[Intro — Dry Heat | Slow, breath-close, airless]
Summer presses its mouth to the glass,
warm and wet and hard to breathe.
The room sweats under your skin,
gold light sticking to your teeth.

No wind.
No mercy.
Only sun shining down on me.

[Verse 1 — Dry Heat → Dark Clouds | Heavy, sensual, suffocating]
The garden hangs its head in bloom,
honey, dust and dry light.
Every flower opens wider
like it wants to be punished by night.

The air lies thick on my back,
soft as sleep, cruel and calm.
Then the sky starts bruising over,
blue turning black without a sound... yet

[Pre-Chorus — Warm Pressure → Distant Thunder | Tension rising, low drums]
Something rolls its bones in the distance.
Something wakes behind the trees.
Your throat goes still.
The leaves turn silver.
The whole world waits on its knees~

[Silent moment, then thunder sfx]

[Chorus — Climax: The Downfall | Full force, rain impact, ecstatic]
Downfall, downfall, wet expressions,
pull the lever in the heavens.
Drag your teeth through the summer air,
strip it clean and strip it bare.

Downfall, downfall, split the heat,
Tear the dust out of its sleep.
Let the warm world drown and clear,
Miry judgment through the atmosphere.

[Instrumental Interlude | 8-16 bars, key shift]

[Verse 2 — Merciless Storm | Driving rhythm, violent cleansing]
Now the rain has found its body,
now it falls in mighty strands.
It beats the roof into confession,
drives the dirt out of the land.

Pollen runs gold in the gutter.
Petals shiver, bend, and tear.
Every breath the summer dirtied
is made anew pure in the air.

[Pre-Chorus 2 — Cleansing of the Air | Hypnotic, ritualistic]
Wash the rot from the branches.
Wash the ache from the stone.
Wash the heat from your mouth
till your breath comes back my own.

[Chorus — Merciless Cleansing | Bigger, colder, more cathartic]
Downfall, downfall, come down hard,
break the fever in the yard.
Drag your teeth through the summer air,
strip it clean and strip it bare.

Downfall, downfall, no soft grace,
cold hands over summer’s face.
Let the warm world drown and clear,
rain like judgment through the atmosphere.

[Bridge — Chrysalis Split | Sparse, intimate, storm inside the voice]
Little shell and little skin,
let the weather crawl in.
What was soft becomes severe,
and what was trapped becomes so clear.
Oh~aaa~aah!

[Final Chorus — The Downfall Complete | Full, overwhelming, beautiful threat]
Downfall, downfall, come through clean,
cut your path through the summer steam.
Take the gold and make it shake,
Renew the breath the heat made ache.

Downfall, downfall, cruel and bright,
make the air learn how to bite.
When the warm world disappears,
leave the freshness in the atmosphere.

[Outro — Fresh Crisp Air, Shy Light Returning | Soft, clear, tender aftermath]
Then silence.
Then dripping leaves.
Then cold air touching everything.

The sky opens one pale eye.
Light comes back, shy and thin.
The world breathes once, clean and new,
and you breathe with it again.