[Intro]: It's gonna be alright

I'll watch you go to sleep

And now I'm alright

I saw you in a dream

If you're alright

I'll see you on the other side

Of my nightmares

[Verse 1: Coldwave synths, low droning bass, minimalist percussion, low drones, reverb-heavy synths, almost funereal pace. (distant echoes)]:

I walk the streets and the buildings lean,

like cardboard cutouts, hollow scenes.

Faces blur like dying paint,

every voice dissolves, every color is faint.

I swear I’m the last one breathing here,

a shadow king with no one near.

The ground erodes beneath my feet,

and silence gnaws on every street.

[Chorus: Contrast. Layers bloom with shimmering 80s-inspired synths, bright chords, and lush backing vocals: Opens wide with lush, layered 80s-style pads, arpeggiated synths, shimmering highs: (soaring, layered falsetto lead with baritone undercurrent)]:

But the sun still rises, warm and gold,

children laugh, their stories told.

Fresh grass bends beneath the breeze,

but I can’t taste a world at ease.

To me it’s ash, to them it’s spring,

I hear no life in the songs they sing.

[Verse 2: Build up the conflict: Coldwave synths, low droning bass, minimalist percussion (distant echoes)]:

Nine billion souls, yet I stand apart,

a ghost of flesh with a hollow heart.

I see their markets, their lovers kiss,

but all I feel is the void’s abyss.

They plant their gardens, they mend their homes,

I walk through deserts, abandoned zones.

Their hands build futures, their fires burn bright,

mine is a theater with no stage lights.

[Chorus: Opens wide with lush, layered 80s-style pads, arpeggiated synths, shimmering highs: (expanded, layered harmonies)]:

The sun still rises, warm and gold,

meadows bloom, the earth unfolds.

Fresh cut grass perfumes the air,

but I can’t feel that anyone’s there.

To me it’s ruins, to them it’s real,

I only know the rot I feel.

[Bridge: lush instrumentation fighting with crushing industrial tones, call-and-response vocals showing the contrast: (clash of worlds: glitching synths against lush pads)]:

They say that this

This is the greatest show

We watched them all fall down like dominoes

I think I'll sit this one out

I've seen it before

[Backing Voices]: We live, we breathe, we rise, we fall...

[Lead]: I hear nothing, nothing at all.

[Backing]: The streets are alive, the oceans sing...

[Lead]: My world is dust, a broken wing.

[Backing]: We dance, we cry, we carry on...

[Lead]: To me it’s already gone.

[Final Chorus: Opens wide with lush, layered 80s-style pads, arpeggiated synths, shimmering highs. / Collapse]:

The sun still rises, but I see no dawn,

a billion voices, yet I’m withdrawn.

Fresh grass whispers in morning rain,

but I only walk in endless pain.

[Outro / Epilogue: (fading into silence, reverb-heavy falsetto) - :Strip back to ambient drones with falsetto floating over them, fading to silence.]:

So if the world is still alive,

why am I the last to survive?

Nine billion souls, yet none remain...

in my kingdom, only pain.