While I live
industrial rock, lyrics with male vocal, slow/heavy beat, clear diction, minimal distortion, include [intro/outro/chorus/verse/breaks] in brackets, tempo ~90 bpm.
While I live
industrial rock, lyrics with male vocal, slow/heavy beat, clear diction, minimal distortion, include [intro/outro/chorus/verse/breaks] in brackets, tempo ~90 bpm.
Lyrics
Style: industrial rock, slow/heavy beat, male vocal, clear diction, minimal guitar distortion. Tempo ~90 bpm. Instrumentation: low synth riff, bass, electronic drum machine hits, light reverb. All technical notes in square brackets.
Intro: 8 bars, synth riff + drums gradually building
Verse 1
Since birth I mastered immersion in the socium,
Trolling, bullying, tactics of survival.
The teacher spoke about decay of strontium,
The professor — about denial of denial,
Empirio-criticism of worms,
Variability of dung-heaps,
Catalysts of vulgarity, like ropes
Of career growth.
All credits are passed, and this diploma I’ve launched
With curses, straight into the heavenly cloud.
Each day it grows harder to believe you were raised
For happiness.
Bravura toasts echo more hollow,
Each year their bittersweet falsity’s harder to swallow.
Instrumental break: 4 bars, low synth + light guitar pad
Chorus
Today’s a feast, tomorrow’s hell,
Is there truth, honor, conscience as well?
Where do all the roads lead to, who knows?
Eternal flames or blocks of ice will impose?
Or maybe the City of Gold in the sky?
Don’t care! I live as long as I’m alive!
While I live — I commit sins, I write my lines,
And frivolously blow my days away, light as husks of pines.
Instrumental break: 4 bars, drum machine + synth accent on every second beat
Verse 2
In gloomy courtyards, zombies in human skin,
Dull and all alike, like huskies, they herd in a spin.
The subway grave swallows them by morning light,
And by evening spits out the same in sight.
Cat chants, planetary orbits, falling stars, comet cores…
And spirit, and beast, and man, and shadows from old concrete walls…
The city devours all, and what it cannot chew,
It drowns in the fetid waters of the street rivers, too,
Or burns in the fire of its rotting veins.
The city generously deals — some to prison, some a beggar’s cup,
No one is spared, you never know what life will dump.
It, like a fork in risotto, before sending us to the maw,
Gathers us in a heap, precise as a claw.
That’s why I avoid the crowds, I keep my own accord,
I am one on one with the City, because I am the lord!
Instrumental break: 8 bars, synth + bass, building tension before the chorus
Chorus
Today’s a feast, tomorrow’s hell,
Is there truth, honor, conscience as well?
Where do all the roads lead to, who knows?
Eternal flames or blocks of ice will impose?
Or maybe the City of Gold in the sky?
Don’t care! I live as long as I’m alive!
While I live — I commit sins, I write my lines,
And frivolously blow my days away, light as husks of pines.
Chorus repeat: for climax, 4 bars of synth accent + drums
Outro: 8 bars, gradual fade-out of synth and drum machine, reverb effect on last word “pines”