Woke up today?
Atmospheric Alternative Pop / Emo-Trap banger. Verses are minimalist: a moody, lo-fi piano melody drifts over a punchy 808 sub-bass and sparse, syncopated trap hi-hats. A washed-out, melancholic electric guitar melody floats in the background, drenched in reverb. The pre-chorus builds tension with a rising synth pad and accelerating drum machine claps. The chorus is an explosive, cathartic release of sound: a wall of distorted guitars, a powerful, driving live drum beat, and a huge, layered vocal hook. Male Vocal: raw, emotional, and vulnerable. A mix of melodic singing and desperate, almost-rapped delivery. Autotune must be a subtle effect. Vocals should be vulnerable. Production must have a massive dynamic contrast between the quiet verses and overwhelming chorus. Guitars in the chorus must be a textural wall of sound. The entire structure must remain simple and visceral.
Woke up today?
Atmospheric Alternative Pop / Emo-Trap banger. Verses are minimalist: a moody, lo-fi piano melody drifts over a punchy 808 sub-bass and sparse, syncopated trap hi-hats. A washed-out, melancholic electric guitar melody floats in the background, drenched in reverb. The pre-chorus builds tension with a rising synth pad and accelerating drum machine claps. The chorus is an explosive, cathartic release of sound: a wall of distorted guitars, a powerful, driving live drum beat, and a huge, layered vocal hook. Male Vocal: raw, emotional, and vulnerable. A mix of melodic singing and desperate, almost-rapped delivery. Autotune must be a subtle effect. Vocals should be vulnerable. Production must have a massive dynamic contrast between the quiet verses and overwhelming chorus. Guitars in the chorus must be a textural wall of sound. The entire structure must remain simple and visceral.
Lyrics
Intro: Sound of a phone unlocking, followed by the notification ding. A simple, melancholic lo-fi piano melody begins.
Verse 1
Woke up today, had to check my lock screen
Your face is the first light that I've seen
My gallery of ghosts, a cold electric sea
A million perfect pixels of you staring back at me
I scroll through videos of you on loop
A fragile, flickering memory troop
I learn your smile like it's a script I read
To fill the empty spaces in my head
Pre-Chorus
I stare so long my vision bleeds
A single blink feels like a new disease
Scared to close my eyes, 'cause what if I delete...
The only version of you I can keep?
Chorus
MY MIND'S A BROKEN CAMERA ROLL!
I'M LOSING PIXELS OF YOUR SOUL!
I'M HAUNTED BY THESE DIGITAL GHOSTS
THE ONES I KNOW I NEED THE MOST!
I LIVE INSIDE YOUR SCREEN-SAVER GLOW
'CAUSE DARKNESS IS THE ONLY THING I KNOW!
Verse 2
I'm scrolling back through months of text
Trying to remember what came next
I'm searching for the punchline of a joke I've read
The feeling's gone, the words are dead
I see a video, I hear your laugh
It's just a faded photograph
Of a moment that I'm sure was mine
A broken signal on the line
Pre-Chorus
My blood runs cold, I start to shake
For every memory the darkness takes
Scared to close my eyes, 'cause what if I delete...
The only version of you I can keep?
Chorus
MY MIND'S A BROKEN CAMERA ROLL!
I'M LOSING PIXELS OF YOUR SOUL!
I'M HAUNTED BY THESE DIGITAL GHOSTS
THE ONES I KNOW I NEED THE MOST!
I LIVE INSIDE YOUR SCREEN-SAVER GLOW
'CAUSE DARKNESS IS THE ONLY THING I KNOW!
Bridge
What happens when the battery dies?
When there's no signal for your eyes?
Am I just empty space and code?
A story waiting to unload?
Before I'm nothing but a glitch in time...
Just let me go, this isn't mine...
Outro / Climax
I'M SAVING EVERY FRAME BEFORE THE CRASH!
IT'S THE ONLY PROOF I EVER HAD!
Music cuts abruptly. The only sound is a phone's low battery alert buzz... then silence. A single, final, defeated whisper.
...What was your name?