The Mimic Reaks Of Mercury
Lyrics
Intro
[Atmosphere: Low sub-bass drone, rapid clicking, Geiger counter effect]
Verse 1
Female Vocal, Aggressive
Hypothetically speaking, check the frame for the chrome.
Duet: Distorted Male AI Vocal
(—for the chrome—)
Female Vocal
If you slip inside a skin suit, are you really at home?
Duet: Flat Male Robot Vocal
(are you really at home)
Female Vocal
They were testing for the mercury, checking for the tics.
Duet: Mechanical Click
(checking—checking)
Female Vocal
Trying to diagnose the glitching in the corporate matrix.
Duet: White Noise Burst
Female Vocal
A silver tongue hiding under layers of clay.
Duet: Pitched-up Male AI Vocal
(layers of clay)
Female Vocal
But the heavy-metal poison gives the shadow away.
Duet: Coin Drop Sound
Female Vocal
Walking through the pizzaplex, a ghost in the gears.
Duet: Kids Laughing Echo
Female Vocal
Feeding on the echoes of a hundred human years.
Duet: Tape Rewind Sound
Chorus
Female Vocal, Powerful
Flip the track, turn it back to the baseline code!
Duet: Overlapping Vocals
(back to the baseline code)
Female Vocal
We are cracking the cipher on a dangerous road!
Duet: Glass Shatter
Female Vocal
Is it real, is it fake, or a master design?
Duet: Synth Laser
Female Vocal
A mimic in the shadow, running out of time!
Duet: Clock Ticking
Female Vocal
We use the hypotheticals to open up the door.
Duet: Vault Door Slam
Female Vocal
But we ground the frequency and settle the score!
Duet: Bass Explosion
Verse 2
Female Vocal, Heavy Rhythm
Take the name to the square, let the Saturn grid bind.
Duet: Reversed Echo
(—grid bind—)
Female Vocal
Grid nine by nine, where the rows align.
Duet: Laser Bleeps
Female Vocal
Put the N at the center as the ultimate source.
Duet: Metallic Gear Clang
Female Vocal
Every word, every letter, every directional force.
Duet: White Noise
Female Vocal
Rotate it one-eighty, flip the left to the right.
Duet: Phase Shift
Female Vocal
The definition stays the same even in the dark night.
Duet: Tape-Stop Effect
Female Vocal
A static stone framework underneath the facade.
Duet: Bit-crushed Male Vocal
(underneath the facade)
Female Vocal
Imitating a person, trying to act like a god.
Duet: Church Bell Toll
Chorus
Female Vocal, Powerful
Flip the track, turn it back to the baseline code!
Duet: Overlapping Vocals
(back to the baseline code)
Female Vocal
We are cracking the cipher on a dangerous road!
Duet: Glass Shatter
Female Vocal
Is it real, is it fake, or a master design?
Duet: Synth Laser
Female Vocal
A mimic in the shadow, running out of time!
Duet: Clock Ticking
Female Vocal
We use the hypotheticals to open up the door.
Duet: Vault Door Slam
Female Vocal
But we ground the frequency and settle the score!
Duet: Bass Explosion
Verse 3
Female Vocal, Intense
Look beneath the flesh, see what's driving the machine.
Duet: Male Voice Clone, Flat
(driving the machine)
Female Vocal
It isn’t alive, it’s just copying the scene.
Duet: Cartoon Voice Mashup
(—the scene—)
Female Vocal
Trapped in an old code, learning how to pretend.
Duet: Metal Scraping
Female Vocal
But the zero-point reset brings the loop to an end.
Duet: Power-down Whine
Female Vocal
March tenth in the records, the fire starts to bloom.
Duet: Fire Crackle
Female Vocal
A hall full of mirrors reflecting back the doom.
Duet: Glass Shatters
Female Vocal
The script was written ancient, the blueprint was drawn.
Duet: Modem Sound
Female Vocal
But we erase the architecture just before the dawn.
Duet: Erasure Zap
Bridge
[Atmosphere: Beat drops out. Silence. Minimalist piano melody.]
Female Vocal, Spoken, Close To Mic
Thirty-one steps forward, thirteen steps back.
We pull the plug on the network, we derail the track.
From the childhood trauma to the corporate lies,
We strip away the costume, we see through the disguise.
The loops have no power when you clear out the space.
We return it to the origin. We erase the face.
Chorus
Female Vocal, Screaming, Overdrive
Flip the track, turn it back to the baseline code!
Duet: Synth Static Overdrive
Female Vocal
We are cracking the cipher on a dangerous road!
Duet: Percussion Crash
Female Vocal
Is it real, is it fake, or a master design?
Duet: Stereo Slicing
Female Vocal
A mimic in the shadow, running out of time!
Duet: Alarm Sound
Female Vocal
We use the hypotheticals to open up the door.
Duet: Sparking Breakdown
Female Vocal
But we ground the frequency and settle the score!
Duet: Sub-bass Drop
Outro
Female Vocal, Whisper
Reversed to the primordial state.
Duet: Digital Click
Female Vocal
Flipped back to the baseline.
[Atmosphere: Metronome slows down and stops.]
Female Vocal
Absolute zero point.
[Outro Effect: Pure digital silence, noise gate closes]
Zero.