Unintended Fortunes

Lyrics

[Intro - warped VHS static, detuned synth pads, distant vaporwave vocals, low-pass filter opening slowly]
Mm, yeah...
I didn’t plan this, nah
It just fell through the cracks like cash in the dark
Ha...

[Verse 1 - murky trap drums, glitchy synth stabs, sub-bass rumble, laid-back sinister flow with chopped ad-libs]
I was broke in a room with the lights half dead,
Praying to the screen when the screen went red,
Then the odd little signs started circlin’ back,
Like a black cat grin in a midnight trap.
Found a key in the ash, found a note in the rain,
Found a name on a bill that I never could claim,
Now the luck got teeth and it bites when it calls,
Every “wrong” turn I took had a vault in the walls.

I was sliding through life like a ghost on ice,
Never double-checked once, let the dice roll twice,
And the city got quiet when I passed that block,
Like the street knew my secrets and the clock got stopped.
Saw gold in the glare of a busted neon sign,
Saw a hand in the static like it reached for mine,
Now the fortune sits strange in my palm like sin,
Too slick to keep hold, too bright to begin.

[Pre-Chorus - tension rising, layered whisper harmonies, gated snare rolls, synths swelling with eerie shimmer]
And I swear it came from nowhere,
Like a omen in a dream,
One minute I was drowning,
Next I’m wading through the gleam...
No map, no prayer,
Just a pulse in the machine,
If this is what they call blessed,
Why it feel so mean?

[Chorus - massive dark hook, sidechained bass, chopped vocal chants, distorted harmonies, anthemic but ominous]
Unintended fortunes, falling from the sky,
I never reached for heaven, but it looked me in the eye,
Unintended fortunes, crawling through the night,
Got a pocket full of shadows and a halo made of lies.
Unintended fortunes, twisting what I knew,
Every curse I carried turned to something shining through,
Unintended fortunes, yeah, they came unplanned,
Now I’m dancing with the devil in a dollar-sign trance.

[Verse 2 - colder atmosphere, glitch percussion, reversed pads, bass-heavy flow with eerie doubled vocals]
Now I’m counting up blessings in a room full of smoke,
Laughing at the mirror while the mirror gets broke,
Had a chain on my chest, now the chain got weight,
Like a crown made of static and a lock on fate.
People ask how I did it, I just shrug and grin,
Tell ’em luck got a knife and it cuts from within,
’Cause the minute I won, something else got lost,
Like the price of the glow was the soul in the gloss.

I seen figures in the feed, in the corners of frames,
Every ad on the wall said my government name,
And the bass in the floor kept a heartbeat slow,
Like the house had been breathing through the vents below.
I can’t tell if I’m cursed or I’m finally free,
If the ghost in the mirror is reflecting me,
But the money keep falling like ash from a star,
And it lands in my hands like a wound in the dark.

[Chorus - bigger, more layered, vocal chops and synth arps, heavy low end, hypnotic repetition]
Unintended fortunes, falling from the sky,
I never reached for heaven, but it looked me in the eye,
Unintended fortunes, crawling through the night,
Got a pocket full of shadows and a halo made of lies.
Unintended fortunes, twisting what I knew,
Every curse I carried turned to something shining through,
Unintended fortunes, yeah, they came unplanned,
Now I’m dancing with the devil in a dollar-sign trance.

[Bridge - stripped-back, eerie pads, tape warble, intimate half-sung vocal, ghostly echoes]
If I let it go, would it leave me alone?
If I keep it close, does it turn into stone?
I was never the chosen, just the one left behind,
Now the dark keeps a ledger with my face in the lines...
Mm...
Every gift got a shadow, every shine got a sting,
And the silence gets louder when the fortune starts to sing...

[Outro - fading vaporwave choir, degraded synth wash, gated reverb tail, whispered ad-libs]