[Intro]
Entering the strange range
(Stranger than fiction)
Fact attack
(Humanity’s contradiction)
[Verse 1]
Signals in the static, lines in the noise
Truth bends quietly between the choice
What we remember, what we deny
All stitched together in a flickering sky
Paper-thin logic, folding in on itself
Stories on stories stacked up on a shelf
We call it order, we call it sane
But it’s just patterns we can’t explain
[Pre-Chorus]
Step through the mirror, don’t ask why
(Reflections answer with a borrowed lie)
Every conclusion starts to unwind
(When the edges blur of space and time)
[Chorus]
Factual prediction
(Stranger than fiction)
Actual realization
(Stranger than fiction)
Lines get crossed in repetition
(Lost in coded recognition)
We are the glitch in definition
(Stranger than fiction)
[Verse 2]
Memories rewritten in real time haze
Future looks back through a fractured gaze
Every certainty starts to decay
Like ink in water washing away
Names lose meaning, faces shift
Gravity feels like a subtle drift
What was solid becomes unsure
In the architecture of not secure
[Pre-Chorus]
Logic dissolves in the fading glow
(Where do we end? We don’t quite know)
Every answer breeds another disguise
(Hidden in plain sight before our eyes)
[Chorus]
Factual prediction
(Stranger than fiction)
Actual realization
(Stranger than fiction)
We build belief from contradiction
(Truth erodes in a constant fiction transition)
Living inside our own depiction
(Stranger than fiction)
[Bridge – Whispered Vocals, Minimal Piano, Distant Sub-Bass]
If this is real, then what is fake?
(What’s at stake, who is awake?)
The question bends, the answers fade
(Inside the maze that we made)
[Final Chorus – Full Arrangement, Driving Drums, Layered Vocals, Distorted Guitar Lead]
Factual prediction
(Stranger than fiction)
Actual realization
(Stranger than fiction)
No beginning, no restriction
(Only infinite recursion)
We are the story’s inscription
(Stranger than fiction)
[Outro]
Heartbeat slows into static air
(Siren dissolves, nothing is there)
Only echoes of what we thought we knew
(And the fiction that became true)
[Intro]
[Soft Whisper, Echoed]
Is it you… or the view…?
[Glass Tap, Subtle Crack Sound]
One step closer…
[Verse 1]
You framed the world in a perfect line
Cut out the noise, called it “mine”
Edges sharp where doubt should be
Locked it down so you could see
Every answer fit the mold
Every story neatly told
Nothing left to rearrange
Truth reduced to something strange
[Pre-Chorus]
But every mirror bends the light
Just enough to feel like right
Tilt it once, then tilt again
Now you can’t tell where you’ve been
[Chorus]
Through the looking glass
(Pass)
Threw the looking glass
(Smash)
Crossed the line you couldn’t see
Now you’re stuck in what you believe
Through the looking glass
(Pass)
Threw the looking glass
(Smash)
Shattered truth into your view
Now it only reflects you
[Verse 2]
Every crack became a frame
Every fracture shaped the same
Pieces pointing back at you
Like it’s all you ever knew
Voices fade that don’t align
Out of sight and out of mind
What was wide is closing fast
Trapped inside your looking glass
[Pre-Chorus]
You don’t notice as it grows
How the narrow current flows
Every thought begins to bend
Toward the same familiar end
[Chorus]
Through the looking glass
(Pass)
Threw the looking glass
(Smash)
Built a world you can’t escape
Every edge a mirrored shape
Through the looking glass
(Pass)
Threw the looking glass
(Smash)
Truth is filtered, bent, and cast
On the other side you’re fast…
[Bridge – Minimal Piano, Distant Echoes]
Did you cross… or did you throw…
The only way you used to know?
Was it truth… or just the frame…
That slowly rewrote every name?
[Breakdown – Whispered, Fragmented]
Pass…
Smash…
Pass…
Smash…
[Final Chorus – Full Build, Layered Vocals, Rising Intensity]
Through the looking glass
(Pass)
Threw the looking glass
(Smash)
No return to what was clear
Only reflections drawing near
Through the looking glass
(Pass)
Threw the looking glass
(Smash)
Every shard becomes your past
And you’re living in the glass
[Outro]
Was it something you went through…
Or something that you threw…
[Intro]
Transformation (Acceleration)
Energy rising, feel the shift begin
Invisible motion underneath the skin
Locked in place now breaking free
Changing form inevitably
Add a little heat to the state we know
Watch the transformation start to flow
Transformation (Acceleration)
[Chorus]
It changed from solid to liquid
(It did)
Then it did pass to gas
(Real fast)
Turned the phase like a pivot
(No lid)
Now the cycle won’t last
(Too fast)
Transformation (Acceleration)
[Verse 1]
Ice at the margins starting to weep
Secrets it held no longer to keep
Edges dissolve into silver streams
Breaking apart at the seams
Energy stored now finding release
Order gives way, structure to peace
Molecules dancing faster in line
Crossing the phase design
[Pre-Chorus]
One degree turns into more
Than the system knew before
Every shift unlocks the gate
Changing faster than we rate
Transformation (Acceleration)
[Chorus]
It changed from solid to liquid
(It did)
Then it did pass to gas
(Real fast)
Turned the phase like a pivot
(No lid)
Now the cycle won’t last
(Too fast)
[Verse 2]
Air grows heavy though unseen
Loaded with what used to be clean
Oceans exhale into the sky
Tracing the reasons why
Forests release through leaf and vein
Feeding the cycle again and again
Evaporation rising high
Writing it across the sky
[Pre-Chorus]
Warmer air can hold it tight
Carrying more day and night
Every loop begins to stack
Pushing forward, no way back
Transformation (Acceleration)
[Bridge]
The rate
(Of change in state)
Won’t wait
(It accelerates)
More heat
(No retreat)
Repeat
(The feedback loop complete)
Transformation (Acceleration)
[Breakdown – Minimal, Echoed Vocals, Sparse Piano]
Solid… liquid… gas…
Nothing stays… nothing lasts…
Transformation (Acceleration)
[Final Chorus – Full Arrangement, Driving Drums, Layered Harmonies]
It changed from solid to liquid
(It did)
Then it did pass to gas
(Real fast)
No reversal once you tip it
(No grid)
Now the change will amass
(So vast)
It changed from solid to liquid
(It did)
Then it did pass to gas
(Real fast)
Every shift becomes explicit
(No hid)
As the future meets the past
(Too fast)
[Outro]
From frozen form to open air
A simple shift beyond repair
Scaled across the land and sea
It shapes what was… and what will be…
Transformation (Acceleration)
[Intro]
A line forms where the oceans breathe
Carrying more than we can see
Invisible currents drifting high
A hidden river in the sky
[Verse 1]
Rising heat from the open sea
Lifts the vapor invisibly
Drawn together in a band
Stretching far across the land
Pressure falls and the pathway bends
Storms align like old-time friends
What was rare is here again
And stronger than it’s ever been
[Pre-Chorus]
You can feel it in the air tonight
Something building out of sight
Heavy clouds begin to cry
From a river in the sky
[Chorus]
It’s a stranger than fiction
(Situation)
Come on do you wonder why
(There’s a river in the sky)
Supercharged transmission
(Acceleration)
Flowing where the winds comply
(Like a river in the sky)
[Verse 2]
Warmer waters feed the stream
More than ever once we’ve seen
Air holds tighter, won’t let go
Loading up the overflow
Mountains catch the moving mass
Squeeze it out as systems pass
What once fell as gentle rain
Now returns with force and strain
[Pre-Chorus]
Every cycle amplifies
What we see before our eyes
Frequency begins to climb
And intensity with time
[Chorus]
It’s a stranger than fiction
(Situation)
Come on do you wonder why
(There’s a river in the sky)
Supercharged transmission
(Acceleration)
Flowing where the winds comply
(Like a river in the sky)
[Bridge – Minimal Piano, Low Bass, Distant Thunder]
It’s not just chance, it’s not surprise
It’s written in the warming skies
More heat, more vapor, more release
A cycle that will not decrease
Stretching wide from sea to shore
Carrying more… and more… and more…
[Final Chorus – Full Arrangement, Driving Drums, Layered Vocals]
It’s a stranger than fiction
(Situation)
Come on do you wonder why
(There’s a river in the sky)
No longer rare condition
(Amplification)
Now we watch the levels rise
(From a river in the sky)
[Outro]
From vapor trails to falling streams
A cycle shifting at the seams
What we release, returns nearby
As a river in the sky
(Watching dreams fall apart at the seams)
… so it seems…
(Watching scenes ripping at the seams)
… so it seems…
About the Song (Scientific Context)
“River in the Sky” refers to atmospheric rivers—long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor that move through the atmosphere, often transporting as much water as major terrestrial rivers.
As global temperatures rise due to climate change:
* Warmer air holds more moisture (about ~7% more per °C, per the Clausius–Clapeyron relationship).
* Ocean evaporation increases, feeding more water vapor into the atmosphere.
* This leads to stronger and more moisture-laden atmospheric rivers.
When these systems make landfall—especially near mountains—they release intense precipitation, increasing the risk of flooding, landslides, and extreme rainfall events.
Research shows that atmospheric rivers are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting, and more intense, particularly on the U.S. West Coast and in other mid-latitude regions, including Pennsylvania.
The song captures this accelerating hydrological feedback loop, where added heat leads to more vapor, which in turn contributes to more extreme weather—making what once seemed unusual now increasingly common.
[Intro]
Feel it building in the air tonight…
Tiny sparks in flashing light…
Zip… zap…
(That’s where we’re at)
[Verse 1]
Hair stands up, you feel the charge
Little signals going large
Jumping gaps you cannot see
Invisible velocity
Friction builds from move to move
Energy finds its groove
Tiny currents start to race
Dancing through electric space
[Pre-Chorus]
Hold it in—then let it go
Watch the current start to flow
Every pulse begins to stack
No return, no turning back
[Chorus]
Zip-zap
(Can you imagine that)
Static
(Electricity)
Feedback lap
(Snap and spat)
Can you imagine that
(Zip-zap)
[Verse 2]
Lightning thinking on the fly
Cracks a line across the sky
Charge divides, then reunites
Flashing fast in jagged lights
Every spark a story told
Hot and fast, then gone cold
But for a moment, pure release
Chaos finds a kind of peace
[Pre-Chorus]
Build it up, then overflow
Let the energy just go
Every flicker, every snap
Adds another feedback lap
[Chorus]
Zip-zap
(Can you imagine that)
Static
(Electricity)
Feedback lap
(Snap and spat)
Can you imagine that
(Zip-zap)
[Bridge – Breakdown, Minimal Beat, Vocal Effects]
Crackle… pop… don’t stop…
Feel the current drop then hop…
Positive… negative… collide…
Nowhere left for charge to hide…
[Final Chorus – Full Energy, Layered Vocals]
Zip-zap
(Can you imagine that)
Static
(Electricity)
Feedback lap
(Snap and spat)
Can you imagine that
(Zip-zap)
Zip-zap
(Running through the grid)
Static
(Everywhere it hid)
Feedback lap
(Just like that)
Can you imagine that
(Zip-zap)
[Outro]
From silent charge to sudden spark…
A flash of light inside the dark…
Zip… zap…
[Intro]
Roll the tape…
(Primal ape)
Don’t look away…
(It’s your lucky day)
[Verse 1]
It started quiet, too quiet to hear
Like something smiling just out of fear
Fields went still, the sky went gray
As the light forgot how to stay
The fences bent in unnatural ways
Corn stalks whispering forgotten phase
Something moved where nothing should be
Another cut from reality
[Pre-Chorus]
Every shadow learned to crawl
Every silence started to call
And the camera never blinked at all
[Chorus]
You would’ve thought
This was a horror flick
(Some tragedy shtick)
The farm was bought
From some sci-fi creature
(Turned into a feature)
Presentation
(Stranger than fiction)
Caught between fact and hallucination
(Editing distortion)
[Verse 2]
The soil remembers what was before
Something knocking beneath the floor
Harvest grows in a different shape
Our reality can’t escape
Lights flicker in a scripted frame
But nobody called the name
Actors frozen mid-line read
As the scene begins to bleed
[Pre-Chorus]
The script rewrites itself in fear
Every ending drawing near
But the beginning isn’t clear
[Chorus]
You would’ve thought
This was a horror flick
(Some tragedy shtick)
The farm was bought
From some sci-fi creature
(Turned into a feature)
Set design
(Stranger than fiction)
Blurring lines of space and time
(Through glitchy prediction)
[Bridge – Whispered Vocals, Sparse Piano, Low Drone]
Cut…
Don’t cut…
It’s still rolling…
Or is it not…?
The audience is in the frame
But nobody called their name
[Final Chorus – Full Cinematic Power]
You would’ve thought
This was a horror flick
(Some tragedy shtick)
The farm was bought
From some sci-fi creature
(Turned into a feature)
Projection
(Stranger than fiction)
Reality in disconnection
(Looped repetition)
Final section
(No clear distinction)
Just a fading transmission
[Outro]
The screen goes black…
(Darkness attack)
But it’s still rolling somewhere…
(Where?)
Still rolling…
(Rolling, rolling, rolling)
[Intro]
Yo! Look out Tokyo
(Are you ready to go?)
Heave ho
(The ground begins to glow)
[Verse 1]
Steel bends under shadowed weight
Skyline fractures, seals its fate
Something ancient, something new
Breaking through the concrete blue
Footsteps echo like falling stone
A force that walks but feels like drone
No divine hand guiding its flame
Just chaos wearing a name
[Pre-Chorus]
No prayer, no plan, no guiding light
Just endless force in endless night
What it destroys, it doesn’t know
It only moves… and lets it go
[Chorus]
Godless (Zilla! God!)
(Trampling out life)
Godless (Zilla! God!)
Bringing on strife
Godless (Zilla! God!)
Harbinger of evil
(Bringer until)
Freewill
(Crushed beneath the seismic thrill)
[Verse 2]
Searchlights cut through dust and flame
Calling out a nameless name
Science fails to hold the line
Between destruction and design
Cities shake like fragile thought
All resistance comes to naught
Every tower, every wall
Learns how quickly giants fall
[Pre-Chorus]
No meaning carved in stone or sky
No reason left to ask it why
Just motion without any goal
A force that swallows whole
[Chorus]
Godless (Zilla! God!)
(Trampling out life)
Godless (Zilla! God!)
Bringing on strife
Godless (Zilla! God!)
Harbinger of evil
(Bringer until)
Freewill
(The cost of standing still)
[Bridge – Slow Tempo, Echoed Vocals, Minimal Organ]
Is it wrath or is it void?
Something born or something destroyed?
We name it fear to understand
But it leaves no master plan
No god above it
No god behind it
Just the echo of a world that designed it
[Final Chorus – Full Power, Choir + Heavy Band, Explosive Energy]
Godless (Zilla! God!)
(Trampling out life)
Godless (Zilla! God!)
Bringing on strife
Godless (Zilla! God!)
End of illusion
(Born from confusion)
Freewill
(Drowned in the seismic chill)
Godless (Zilla! God!)
No redemption thrill
Only will…
Of the unstoppable still
[Outro]
The skyline falls… the echoes stay…
(No god remains to guide the way…)
Just dust… and silence… after will…
(Where motion was… it lingers still…)
Ah, ah, zilla
(Nevertheless godless)
Ah, ah, zilla
Godless (Zilla! God!)
God (zilla)
[Intro]
Look! Up in the air
(Right there… the latest scare)
Yeah…
(Yeah, yeah)
From nothing… to something… maybe too much…
(And such)
[Verse 1]
Started out crawling in the dust of the street
No rhythm in the walk, no heat in the beat
Talked big dreams with a broken tone
But never really built it on their own
Always pointing fingers at the sky
Blaming the world for the reason why
Nothing ever seemed to stick
Just another shortcut trick
[Pre-Chorus]
Then somebody flipped the frame
Rebranded the blame
Gave it a mask, gave it a name
And suddenly everything changed
[Chorus]
You took a down and dirty
(Nitty gritty)
No good loser
(Wanna be poser)
And turned ’em into a super power
(The aftertaste is sour)
Built up fast, but it won’t empower
(Just a hollow tower)
[Verse 2]
Now they walk like they own the place
Same old story, different face
Confidence stitched from borrowed thread
Echoing words someone else said
Crowds gather like it’s all real
But nobody’s sure what they should feel
Shiny surface, shaky ground
Truth gets lost in the sound
[Pre-Chorus]
Every myth needs a spark
Even if it’s just in the dark
Turn a weakness into disguise
Sell the story, watch it rise
[Chorus]
You took a down and dirty
(Nitty gritty)
No good loser
(Wanna be poser)
And turned ’em into a super power
(The aftertaste is sour)
Built it high in a single hour
(But it won’t empower)
[Bridge]
Such a contradiction
(Is stranger than fiction)
Power born from imitation
Masked in self-declaration
Truth and image start to blur
What they are and what they were
[Breakdown – Minimal Beat, Echoed Vocals]
Super… power…
Or just borrowed hours…
Super… power…
Built on crumbling towers…
[Final Chorus – Full Band, Heavy Drums, Layered Vocals]
You took a down and dirty
(Nitty gritty)
No good loser
(Wanna be poser)
And turned ’em into a super power
(The aftertaste is sour)
Every rise comes with a counter
(Truth gets louder)
What was weak becomes a flower
(But it still won’t empower)
[Outro]
From nothing dressed up as something new…
A super power built on what isn’t true…
[Intro]
They built with brick and river clay
A rising world that would not sway
From north to south the grain would flow
A kingdom vast, a steady glow
But something shifted in the sky…
[Verse 1]
Canals stretched veins across the land
Guided water by human hand
Fields once green beneath the sun
Fed the many from the one
Northern winds carried the yield
Bread and barley from the field
Cities rose on surplus grown
Strength was something widely known
[Pre-Chorus]
But clouds grew thin, the rivers slowed
A silent change no one foretold
The balance tipped without a sound
As cracks appeared beneath the ground
[Refrain]
The Curse of Akkad
(To the worse add)
The thick clouds will not rain
(Nothing we do will sustain)
The Curse of Akkad
(To the worse add)
The fields (will not yield)
The Curse of Akkad
(To the worse add)
No syrup. Yup, no wine
(Whine:)
All is not fine
[Verse 2]
Orchards withered branch by branch
Empty nets where fish once danced
Irrigated lines ran dry
Dust replaced the river’s cry
Granaries began to thin
Silence where there once was din
What was stored could not outlast
The tightening grip of seasons passed
[Pre-Chorus]
Year by year the pattern stayed
Hope deferred and plans delayed
No relief from sky or stream
Breaking more than just a dream
[Refrain]
The Curse of Akkad
(To the worse add)
The thick clouds will not rain
(Nothing we do will sustain)
The Curse of Akkad
(To the worse add)
The fields (will not yield)
The Curse of Akkad
(To the worse add)
No syrup. Yup, no wine
(Whine:)
All is not fine
[Bridge]
From the north the people came
Driven not by war or fame
But by hunger, thirst, and need
Following where they could feed
Walls were raised from fear and strain
Between the rivers’ ancient plain
Holding back what could not stay
As the system gave away
[Breakdown – Minimal, Whispered Vocals]
No grain…
No rain…
No river remains…
[Final Refrain – Full, Layered Voices, Heavy Drums]
The Curse of Akkad
(To the worse add)
The thick clouds will not rain
(Nothing we do will sustain)
The Curse of Akkad
(To the worse add)
The fields (will not yield)
The Curse of Akkad
(To the worse add)
No syrup. Yup, no wine
(Whine:)
All is not fine
[Outro]
[Wind, Fading Drum, Distant Echo]
What was built to stand through time
Fell not to sword, but slow decline
A lesson written in dust and sand—
Even the strongest yield to land…
About the Song (Scientific Context)
“The Curse of Akkad” reflects the collapse of early complex societies under environmental stress. While irrigation and centralized systems increased resilience, they also created dependence on stable climate conditions and regional agricultural surpluses.
Around 4,200 years ago, a major climate shift brought prolonged drought across the Middle East. Evidence suggests reduced rainfall, possibly linked to volcanic activity and broader atmospheric changes, disrupted food production—especially in northern Mesopotamia, a key agricultural hub.
As crop yields failed, supply chains collapsed, leading to famine, migration, and social conflict. The movement of populations southward likely intensified tensions, prompting defensive measures such as large-scale walls between the Tigris and Euphrates.
The song captures a key idea: resilience can delay collapse—but when environmental thresholds are crossed, interconnected systems can fail rapidly and simultaneously.
[Intro]
Swingin’ through the canopy, rules don’t apply
Banana republic under blackened sky
Who’s calling shots from the tallest tree?
You don’t need a crown—just a loud decree
[Verse 1]
Clappin’ hands, got a rhythm so wild
Half wise elder, half reckless child
Talkin’ big from a vine-made throne
Every echo says he’s not alone
Deals in coconuts, trades in harm
Keeps the jungle under his arm
Smiles wide with a sideways grin
You never know what game he’s in
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, I’m starting to see
(He’s the head monkey)
Pullin’ strings through the canopy
(Calls it all lucky)
[Chorus]
King Louie
(Orange orangutan)
Real screwy
(No, not human)
King Louie
(Rules the jungle clan)
Acts screwy
(Doing harm the way man can)
[Verse 2]
Got a council of chatter and swing
Every branch offers the same thing
As Louie laughs from high above
Says hatred will reign over love
Writes the rules then he rewrites fast
Future tangled up with the past
Promises hanging by a vine
Break one, say it’s by design
[Pre-Chorus]
Now it’s plain to me
(He’s the head monkey)
Bends the truth so easily
(Calls it all lucky)
[Chorus]
King Louie
(Orange orangutan)
Real screwy
(No, not human)
King Louie
(Runs the jungle plan)
Acts screwy
(Screwin’ man the best he can)
[Bridge – Breakdown, Minimal Percussion, Finger Snaps]
Swing high, swing low
Truth moves fast, lies move slow
Laugh it off, steal the show
Where it stops, nobody knows
[Build – Brass Hits, Rising Rhythm]
Is it power or parody?
Just a jungle anomaly?
[Chorus – Full Band, Bigger Energy]
King Louie
(Orange orangutan)
Real screwy
(No, not human)
King Louie
(Top of jungle span)
Acts screwy
(Throwing feces at man)
[Outro]
From the treetops to the ground
Every whisper, every sound
Carries stories twisted free
Of what is… and what might be
[Spoken/Whispered]
“He’s the head monkey…”
[Intro]
A breath between the noise…
A pause before the choice…
(Raise your voice!)
[Verse 1]
Words like sparks in a dry old field
Burning faster than wounds can heal
(Wildfire burnin’ higher)
Every echo turns into flame
But nobody’s winning this game
(Wildfire burnin’ higher)
We build our walls out of yesterday
(Stacking fears in a fragile way)
Each side shouting louder still
(Until silence bends to will)
[Pre-Chorus]
But underneath the breaking sound
There’s still some common ground
If we listen, peace defend
Maybe this is not the end
[Refrain]
If it’s not too late
Can we negate hate
(Negate hate)
Because at this rate
We’re casting our fate
(Irate state)
Negate (hate)
Alleviate
Before it’s too late
(Change the state)
[Chorus]
Turn the fracture into space
Let the anger lose its place
Not erase what came before
But not repeat it anymore
We don’t win by standing still
We don’t heal by bending will
We just find a different way
To reshape what we say
[Verse 2]
History carved into every tone
Echoes in how we’ve grown
Somewhere between blame and truth
We lost the thread in our youth
But even now in fractured air
There are still hands reaching there
Not to fight, not to defend
But to try to comprehend
[Pre-Chorus]
Every cycle can unwind
If we choose a different line
Not erase, but reframe
Not the same, not the same
[Refrain]
If it’s not too late
Can we negate hate
(Negate hate)
Because at this rate
We’re casting our fate
(Irate state)
Negate (hate)
Alleviate
Find a way to translate
(Not instigate)
[Bridge]
What if power is not control?
What if healing is the goal?
What if we could learn to see
We’re not as far apart as we believe
(We can relieve!)
[Final Chorus – Full Arrangement, Rising Vocals]
Turn the fracture into space
Let the anger lose its place
Not erase what came before
But not repeat it anymore
We don’t win by standing still
We don’t heal by force of will
We just learn another way
To negate what hate can say
[Outro]
Negate…
Alleviate…
Not too late…
If we choose… to change the state…
(Put love above)
[Intro]
Say it again…
But say it like you mean it…
(Where’ to begin…)
[Verse 1]
You walked in late with a borrowed line
Stitched together just in time
Eyes won’t hold, they drift aside
Like there’s something left to hide
Every word just slightly off
Like a mask about to drop
Too rehearsed, too clean, too fast
Like it wasn’t built to last
[Pre-Chorus]
I can hear it in your tone
You’re not standing on your own
Every pause gives you away
More than anything you say
[Chorus]
Makeshift alibi
(Why even bother to try?)
Makeshift alibi
(Enough to make me cry)
Paper-thin disguise
(Falling right before my eyes)
Makeshift alibi
(There’s no truth you can deny)
[Verse 2]
Now the story starts to bend
Every sentence needs a friend
Cover one, uncover two
Nothing’s lining up with you
Fragments falling out of place
Truth is written on your face
Even silence speaks out loud
Through the cracks you can’t cloud
[Pre-Chorus]
Every step you try to take
Leads you deeper in the fake
You can build it up so high
But it’s still a makeshift lie
[Chorus]
Makeshift alibi
(Why even bother to try?)
Makeshift alibi
(Enough to make me cry)
Stacking up your replies
(But they’re easy to deny)
Makeshift alibi
(A universal sigh)
[Bridge – Minimal Piano, Low Drone, Slow Tempo]
If you just said what was real
Maybe something we could heal
But you chose the “easy” way
Now there’s nothing left to say
[Breakdown – Whispered Vocals, Sparse Beat]
Try…
Deny…
But the truth won’t comply…
[Final Chorus – Full Band, Emotional Peak]
Makeshift alibi
(No more reason to comply)
Makeshift alibi
(Nothing left to justify)
All your words run dry
(Underneath a clearer sky)
Makeshift alibi
(Now there’s nowhere left to hide)
[Outro]
Let’s see the inside
I didn’t even pry…
Why the makeshift alibi…
(Makeshift alibi… bye… bye)
[Intro]
One wall… becomes two…
(None too few)
Then multiplies…
(… like flies)
[Beat drops]
[Verse 1]
Lines drawn hard across the ground
“No way through” is the only sound
Every path gets shut down tight
Turning day into endless night
What was open starts to close
Every answer overdosed
Stack it up, reinforce
Block the flow, deny the course
[Pre-Chorus]
Every barrier you create
Only amplifies the weight
One becomes a mirrored view
Now it’s doubled coming through
[Bridge]
I see your blockade
(Ace of spades)
And raise you to two (too)
Blockade (Blockade)
Double down, divide the space
Watch it multiply in place
[Chorus]
Blockade
(Raised to the state)
…of confusion
Blockade (Blockade)
An insane
(Criminal institution)
Disdain
(For evolution)
Blockade (Blockade)
All hopes fade
Blockade (Blockade)
[Verse 2]
Walls on walls, no room to move
Nothing left to disapprove
Every door gets locked in line
Echoes of a grand design
Logic trapped inside the frame
Every rule repeats the same
What was once a single line
Now expands and intertwines
[Pre-Chorus]
Every push becomes a shove
Every “below” becomes “above”
Mirror systems feed the loop
Building up the doubled group
[Bridge]
I see your blockade
(Ace of spades)
And raise you to two (too)
Blockade (Blockade)
Squared away but out of hand
Now it spreads across the land
[Chorus]
Blockade
(Raised to the state)
…of confusion
Blockade (Blockade)
An insane
(Criminal institution)
Disdain
(For evolution)
Blockade (Blockade)
All hopes fade
Blockade (Blockade)
[Breakdown – Minimal Beat, Echoed Vocals]
One… becomes two…
Two… becomes more…
Block the path…
Then block the door…
[Final Chorus – Full Intensity, Layered Vocals]
Blockade
(Raised to the state)
…of confusion
Blockade (Blockade)
System made
(Self-collusion)
Decay
(In conclusion)
Blockade (Blockade)
All hopes fade
Blockade (Blockade)
[Outro]
What you built to keep things out…
Now keeps you in… without a doubt…
[Intro]
Words fall heavy in the air…
But none of them are really there…
[Verse 1]
You built your world on shifting sand
Truth slipping through your hand
Every promise, every line
Twisted further every time
Faces change but not the game
Different words, same old blame
Every answer breaks apart
Before it even has a start
[Pre-Chorus]
You keep spinning what you say
‘Til meaning drifts away
But the echoes still remain
Calling out through all the pain
[Refrain]
Lie after lie
(You don’t even try)
To say what’s true
(You never do)
It’s time to come clean
(Know what I mean)
Come and be upright
(When confronted with the light)
[Chorus]
Stacking shadows in the air
Like truth was never there
Every word becomes a mask
Hiding what we didn’t ask
Lie after lie
Till the reasons all run dry
No more hiding in disguise
When the truth is in your eyes
[Verse 2]
Every story bends and folds
Turning silver into gold
But the shine begins to fade
In the mess that you have made
What you built can’t stand for long
When the foundation’s wrong
Even silence starts to speak
When the structure turns too weak
[Pre-Chorus]
And the weight of what you’ve said
Echoes louder in your head
No more running from the past
It was never meant to last
[Refrain]
Lie after lie
(You don’t even try)
To say what’s true
(You never do)
It’s time to come clean
(Know what I mean)
Come and be upright
(When confronted with the light)
[Bridge]
No more hiding in the shade
No more deals that you have made
Every mask begins to fall
When honesty is standing tall
What remains when lies are gone?
Can you finally move on?
[Final Chorus – Full Band, Driving Drums, Layered Vocals]
Lie after lie
Now the silence tells you why
All the fiction, all the disguise
Fades out in a final sigh
Lie after lie
But the truth will still survive
Even after all your tries
It’s still there when everything dies
[Outro]
No more lies to amplify…
Just the truth you can’t deny…
[Intro]
They said it would never happen…
But then again, they said a lot of things…
[Verse 1]
Out in the sky where the rumors go
Past the places we think we know
Something’s flipping the rules around
Upside logic, skyward bound
Barnyard legends breaking free
Defying gravity casually
Wings or will or just pure spite
Taking off in plain daylight
[Pre-Chorus]
Shake your head but don’t deny
You just saw one pass you by
Truth gets weird when vision shifts
Reality starts doing flips
[Chorus]
Flying pigs
(Doing aerial jigs)
Have you seen stranger things
(Flying with wings)
Barnyard myths on silver springs
(Loop-de-looping everything)
Now you know why
(You hear them say)
When pigs can fly
(That’ll be the day)
But here they are
(Up in the sky)
So don’t be shocked
Just blink and try
[Verse 2]
Farm below in disbelief
Rubbed their eyes in shared relief
Some called magic, some called joke
Some just stared and quietly spoke
“Guess the world has changed its tune”
Underneath a rising moon
Even logic takes a break
When impossible’s awake
[Pre-Chorus]
Every rule begins to bend
Every ending has a friend
What was fixed is up and gone
Now it’s flying all along
[Chorus]
Flying pigs
(Doing aerial jigs)
Have you seen stranger things
(Flying with wings)
Even doubt begins to swing
(As they loop through everything)
Now you know why
(You hear them say)
When pigs can fly
(That’ll be the day)
But look again
(They’re passing by)
So maybe truth
Just learned to fly
[Bridge – Soft Jazz Breakdown, Upright Bass Solo]
If the ground can lose its hold
And stories start to grow bold
Then maybe “impossible”
Was just mislabeled all along
[Final Chorus – Big, Joyful, Full Band Swing]
Flying pigs
(Doing aerial jigs)
Reality’s doing flips
(On unpredictable trips)
Sky is full of little myths
(That no longer fit the scripts)
Now you know why
(You hear them say)
When pigs can fly
(That’ll be the day)
But here they soar
(Above the fray)
Guess “never” just got updated today
[Outro]
If pigs can fly…
What else might try…
(They say today)
… it’s do or die.
[Intro]
(Oh… oh…)
[Refrain – half-time groove, sparse drums, echoing vocals]
(Oh, no, no!)
Thundersnow
(Threatening winter sky)
What the hell
(Baseball hail)
Does it make you wonder why
[Verse 1 – steady beat, pulsing bass, muted guitar chops]
Summer heat in April air
Ice falls hard from nowhere
Sirens cry, the sky turns green
Like something from a fever dream
Lightning cracks through falling snow
Storms we used to never know
Seasons blur and lines all bend
Patterns break we can’t pretend
[Pre-Chorus – drums open up, layered vocals swell]
Watch the pressure rise again
Read the signs, don’t just pretend
[Chorus – full band, driving rhythm, big harmonies]
Man presents:
(Freak events!)
Freaks of nature
(No longer future)
Watch it rise
(Warning signs!)
All around you
(Coming true)
[Verse 2 – heavier groove, distorted guitar added]
Rivers swell and coastlines shake
Drought then floods in one heartbeat
Winds that howl at hurricane pace
Tearing time and tearing space
Heat that lingers through the night
Cities glowing, no relief in sight
What was rare now takes the stage
Front page storms in a modern age
[Pre-Chorus – layered chants, tension builds again]
Numbers climbing, year by year
All the signals crystal clear
[Chorus – bigger, more aggressive, stacked vocals]
Man presents:
(Freak events!)
Freaks of nature
(No longer future)
Read the signs
(Connect the lines!)
It’s not random
(It’s the pattern)
[Breakdown – drums drop out, atmospheric pads, heartbeat kick]
(Oh… oh…)
You can see it… if you try…
[Bridge – spoken/rap style, minimal instrumentation, building intensity]
We wrote it down in numbers clear
Year by year, it’s all right here
You can doubt or you can deny
But you can’t outrun the why
Feedback loops and shifting flow
More extreme than we used to know
You can argue, you can defend
But the trend line doesn’t bend
[Final Chorus – full power, double-time drums, layered harmonies]
Man presents:
(Freak events!)
Freaks of nature
(No longer future)
Turn it up
(Time’s up!)
Hear the thunder
(Feel it under)
Man presents:
(Freak events!)
No more warnings
(Only mornings)
[Outro – instruments drop out one by one, leaving thunder and wind]
(Oh, no, no…)
Thundersnow…
About the Song
Lightning in the winter, especially when accompanied by snow instead of rain, is called thundersnow. While rare, this phenomenon occurs when an intense winter storm produces strong upward air motion (updrafts), allowing snow to collide and create electrical charges that result in lightning and thunder. It is often associated with heavy snowfall rates.
Frozen precipitation in the spring and summer can also seem like a contradiction. On April 19, 2026, a multi-day severe weather outbreak impacted the Midwest, Great Plains, and Southern Plains. Severe thunderstorms produced baseball-sized hail, destructive wind gusts up to 80 mph, and tornadoes across several states.
Climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of these “freak” events.
[Intro]
Do you read…? Do you see…?
Something’s landing… quietly…
[Verse 1]
Lights in the sky doing loop-de-loops
Breaking through the midnight blue
Nobody sure what’s really there
But something’s shifting in the air
Fields go quiet, dogs won’t bark
Shapes move fast through falling dark
Not quite seen but still felt near
Buzzing static in the ear
[Pre-Chorus]
Is it myth or is it real?
Something you can almost feel
Every answer starts to bend
When the signal won’t descend
[Refrain]
Little green men
(Say it again)
Little green men
(From Mars)
Are their stars
(Far from ours)
Little green men
(Say it again)
Little green men
(From Mars)
[Chorus]
Out past reason, out past night
Something flashing in and out of sight
Every telescope turns blind
When they cross the edge of mind
Little shapes in silver glow
Moving faster than we know
Questions hanging in the air
But nobody’s really there
[Verse 2]
Farmers swear they saw them land
Tiny footprints in the sand
Circles cut into the field
Like reality won’t yield
Government calls it atmospheric tricks
But the signal still won’t stick
Every channel starts to glitch
Something scratching at the switch
[Pre-Chorus]
Every theory starts to fail
Every story loses trail
What we know begins to shake
As the sky begins to break
[Refrain]
Little green men
(Say it again)
Little green men
(From Mars)
Are their stars
(Far from ours)
Little green men
(Say it again)
Little green men
(From Mars)
[Bridge]
Are they watching? Are they near?
Or reflections of our fear?
Every answer starts to spin
When the unknown leans in
Do you see them…
Or do they see you…?
[Final Chorus – Full Retro Sci-Fi Build]
Little green men
(Say it again)
Little green men
(From Mars)
Crossing space in silver threads
Inside our thoughts and in our heads
Little green men
(Say it again)
Little green men
(From Mars)
If they’re real or just a spark
They’ve already lit the dark
[Outro]
Little green men…
Does it feel (for real) when we stare up again…
[Intro]
They call it sci-fi
(I wonder why?)
[Verse 1]
The head hog blob
(An attack on science)
An angry mob
(Lacking coming sense)
Spinning words into broken code
(Walking down a fractured road)
Facts get bent into new disguise
Underneath artificial skies
Signals lost in a feedback loop
Truth diluted in the group
[Pre-Chorus]
Every signal starts to fade
In the stories that we made
What is real gets redefined
(Left behind, left behind)
[Bridge]
They call it sci-fi
(Now ya know why?)
Future dressed in yesterday
(Truth rewritten every day)
Lines are blurred until they die
(That’s why they call it sci-fi)
[Chorus]
Replacing truth
(With a lie)
Removing all couth
(Watching children die)
Building worlds on fractured ground
(Where nothing solid can be found)
Replacing truth
(With a lie)
Turning reason into why
[Verse 2]
Screens glow bright with altered facts
History bending in the cracks
Every voice becomes a thread
Pulling toward what’s misread
Signals echo, multiply
Truth gets filtered through the sky
What was known becomes unclear
Lost in manufactured fear
[Pre-Chorus]
And the louder that they speak
The more the structure starts to leak
Reality begins to bend
Where does truth begin or end?
[Chorus]
Replacing truth
(With a lie)
Removing all couth
(Watching children die)
Systems built on shifting sand
(Slipping through the grasp of man)
Replacing truth
(With a lie)
Till even reason asks you why
[Bridge – Breakdown, Minimal Piano, Low Drone]
Is it fiction? Is it fact?
(Or just a mirror looking back?)
If we lose what we define
(Do we cross a final line?)
[Final Chorus – Full Arrangement, Driving Drums, Layered Vocals]
Replacing truth
(With a lie)
Removing all couth
(Watching children die)
What we build begins to fade
(In the choices that we’ve made)
Replacing truth
(With a lie)
While the real world passes by
[Outro]
They called it sci-fi…
But never asked why…
Now the signal’s gone…
And the silence stays on…
(On and on and on)
[Intro]
(Quick!)
Did you see it…
Or did it see you…
(Whatcha gonna do?)
[Verse 1]
You froze mid-step, eyes wide open
Like a word that’s never spoken
Shadows shifting out of place
Something moving with no face
Air went cold, the sound cut thin
Like it slipped beneath your skin
Tried to laugh it off, but no—
Something there you didn’t know
[Pre-Chorus]
Every nerve begins to light
(Every instinct says don’t fight)
But you’re caught inside the stare
(Of something that was never there)
[Chorus]
You look like
You’ve seen a (ghost)
Crowd strike
Gonna make the (most)
Heart spikes
(Yikes!)
Sure you want to (boast?)
[Verse 2]
Room’s the same but something’s off
Quiet pressed, a hollow cough
Mirrors don’t reflect quite right
Edges blur in broken light
Footsteps fall with no one near
Breathing close beside your ear
Every second stretching long
Like reality’s gone wrong
[Pre-Chorus]
Try to turn and walk away
(But it’s closer than before you say)
Every doubt begins to fade
(As the fear begins to take its shape)
[Bridge]
It never fails
(You turned so pale)
Every story leaves a trail
(You can’t derail)
What you thought was just a tale
(Now prevails…)
[Breakdown – Minimal Beat, Whispered Layers]
Was it real…
(Was it you…)
Did it follow…
(Or break through…)
[Final Chorus – Full Energy, Layered Vocals, Heavy Drums]
You look like
You’ve seen a (ghost)
Crowd strike
Gonna make the (most)
Heart spikes
(Yikes!)
Burn in hell where all (roast?)
You look like
You’ve seen a (ghost)
No disguise
Left to oppose
Now your eyes
Tell it the most—
You don’t doubt it anymore…
(No, not like before)
[Outro]
You saw something…
Or something saw you…
(Whatcha gonna do?)
[Intro]
Pour more flow… don’t need to know…
Just drink it down…
(And, pass it ’round)
[Verse 1]
They lined it up in crooked rows
Nobody asks where it goes
Red in color, sweet in taste
But something’s off in mental waste
Eyes get heavy, thoughts get thin
Truth dissolves and slips right in
Smiles get stuck a little too wide
Like something else is on the inside
[Pre-Chorus]
Every sip takes something more
Than you ever bargained for
Til the world begins to sway
And logic slowly fades away
[Refrain]
I don’t know about you
But they’re drinking
(A strange brew)
Reality’s shrinking
(Drinkin’ a strange brew)
More red Kool-Aid
Watch sanity fade
(Strange, strange brew)
[Chorus]
Sip it down and don’t resist
Taste the edge of what exists
Every drop a new belief
Hiding deeper underneath
Strange brew in the air tonight
Blurring wrong and turning far-right
Nothing here is what it seems
It’s dissolving all your dreams
[Verse 2]
Now the room begins to tilt
Built on something poorly built
Words repeat but don’t align
Spinning out of space and time
Crowds are laughing just the same
But nobody recalls their name
Every story starts to blend
With a loop that won’t end
[Pre-Chorus]
What is real and what is sold?
Something warm but growing cold
Every thought begins to bend
Til it breaks or can’t defend
[Refrain]
I don’t know about you
But they’re drinking
(A strange brew)
Reality’s shrinking
(Drinkin’ a strange brew)
More red Kool-Aid
Watch sanity fade
(Strange, strange brew)
[Bridge]
Is it poison? Is it peace?
Is it just a false release?
Every answer starts to blur
In the taste of what they stir
[Breakdown – Minimal Groove, Whispered Vocals]
Drink it slow…
Don’t let go…
You won’t know…
Til it shows…
[Final Chorus – Full Psychedelic Explosion, Layered Vocals]
Sip it down and don’t resist
Nothing here is what exists
Strange brew in every vein
Riding down into the brain
Strange brew, don’t ask why
Watch the clear turn into lie
Strange brew, drink it deep
Til reality won’t keep
[Outro]
I don’t know about you…
(But I hope to make it through…)
[Intro]
Here we go
(Auto…)
[Verse 1]
Pages turning in a borrowed name
Every memory reshaped by flame
What I was and what I became
Don’t always answer to the same
Footnotes whisper what I left out
Silent chapters built on doubt
Ink bleeds where the truth should be
In the margins of identity
[Pre-Chorus]
Every line is a version of me
Edited by what I choose to see
Somewhere between fact and confession
Lies the shape of my progression
[Chorus]
An autobiography
(Stranger than fiction)
Personal history
(Full of friction)
Written in contradiction
(Marked by flawed precision)
Truth in slow collision
(Stranger than fiction)
[Verse 2]
I recall what I want to recall
Build my story around the fall
Heroes carved from broken stone
Villains made of flesh and bone
Time rewrites what I believed
What I gave and what I received
Even silence tells a tale
When the details start to fail
[Pre-Chorus]
Every truth has a shadow line
Running parallel through time
And what I swear I know for sure
Changes shape behind the door
[Chorus]
An autobiography
(Stranger than fiction)
Personal history
(Full of friction)
Edited in repetition
(Rewritten by recognition)
I am the flawed narration
(Stranger than fiction)
[Bridge – Spoken/Whispered, Sparse Piano]
If I am the author…
why do I forget the plot?
And if this is my story…
why does it feel like it’s not?
[Final Chorus – Full Instrumentation, Rising Intensity]
An autobiography
(Stranger than fiction)
Personal history
(Full of friction)
Every page a contradiction
(Every truth a new condition)
I exist in my description
(Stranger than fiction)
[Outro – Instrumental Fade: Soft Piano, Tape Hiss, Distant Vocal Echo]
Who I was…
(Just because)
who I am…
(where I’m goin’)
somewhere in between the two…
(Loving it with you)
[Intro]
Somewhere in between…
Not quite what it seems…
(In a dream obscene)
[Verse 1]
Half a truth in full disguise
Measured out in compromise
What you see and what you guess
Never quite align—more or less
Edges blur, the center shifts
Meaning bends in subtle drifts
Every answer, incomplete
Standing on uncertain feet
[Pre-Chorus]
Say it once, then say it twice
Turns to something not precise
Every version slightly changed
By the way it’s rearranged
(Deranged)
[Chorus]
Is that true
(More or less)
Point of view
(Askew)
Confess
(More less)
Nothing’s new
(Second guess)
What you knew
(Undress)
Confess
(More or less)
[Verse 2]
Facts reduced to fractions now
Broken down to fit somehow
What was clear is undefined
Filtered through a different mind
Every claim a sliding scale
Somewhere right, somewhere pale
Truth gets trimmed to fit the frame
Close enough to keep the name
[Pre-Chorus]
Shift the angle, change the light
Suddenly it’s not quite right
Every line begins to bend
Toward whatever serves the end
(Click unsend)
[Chorus]
Is that true
(More or less)
Point of view
(Askew)
Confess
(More less)
What you prove
(Still a guess)
What you lose
(Address)
Confess
(More or less)
[Bridge – Minimal Beat, Spoken Layers]
More…
Or less…
Somewhere between a lie and a guess…
More…
Or less…
Truth compressed, under stress…
[Breakdown – Pulsing Bass, Sparse Piano Hits]
Less is more…
More is less…
Nothing settles…
Nothing rests…
[Final Chorus – Full Arrangement, Layered Vocals]
Is that true
(More or less)
Point of view
(Askew)
Confess
(More less)
All we do
(Reassess)
Nothing through
(Progress)
Confess
(More or less)
[Outro – Piano Fade, Distant Echo]
Close enough…
(In the rough)
Not exact…
(Just “about”)
Truth fades out…
(In the rough)
Between the facts…
[Intro]
Feel the drag…
Feel the pull…
Nothing moves when it’s too full…
[Verse 1]
Every step meets some resistance
Measured out in small persistence
Push ahead, but not so fast
Something’s holding from the past
Roughened edges, surfaces meet
Heat builds up beneath your feet
Try to glide, but you’ll confess
Nothing’s ever frictionless
[Pre-Chorus]
Slide or stick, you feel the strain
Losses adding to the gain
Every motion leaves a trace
Energy you can’t erase
[Chorus]
What can be stranger than fiction?
(Friction!)
What’s a beyond bizarre affliction?
(Friction!)
Every move meets contradiction
(Friction!)
Built-in force of opposition
(Friction!)
[Refrain]
It can rub ya the wrong way
(So they say)
And, slow ya down (way down)
Down, down, down
But, hey!
(What can I say)
Upon introspection
(Friction!)
Stops the rain
(From penetrating my brain)
[Verse 2]
Microscopic mountains grind
Jagged truths you’ll always find
Even smooth is rough below
More than what the eyes can show
Kinetic slip and static hold
Stories physics always told
Breakaway or stay confined
Depends on how the forces bind
[Pre-Chorus]
Push it harder, feel the heat
Energy turns incomplete
Lost to motion’s hidden tax
Never getting fully back
[Chorus]
What can be stranger than fiction?
(Friction!)
What’s a beyond bizarre affliction?
(Friction!)
Every system, every depiction
(Friction!)
Driven by this quiet restriction
(Friction!)
[Bridge – Half-Time Groove, Spoken/Layered Vocals]
No escape…
No clean line…
Every surface intertwined…
Push and pull…
Gain and loss…
Every motion pays a cost…
[Breakdown – Percussion Only, Rhythmic Stomps]
Stick… slip…
Grip… flip…
Hold… release…
Never peace…
[Final Chorus – Full Band, Driving Rhythm]
What can be stranger than fiction?
(Friction!)
What’s a beyond bizarre affliction?
(Friction!)
Universal contradiction
(Friction!)
Every path meets interdiction
(Friction!)
[Refrain – Extended, Layered Vocals]
It can rub ya the wrong way
(So they say)
And, slow ya down (way down)
Down, down, down
But, hey!
(What can I say)
Upon introspection
(Friction!)
Stops the rain
(From penetrating my brain)
[Outro – Fading Percussion Scrapes, Low Bass Rumble]
Nothing moves… without a cost…
Every gain… a little lost…
About – Scientific Note
Friction is a fundamental force described in classical mechanics, primarily studied within Physics. It arises from interactions between surfaces at a microscopic level, where even seemingly smooth materials exhibit irregularities.
There are two primary types: static friction, which resists the initiation of motion, and kinetic friction, which opposes motion once objects are sliding. The force of friction is commonly modeled by the equation:
F = μN, where μ is the coefficient of friction and N is the normal force between surfaces.
Friction converts kinetic energy into thermal energy, which is why surfaces heat up when rubbed together. While often seen as a hindrance, friction is essential—it allows us to walk, grip objects, and control motion. Without it, everyday life would become physically unmanageable.
[Intro]
That’s insane
(He has no brain)
[Verse 1]
Cold as static in a broken wire
No spark left, no inner fire
Eyes wide open, nothing there
Empty pulse in vacant air
Words fall flat, they hit the floor
Meaning lost forevermore
Every signal misaligned
Disconnected state of mind
[Pre-Chorus]
Try to reach but there’s no response
Every chance is a lost-once chance
You can scream but it won’t impart
Anything to a missing heart
[Chorus]
Oh, what a mess
(He’s heartless)
See if you can get his heart
(… to start)
A contradiction
(Stranger than fiction)
Running on without ignition
Lost in failed transmission
(Stranger than fiction)
[Bridge]
That’s insane
(He has no brain)
Circuit overload, but nothing feels
(Spinning gears with no real wheels)
All reaction, no reflection
(Trapped inside disconnection)
[Verse 2]
Built of logic, stripped of soul
Half a system, missing whole
Every answer pre-programmed
Every feeling counterfeit and damned
Touch the surface, cold as steel
Nothing there to sense or feel
Human shape, mechanical core
Less than zero, something more
[Pre-Chorus]
Try to find what isn’t there
Trace the void back to nowhere
Every beat just echoes faint
Like a ghost that never was a saint
[Chorus]
Oh, what a mess
(He’s heartless)
See if you can get his heart
(… to start)
A contradiction
(Stranger than fiction)
Perfect flaw in composition
Living without condition
(Stranger than fiction)
[Breakdown]
No pulse…
No spark…
No signal in the dark…
[Final Chorus – Full Arrangement, Heavy Drums, Layered Vocals]
Oh, what a mess
(He’s heartless)
See if you can get his heart
(… to start)
A contradiction
(Stranger than fiction)
Endless loop of malfunction
Human without function
(Stranger than fiction)
[Outro]
Flatline rhythm, fading art
Nothing left… where was the heart?
[Intro]
Passed along from tongue to tongue
Half remembered, half unsung
Truth gets twisted, stretched and spun
Before you know it, it’s begun
[Verse 1]
Knock on wood, don’t break the chain
Step on cracks, invite the pain
Black cat crossing, turn around
Lost and never to be found
Salt thrown over your left shoulder
Keeps the creeping darkness colder
Every charm and every sign
Draws a shaky, fragile line
[Pre-Chorus]
What we fear and what we trust
Settles deep in all of us
Every whisper grows a trail
Between the truth and fairy tale
[Refrain]
It came through
(Without warning)
Take two
(And call me in the morning)
Feed a cold
(Starve a fever)
Growing old
(Are you a believer)
[Chorus]
Old wives’ tales
(About old wives’ tails)
A wild rumor pales
(More lore never fails)
Passed through veils
(Where logic derails)
Truth rides rails
(On improbable trails)
[Verse 2]
Don’t go out with wet hair
Night air’s waiting unaware
Eat your carrots, see at night
Simple tricks to set things right
Full moon rising, strange behavior
Blame it on a cosmic flavor
Every cure and every claim
Different story, same old game
[Pre-Chorus]
Some survive and some persist
Clinging tight in every twist
Every doubt begins to bend
When the stories never end
[Refrain]
It came through
(Without warning)
Take two
(And call me in the morning)
Feed a cold
(Starve a fever)
Growing old
(Are you a believer)
[Chorus]
Old wives’ tales
(About old wives’ tails)
A wild rumor pales
(More lore never fails)
Built on details
(That truth impales)
Yet it prevails
(When reason derails)
[Bridge]
If it works, don’t question why
Pass it on, let logic die
Every myth a thread we weave
Only real if we believe
[Breakdown – Minimal, Whispered Voices]
Tell it again…
Say it out loud…
Truth or pretend…
Lost in the crowd…
[Final Chorus – Full Band, Upbeat Energy]
Old wives’ tales
(About old wives’ tails)
A wild rumor pales
(More lore never fails)
Through the details
(Confusion sails)
Story prevails
(As reason exhales)
[Outro – Whistling Returns, Fading Guitar]
Old and new…
Tired and blue…
Rarely a few…
Really come true…
[Intro]
It starts as nothing, just a word
Something half remembered, half heard
Then it grows without a sound
Spreading outward, all around
[Verse 1]
A glance, a joke, a passing line
Gets rewritten every time
What was said becomes what’s claimed
Truth gets stretched and slightly maimed
Every mouth becomes a wire
Passing sparks that climb up higher
No one checks, no one knows
How the story twists and grows
[Pre-Chorus]
One becomes a dozen more
Changing what it was before
Every retelling bends the frame
Until no two are quite the same
[Refrain]
Do you suppose it’s true
(Comin’ all this way from you)
Whisper down the lane
(Will never be the same)
Spoken half in doubt and clue
(Lost in what we think we knew)
Carried fast, but never plain
(Through the grapevine’s chain)
[Chorus]
Time after time
(Caught up in the grapevine)
‘Nother victim, ‘nother crime
(Caught up in the grapevine)
Truth gets redefined
(Through the tangled line)
Facts begin to unwind
(Caught up in the grapevine)
[Verse 2]
Rumor dressed in borrowed clothes
Nobody knows where it goes
Every step it multiplies
Hidden under casual lies
What begins as simple talk
Turns to something you can’t block
By the time it reaches ears
It’s been shaped by hopes and fears
[Pre-Chorus]
No beginning you can trace
No original face
Only echoes of a claim
Carried on without a name
[Refrain]
Do you suppose it’s true
(Comin’ all this way from you)
Whisper down the lane
(Will never be the same)
Every turn it gets renewed
(Twisted, bent, and misconstrued)
What was fact is now in pain
(Inside the grapevine chain)
[Chorus]
Time after time
(Caught up in the grapevine)
‘Nother victim, ‘nother crime
(Caught up in the grapevine)
Lines begin to intertwine
(Bound up in the design)
Lost between yours and mine
(Caught up in the grapevine)
[Bridge – Breakdown, Whispered Vocals, Echoed Claps]
It said this…
(What?)
No, it said that…
(What?)
Wait—who told you that?
It spreads so fast…
You can’t go back…
Once it’s off the track…
[Breakdown – Minimal Instrumentation, Bass Pulse]
Grapevine…
Grapevine…
Nothing stays defined…
[Final Chorus – Full Arrangement, Driving Rhythm, Layered Harmonies]
Time after time
(Caught up in the grapevine)
‘Nother victim, ‘nother crime
(Caught up in the grapevine)
Truth gets redefined
(Through the fractured line)
Nothing left to realign
(Caught up in the grapevine)
[Outro – Fading Guitar Harmonics, Tape-Style Degradation]
What was said…
What is heard…
Never match…
Not a word…
(So absurd)
[Intro]
Signal breaking through the air
(Are you even there?)
Coordinates unclear
(But you’re drawing near)
[Verse 1]
Shadows moving out of phase
Twisted logic in a maze
Every sign points somewhere else
Nothing lines up with itself
Gravity just lost its hold
Future acting way too old
Time skips beats, repeats the scene
Reality is off the screen
[Pre-Chorus]
Step inside, but don’t assume
Anything obeys the rules
Every answer shifts its form
All the rules set by fools
[Chorus]
Your landing has been cleared
(If you’re prepared to land?)
This place is beyond weird
(Do you understand?)
Signals bent and reappeared
(Nothing goes as planned)
Every truth has disappeared
(Slips right through your hand)
… weird….
[Verse 2]
Voices echo out of sync
Say one thing but make you think
Every face a different mask
Every question dodges “ask”
Up is sideways, down is wrong
Short feels endless, right feels long
Common sense got left behind
Somewhere no one’s gonna find
[Pre-Chorus]
Try to map it, you will fail
Every path’s a broken trail
Every time you think you’re near
Something else just interferes
[Chorus]
Your landing has been cleared
(If you’re prepared to land?)
This place is beyond weird
(Do you understand?)
Nothing’s how it first appeared
(Shifting like the sand)
Every system’s disappeared
(Unmanned, unmanned, unmanned)
… weird….
[Bridge]
Don’t take me to your leader
(’cause he ain’t sane)
Just a nightmare feeder
(… a national shame)
[Build – Rising Synth, Snare Rolls]
Broadcast looping fear
(Again and again)
Everything you hear
(Just bends and pretends)
[Breakdown – Minimal Beat, Whispered Vocals]
Weird…
So weird…
Nothing here is what it appears…
[Final Chorus – Full Arrangement, Layered Vocals, Driving Drums]
Your landing has been cleared
(If you’re prepared to land?)
This place is beyond weird
(Do you understand?)
Every boundary’s disappeared
(No control at hand)
Welcome to the atmosphere
(Where nothing goes as planned)
[Outro – Synth Fade, Distant Radio Signal Returning]
Signal lost…
(Tossed)
Signal found…
(Sound)
Spinning nowhere… round and round…
(Round, round, round)
[Intro]
Uh-huh…
Really now?
Tell me more…
(More than before)
[Verse 1]
Standing there with knowing eyes
Acting like it’s no surprise
Every word already guessed
Like you’ve passed some secret test
Nodding slow, like you’ve been told
Stories newer, somehow old
But I’m hearing this for the first time
Tryin’ to catch the punchline
[Pre-Chorus]
You lean in like it’s breaking news
But I’m just trying to choose
If I should laugh or play along
To this “truth” that feels so wrong
[Chorus]
Oh, is that so
(You don’t say)
Whoa, I didn’t know
(You don’t say)
Funny how it comes and goes
(You don’t say)
Like everybody else supposed
(You don’t say)
[Refrain]
What’d he say
(He didn’t say)
Day after day
(He doesn’t say)
Lost in what they claim to know
(But nobody saw it go)
Round and round the same cliché
(You don’t say)
[Verse 2]
Rumors dressed up as advice
Recycled truth, overpriced
Everyone’s an expert now
On when, where, who, and how
But when I ask for something clear
It disappears into the air
Suddenly no one was there
Or nobody will swear
[Pre-Chorus]
Funny how it all depends
On who retells it to their friends
Same old story, slightly bent
By the time it’s re-presented
[Chorus]
Oh, is that so
(You don’t say)
Whoa, I didn’t know
(You don’t say)
Breaking news that’s overplayed
(You don’t say)
Like it’s something freshly made
(You don’t say)
[Refrain]
What’d he say
(He didn’t say)
Day after day
(He doesn’t say)
Everybody’s got a way
(To misquote what they convey)
Truth just slips and walks away
(You don’t say)
[Bridge – Minimal Groove, Spoken/Mocking Tone]
Oh really?
You don’t say…
No, I would’ve never guessed…
Amazing how that gets expressed…
[Breakdown – Bass-Driven, Half-Time Beat]
Say it again…
But different…
Change the end…
It’s distant…
[Final Chorus – Full Band, Bright but Sarcastic Energy]
Oh, is that so
(You don’t say)
Whoa, I didn’t know
(You don’t say)
Everything is hearsay
(You don’t say)
But it’s gospel every day
(You don’t say)
[Outro – Fading Groove, Repeated Whispered Hook]
You don’t say…
You don’t say…
Funny how it goes that way…
[Intro]
Whispers carried through the trees
Stories riding on the breeze
Once dismissed as something old
Now they’re breaking through the mold
[Verse 1]
Tales we told to pass the night
Shadows dancing in the light
Legends etched in fear and flame
Now they’re stepping out by name
Warnings buried, brushed aside
Truths we chose to let them hide
Every myth we laughed away
Has a voice we hear today
[Pre-Chorus]
What was fiction starts to form
Out beyond the quiet norm
Every doubt begins to crack
As the past comes rushing back
[Refrain]
No, it ain’t folklore
(Any more)
Oh, woe, can’t you see
(It’s turned into reality)
No, it ain’t folklore
(That’s that’s for sure)
Now it’s inevitability
[Verse 2]
Creatures crawling from the page
Ancient scripts in modern age
Every symbol, every sign
Falls into a perfect line
What we feared but never knew
Now is standing in full view
Every legend finds its place
Written on the human face
[Pre-Chorus]
Echoes louder than before
Knocking hard on every door
Every myth we tried to store
Spills out onto the floor
[Refrain]
No, it ain’t folklore
(Any more)
Oh, woe, can’t you see
(It’s turned into reality)
No, it ain’t folklore
(That’s that’s for sure)
Now it’s inevitability
[Bridge – Minimal, Haunting Vocals, Distant Percussion]
We told ourselves it wasn’t real
Just a way to make us feel
Safe inside a story’s frame
Now we only have ourselves to blame
[Breakdown – Drum Pulse, Low Chant]
Folklore… no more…
Folklore… no more…
[Final Refrain – Full Arrangement, Rising Intensity]
No, it ain’t folklore
(Any more)
Oh, woe, can’t you see
(It’s turned into reality)
No, it ain’t folklore
(That’s that’s for sure)
Now it’s inevitability
[Outro – Wind FX, Fading Acoustic Guitar, Whispered Voices]
Stories (told…)
Truths (unfold…)
Nothing left…
To call folklore…
(No, not any more)