[Silence]
[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro]
Shall we set sail
(For the epic fail?)
[Instrumental Intro: Distant Alarm FX, Pulsing Low Synth, Sparse Piano Notes]
[Filtered Vocals, Slow Build]
One breaks… then another…
(It doesn’t stop to recover)
No… it spreads…
(The dread)
[Instrumental]
[Guitar Swells, Reverse FX, Sub Bass Drop]
[Verse 1]
First the drain, then the street
Then the river at your feet
Every layer overrun
One by one… undone
Systems built for yesterday
Fold beneath a new display
Threshold crossed, no reset
Every failure compounds the debt
[Pre-Chorus]
Linked together, tight and fast
It won’t bend… ain’t built to last
Every node a fragile line
Now they fail at the same time
[Chorus]
It’s a failure cascade
Nothing we can contain
(It’s all manmade)
All connected in the strain
It’s a failure cascade
Every wall decays
(Out of control: manmade)
Say goodbye to yesterdays
[Verse 2]
Grid goes down, signals lost
Every second counts the cost
Water rising, power gone
Chain reaction carries on
Backup systems overflow
Redundancy can’t take the load
Every safeguard overwhelmed
Physics now at the helm
[Pre-Chorus]
Feedback loops begin to spin
What goes out comes back again
Heat to storm and storm to force
Driving faster on its course
[Chorus]
It’s a failure cascade
Nothing we can contain
(It’s all manmade)
All connected in the strain
It’s a failure cascade
Every wall decays
(Out of control: manmade)
Say goodbye to yesterdays
[Bridge]
[Half-Time Groove, Heavy Bass, Organ Drone]
Positive feedback (no turning back)
It’s out of whack
Each increase (won’t decrease)
(Loop on loop… tightening)
Is it frightening?
More heat, more flow, more force, more break
More loss with every step we take
(It feeds itself… it accelerates…)
While the denier debates
[Breakdown – Minimal Beat, Spoken Vocal]
You thought you could isolate…
(Debate the rate of fate)
You thought it would be slow…
(You thought you would know)
But systems connect…
(Your neglect)
And connection… is flow…
(Now you know)
[Build-Up]
[Snare Build, Rising Synth, Guitar Feedback]
(Feel it rising… feel it spread…)
(Every path… is now ahead…)
[Final Chorus – Full Band, Intense Vocals]
It’s a failure cascade
Nothing we can contain
(It’s all manmade)
All connected in the strain
It’s a failure cascade
Every wall decays
(Out of control: manmade)
Say goodbye to yesterdays
[Outro]
[Instrumental Fade: Piano Repeats, Static FX, Distant Thunder]
One breaks… then another…
(And another… and another…)
[Silence]
From the album “Drag Physics“