[Silence]
[Instrumental – Pulsing Bass, Distant Radio Static, Rising Synth Drones, Mechanical Rhythm]
[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Pulsing Bass, Organ Swell, Muted Guitar Chops, Rising Synth Filter]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
They call it sci-fi
(I wonder why?)
[Instrumental – Glitching Synth Layers, Filtered White Noise, Echoed Guitar Licks]
[Synth Solo – Warped, Modulating Pitch, Futuristic but Uneasy]
[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]
[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
[Instrumental Break – Heavy Synth Bass, Industrial Percussion, Distorted Guitar Surge]
[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]
[Soft Synth Fade, Distant Static, Organ Dissolves Into Noise]
They called it sci-fi…
But never asked why…
Now the signal’s gone…
And the silence stays on…
(On and on and on)
From the album “Stranger Than Fiction“