[Silence]
[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
Did you go off the rails?
(Never fails)
[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Reverb Wash, Rising Synth Pad]
[Verse 1]
[Mid-tempo Groove, Bass Guitar, Light Drums, Ambient Synth]
Steel lines hum beneath your feet
Every promise sounds so sweet
Switches thrown in dead of night
Truth derailed without a fight
Signals flicker, red to green
Blurring what is heard and seen
Tickets stamped but no control
Destination: pay the toll
[Pre-Chorus]
[Build-Up, Snare Crescendo, Rising Strings, Distorted Guitar Layer]
You can feel the pressure build
Every gap the silence filled
Whispers riding every track
No way forward, no way back
[Chorus]
[Full Band, Driving Drums, Heavy Bass, Layered Vocals, Synth Stabs]
Rail against the machine
(Or humans so obscene)
Rail for freedom
(No such thing as free dumb)
Ride the line between
(What is and what has been)
Rail for reason
(Or lose all you believe in)
[Verse 2]
[Reduced Instrumentation, Clean Guitar, Piano Motif, Soft Percussion]
Engines roaring through your mind
Leave the fragile truth behind
Every carriage, every lie
Stacked beneath a darkened sky
Schedules written, never kept
Dreams abandoned, secrets slept
Cargo full of doubt and fear
Still the end is drawing near
[Pre-Chorus]
[Increasing Intensity, Tom Fills, Synth Swells, Guitar Feedback]
Hear the metal start to scream
Nothing’s ever what it seems
Brakes are failing, sparks ignite
Running blind into the night
[Chorus]
[Full Band, Expanded Harmony Vocals, Orchestral Synth Layer]
Rail against the machine
(Or humans so obscene)
Rail for freedom
(No such thing as free dumb)
Cross the in-between
(Where you’ve never been)
Rail for meaning
(Or stop the world from leaning)
[Bridge]
[Breakdown, Sparse Piano, Distant Reverb Guitar, Ambient Drone]
Off the rails, we justify
Every truth we let it die
Echoes ringing in the steel
Tell me what is even real
[Build-Up, Electronic Pulse, Rising Snare Roll, Distorted Bass]
If the track begins to bend
Do you follow to the end?
Or jump clear before the fall
Before nothing’s left at all
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo, Organ Swells, Synth Arpeggios, Full Percussion Return]
[Final Chorus]
[Maximum Intensity, Full Orchestra Synth, Double Kick Drums, Layered Vocals]
Rail against the machine
(Or humans so obscene)
Rail for freedom
(No such thing as free dumb)
Break the unseen seam
(Tear apart the dream)
Rail for something
(Or end up with nothing)
[Outro]
[Stripped Down, Minimal Beat, Sub Bass Pulse, Fading Guitar Harmonics]
Did you go off the rails?
(Never fails…)
[Silence]
From the album “Rail“