[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Deep Synth Drone, Glass Percussion, Low Bass Pulse, Distant Radio Voices]
[Slow Build: Piano Notes, Electronic Beeps, Rising String Pad]
[Whispered Vocals]
Here’s the story:
(Come, come)
Welcome
(To the laboratory)
[Mechanical Drum Fill]
[Verse 1]
[Steady Beat, Bass Guitar, Muted Guitar Chops, Atmospheric Synth]
Glass towers rising
Under burning skies
Cities full of motion
Dreams and alibis
We mixed fire with metal
We carved roads through the trees
Built machines for tomorrow
Then forgot the seas
[Pre-Chorus]
[Snare Build, Layered Vocals, Synth Swell]
Every answer brought a question
Every cure came with a cost
We were chasing immortality
Never counting what we lost
[Chorus]
[Full Band: Driving Drums, Big Synths, Distorted Guitar, Choir Backing Vocals]
Come hear man’s story
(In our laboratory)
We call it planet Earth
(Where you found your birth)
Test tubes full of memory
(Broken symmetry)
We made a world of wonder
(Then pulled it all asunder)
[Instrumental Break]
[Lead Synth Melody, Guitar Echoes, Pulsing Bass]
[Verse 2]
[Beat Drops Back, Piano Added, Warm Bassline]
Children in the shadows
Looking at the stars
Asking if the future
Will remember who we are
Smoke above the mountains
Plastic in the rain
A paradise of progress
Running through our veins
[Pre-Chorus]
[Building Tension, Percussion Layers, Rising Harmony]
We kept digging ever deeper
Searching for another way
Turning night into a factory
Turning gold into decay
[Chorus]
[Full Band Returns, Wider Harmony, Bigger Drums]
Come hear man’s story
(In our laboratory)
We call it planet Earth
(Where you found your birth)
Fragments of creation
(Lost in automation)
Still beneath the damage
(There lives imagination)
[Bridge]
[Half-Time Beat, Dark Synth Pad, Minimal Piano]
In the wires
In the weather
In the oceans turning warm
In the silence of the forests
In the coming of the storm
[Bridge Build]
[Drums Return, Strings Rise, Choir Swells]
We can still rewrite the ending
We can still become reborn
We can break the walls around us
We can heal what we have torn
[Guitar Solo]
[Electric Guitar Solo with Synth Arpeggios, Heavy Tom Drums]
[Final Chorus]
[Massive Chorus: Full Orchestra, Heavy Drums, Layered Choir, Synth Bass]
Come hear man’s story
(In our laboratory)
We call it planet Earth
(Where you found your birth)
Hold the flame before it fades
(Stand against the falling waves)
We are more than what we’ve broken
(We are every word unspoken)
Come hear man’s story
(In our laboratory)
The future’s still alive
If we choose to survive
[Outro]
[Instrumental Outro: Fading Piano, Soft Synth Drone, Distant Thunder]
[Whispered Vocals]
That’s our story:
(Dumb, dumb)
No why… no “how come?”
(In our labor-atory)
[Fade Out]
From the album “Laboratory“