[Silence]
[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Slow Bass Pulse, Echo Guitar, Organ Drone, Glassy Synth]
[Minimal Beat, Spoken Vocal]
Magnify
(And analyze)
Magnify
(What we deny)
[Verse 1]
Every crack in the system
Every lie in the chain
Every promise of progress
Leaving somebody in pain
Every river polluted
Every forest cut down
Every tower of money
Built on sinking ground
[Pre-Chorus]
Closer and closer
The picture comes into view
Harder to hide it
When everybody knows the truth
[Chorus]
Take a look…
(We’re under the microscope)
We mistook…
(Dangling at the end of our rope)
Take a look…
(Every detail exposed)
We mistook…
(Thinking nobody would know)
[Instrumental]
[Guitar Solo]
[Driving Bass, Snare March, Organ Stabs]
[Verse 2]
Tiny fractures become fault lines
Little failures become collapse
Every bad decision spreading
Like a maze with no way back
The symptoms all connect now
The evidence is plain
A species studying itself
While repeating the same mistakes
[Bridge]
Under the microscope
You can see the decay
The greed in the bloodstream
The fear on display
The damage in motion
The cost of delay
And all of the warnings
We threw away
[Breakdown]
[Minimal Percussion, Low Drone, Spoken Vocal]
Look closer
(Under the microscope)
Look deeper
(At the things we broke)
Look closer
(Before we choke)
[Final Chorus]
Take a look…
(We’re under the microscope)
We mistook…
(Dangling at the end of our rope)
Take a look…
(Every detail exposed)
We mistook…
(Thinking nobody would know)
Take a look…
(The whole world can see)
We mistook…
(What we were becoming)
[Outro]
[Slow Piano, Fading Synth, Wind FX]
Magnify
(And analyze)
Magnify
(What we deny)
[Fade Out]
From the album “Laboratory“