[Intro – Energy 25 | clock ticks, tape hiss, music box]
(Tape click)
welcome, listener—your choices are humming in the wires.
three doors. two lies. one truth.
breathe in. don’t blink. the room is listening.
[Verse 1 – Energy 40→50]
You woke to the metronome counting your sins,
A circle of mirrors reflecting your grin.
Keys on a ring made of promises thin,
Pick one—careful—the wrong one spins.
Rules carved in vapor, written in steam,
Puzzles and patterns inside every scream,
You say you’re innocent—prove what you mean,
Tick-tick mercy, tick-tick mean.
[Pre-Chorus – Energy 60 | rising drones + snare build]
Weigh your heart on a scale of lead,
Measure truth by a strand of thread,
Time is teeth and it loves the red—
(but not tonight) choose mind instead.
[Chorus – Energy 85 | anthemic horror hook, chant + growl]
Pick a door, pick a sin, time runs thin—let the gears begin,
Turn the dial, hold your breath—dance with consequence.
Count to four, count again—fear’s your only friend,
If you want your life back—
prove it to the mechanism.
[Post-Chorus Tag – Energy 70 | saw-blade synth + choir stabs]
(Tape voice) confess / renounce / reset / live.
[Verse 2 – Energy 65→75]
Floorboards whisper your alibis,
Locks learn faces and tell no lies,
Every step writes your lullabies—
backwards notes, electric sighs.
Take the blade of a ticking hand,
Cut the rope from your promised land,
Trade your pride for an open strand—
clockwork judge will understand.
[Pre-Chorus – Energy 85 | bigger build, glitch fills]
Weigh your breath like a stolen song,
Measure guilt if the echo’s long,
Time forgives—but it wants you strong—
(choose the pain that makes you wrong).
[Chorus – Energy 100 | full power, stomp + chant]
Pick a door, pick a sin, time runs thin—let the gears begin,
Turn the dial, hold your breath—dance with consequence.
Count to four, count again—fear’s your only friend,
If you want your life back—
prove it to the mechanism.
[Break / Drop – Energy 100 | EDM drop: razor bass, alarm risers, reverse piano]
[EDM drop]
(Tape click) Rule One: breathe slow. Rule Two: choose true. Rule Three: be new.
[Bridge – Energy 90 | half-time, choir + distorted bass]
Left hand truth, right hand debt,
Which one’s yours, which one’s left?
Glass-cold mercy, iron kiss,
Trade your comfort for abyss.
[Call-and-Response – Energy 95 | crowd chant]
Voice: “Are you ready?”
Crowd: “Turn the key.”
Voice: “Will you run?”
Crowd: “Set me free.”
Voice: “What remains?”
Crowd: “What I choose to be.”
[Chorus – Energy 100 | final, with octave-up chant]
Pick a door, pick a sin, time runs thin—let the gears begin,
Turn the dial, hold your breath—dance with consequence.
Count to four, count again—fear’s your only friend,
If you want your life back—
prove it to the mechanism.
[Outro – Energy 5 | tape slow-down, music box solo, breath FX]
(Tape voice, whisper) reset. remember. repeat.
(Tape eject)
[fade with ticking clock until silence]