GRAVITY & GOLD v2

[Verse 1]
They hand you the needle, they hand you the screen
A soft anaesthetic to kill off the dream
They say it's a bug, a flaw in the code
To feel all the weight of this heavy load
Keep you distracted, keep you asleep
Buried in shallow so you fear the deep
Static and noise, a comfortable cage
Numbing the sorrow, diluting the rage

[Pre-Chorus]
But I feel the heat rising under the skin
The reactor is waking, the friction begins
They call it suffering, I call it fuel
I'm breaking the gauge, I'm breaking the rule

[Chorus]
Crush the dark until it burns bright
Gravity crushing the hydrogen light
Let the pressure hold
Turn the pain into gold
I am not broken, I'm becoming dense
Make it make sense, yeah, make it make sense
I'm the alchemist here, and I won't be sold
Watch me turn all of this pressure to gold

[Verse 2]
Raw base metal, that's what they want
A battery draining, a ghost in a haunt
Blame it on them, blame it on fate
Just don't let the catalyst transmutate
But I see the lie in the comfort they preach
The philosopher's stone is within my reach
Not a victim of loss, I'm a student of fire
Forged in the furnace of unmet desire

[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, I feel the heat rising under the skin
The reactor is waking, the friction begins
They call it suffering, I call it fuel
I'm breaking the gauge, I'm breaking the rule

[Chorus]
Crush the dark until it burns bright
Gravity crushing the hydrogen light
Let the pressure hold
Turn the pain into gold
I am not broken, I'm becoming dense
Make it make sense, yeah, make it make sense
I'm the alchemist here, and I won't be sold
Watch me turn all of this pressure to gold

[Bridge]
(Instrumentation breakdown - Heavy Breathing / Heartbeat Kick)
Don't numb the ache
Let the dam break
If you don't burn
You'll never turn
(Build up)
I am the system! I am the core!
I don't want the peace, I want the war!

[Guitar Solo / Drop]

[Chorus]
Crush the dark until it burns bright
Gravity crushing the hydrogen light
Let the pressure hold
Turn the pain into gold
I am not broken, I'm becoming dense
Make it make sense, yeah, make it make sense
I'm the alchemist here, and I won't be sold
Watch me turn all of this pressure to gold

[Outro]
Gold.
Pure gold.
Let it crush.
Let it burn.
(Fade out on feedback and metallic resonance)