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Lyrics: (60 lines)

On the other side of where I came from,

On the right side of the bars.

Every chain is still a mirror, 

If I dare to look too hard.

‘Cause the ladder from misfortune

Climbs more righteous every rung,

So every step is a sacred promise -

I won’t look down, I’ll just go on.

Everything that rises up from entropy

Takes refuge in the law,

So I memorized my code of honor

and wore it like a coat of arms.

And they told me I got lucky -

Just one slip, you’re too far gone.

‘Cause potential is absolute 

Like black and white, or right and wrong.

They said beware, they said be grateful,

If you stray you’re lost forever,

Boy, just pray the past is all you’re hiding from. 

But in my secret sparks of darkness,

There’s a flaw that keeps me lawless,

I can follow every rule except for one. 

Every cloud that blurs your judgment 

Pulls a star down from the sky,

So I shield from my periphery

Temptation and desire.

But if they push through the surface,

Past the point of no return,

You’re gonna brand my wooden heart

That cannot melt, but it can burn. 

But I’ve been good and I’ve been careful,

Kept in line, straight as an arrow,

Should have known I couldn’t stay too green too long. 

Cause in my secret sparks of darkness, 

You’re the flaw that keeps me lawless

I can follow every rule except for one.

I was confidently merciless,

Steadfast in my obedience

A bloodhound with a compass 

How I never strayed until…

You came like a magnet,

A landslide of a man

With strength to pull me from the ladder,

Make me yours to ruin.

You were the fire below the surface,

So unruly and unclean,

Now you’re the fate that breaks the floodgates,

Laughing wildly from my dreams.

A siren call, a force of nature,

Lone divergence in my tunnel vision.

Point me towards a dead end,

Off the tracks and off this ladder,

Where I'll fall or climb courageous,

Keep you buried,

Keep you nameless,

Like you’re not my Achilles heel or fatal flaw.

And when you go, I’ll say “good riddance” 

To the shame that keeps me prisoner

And pray that when you go, 

That you’ll stay gone…

Instruments: (mostly for LMSS mods, but everyone else feel free to bear witness to the chaos)

Uhhh hi LMSS mods. I am...so sorry about this lol. I have absolutely no idea how you're planning to score this and I fear this may test the limits of scoring complexity lmao. But I can assure you that all of the weirdness I'm about to describe was done out of nitpicky music production perfectionism and not an attempt at point-maxxing. If you have any questions or if there is any math I can do to make your job easier, PLEASE lmk because this is uhhhhhh...

Okay here goes:

Total time: 4 minutes, 34 seconds

So technically there are 17 tracks playing in the song. (1 drum track, 2 bass tracks, 4 guitar tracks, 2 vocal tracks, and 8 synthesizers).

All 4 guitar tracks are playing the same part, but they have different amounts of distortion and 2 of them are panned all the way to the right and the other 2 are panned all the way to the left.

The main vocal track is active throughout the whole song, but it's doubled in the choruses and bridge to add texture.

And then *sigh* there are the synthesizers. Technically there are 8 of them, but they're playing 3 different parts. Basically I had to layer multiple synthesizers playing the same part to get the sound that I wanted. So there's one group of 3 playing the buzzy synth part, another group of 3 that's meant to sound like a lead guitar, and then a group of 2 arpeggiators playing the high sparkly part.

The 2 bass tracks are playing 2 different things and the drums are just the drums.