The Floor Beneath the Dreamv6

[Intro — ticking clock, reversed piano notes, distant city ambience] [Soft clean vocals] I close my eyes. The room begins to fall. [Verse 1 — restrained clean vocals over syncopated guitars] The street bends upward around me. A thousand windows turn to stone. I run through rooms that keep unfolding, each one convinced it is my home. A voice I buried walks beside me. It wears a face I used to know. I try to wake, but every doorway leads to a deeper undertow. [Pre-Chorus — clean vocals build; brief scream at the end] If this is only borrowed silence, why does it remember me? I feel the whole world shift beneath me— [Scream] —and I can’t tell what’s real! [Chorus — soaring clean vocals, wide and dramatic] I’m falling through the floor beneath the dream, through every life I built to keep you near. The deeper that I go, the less I know which voice is mine and which one I should fear. If I wake up, will the world be there? If I stay, will I forget my name? I keep reaching through the turning dark, but every truth becomes a dream again. [Verse 2 — rhythmic clean vocals with sharp screamed accents] The clock is running out of order. The walls are closing like a fist. I chase a memory through the levels, but every detail starts to shift. [Scream] Don’t let the past rewrite the present! [Clean vocals] I built a maze around the feeling, then lost the path I meant to find. Now every echo sounds familiar. Now every exit leads inside. [Pre-Chorus — rising drums, layered clean vocals] If this is only borrowed silence, why does it remember me? The ground is breaking into pieces— [Scream] —and I can’t tell what’s real! [Chorus — bigger clean vocals, backing layers] I’m falling through the floor beneath the dream, through every life I built to keep you near. The deeper that I go, the less I know which voice is mine and which one I should fear. If I wake up, will the world be there? If I stay, will I forget my name? I keep reaching through the turning dark, but every truth becomes a dream again. [Breakdown — after the second chorus; djent polyrhythms, crushing half-time, screams] [Scream] LEVEL BY LEVEL! [Growl] THE WALLS GIVE WAY! [Scream] MEMORY IS NOT THE SAME AS TRUTH! [Full-band stop] [Growl] WAKE ME— [Scream] OR LET ME FALL! [Bridge — quiet piano and clean vocals, slowly building] There’s a shape I keep returning to. A question turning in my hand. I need no perfect explanation. I need to know where I can stand. [Build — guitars and drums rise; screams layered behind clean vocals] If the answer disappears, I will choose the step I take. [Final Chorus — full, soaring clean vocals] I’m falling through the floor beneath the dream, through every life I built to keep you near. The deeper that I go, the less I know which voice is mine and which one I should fear. If I wake up, I will face the world. If I stay, I will still be me. I keep reaching through the turning dark— and choose the ground beneath my feet. [Outro — ticking slows; one piano note hangs in the silence] [Quiet clean vocals] I open my eyes. The question stays.