Attack Vector
A watchman polishes his chain while a twin of his tower rises across the lane overnight. The walls were only ever made of time.
Lyrics
Verse 1 – 16 Bars | Fast Male Rap, Tight Industrial Breakbeat
We sold them delay, dressed it up as stone
Charged for the road that would take them home
Every new stair took a decade to raise
We called that cost a barricade
Then a twin rose up across the lane
Same bent railing, same water stain
No trucks outside, not a hammer strike
Just a door on demand, gone by night
Each wrong shape left a cleaner line
Each new failure showed where to try
The watchman stood with his polished chain
While the footfalls took an unmarked lane
They didn't storm us, didn't have to fight
Just built the same thing in half the time
We swore those walls would outlast our lives
But the wall was only made of time
Pre-Chorus – 8 Bars | Rising Clean Male Vocals, Distorted Bass
Every failure drew the outline
Every error found a seam
And the thing that made us untouchable
Was never what it seemed
Chorus – 8 Bars | Explosive Guitars, Layered Shouted Vocals
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU!
No footsteps on the stairs
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU!
You'll swear there's no one there
They don't need to burn the tower
They don't have to tear it down
They'll build another while you're sleeping
Leave you ruling empty ground
Verse 2 – 16 Bars | Rapid Rhythmic Rap, Driving Bass, Sharp Guitar Accents
The desks go dark, but the work gets done
Morning comes, and half the chairs are gone
A singer hears herself across the hall
In a song she never sang at all
You ask for a doorway, it blooms in air
You walk through once, and it isn't there
The river's owners still set the price
The bridge-builders pay for crossing twice
At the courthouse every claim has a fee
Not every maker can afford to be seen
You can copy every face, every name
But none will stay to carry the blame
New towers grow for pennies in the rain
But no one can make the ground again
They say the road belongs to all
But the valley's owners need no walls
Pre-Chorus – 8 Bars | Tension Rising, Layered Harmonies
Every question makes a doorway
Every doorway folds to air
We kept guarding all the bridges
To a river no longer there
Chorus – 8 Bars | Full Band, Aggressive Vocals
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU!
No footsteps on the stairs
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU!
You'll swear there's no one there
They don't need to burn the tower
They don't have to tear it down
They'll build another while you're sleeping
Leave you ruling empty ground
Bridge – 8 Bars | Drums Drop Out, Quiet Voice Building to a Scream
I showed them how to make the crossing
I showed them where the cracks would be
I thought I stood outside the story
Till the story turned on me
There's a watchman in the other tower
He wears the face I used to wear
I try to call him from the window
He doesn't even know I'm there
Final Chorus – 8 Bars | Massive Final Drop, Double-Tracked Screams
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU!
No footsteps on the stairs
THEY'RE COMING FOR ME!
I can feel them everywhere
They don't need to burn the tower
They don't have to tear it down
They'll build another while we're sleeping
LEAVE US RULING EMPTY GROUND!
[Hard Cut – Instrumental Stops, No Fade]
Song sheet
How the track is built.
- fortress ↔ obsolescence
- a watchman guarding a tower while an identical twin rises across the lane overnight
- fast male rap
- layered shouted vocals
- double-tracked screams in the final chorus