The Crimson Offering

Text:
Verse 1
Steel and fire in the midnight air,
engines roar, shadows everywhere.
Voices rise like thunder, loud and wild,
the city’s rage is burning, untamed, defiled.

Pre-Chorus
Chains are breaking, fists to the sky,
we live forever, we’ll never die!

Chorus (sing-along, big & anthemic)
Oh-oh, city lights, scream it higher,
hearts collide, we’re born from fire.
Oh-oh, feel the night, we’re alive,
raise your voice together, under city lights!

(solo)

Verse 2
Darkened alleys, neon blood,
echoes marching like a flood.
Brothers, sisters, side by side,
in the storm we take the ride.

Pre-Chorus
Chains are breaking, fists to the sky,
we live forever, we’ll never die!

Chorus
Oh-oh, city lights, scream it higher,
hearts collide, we’re born from fire.
Oh-oh, feel the night, we’re alive,
raise your voice together, under city lights!

(solo)

Bridge (growl/shout)
No masters, no cages,
we write our own pages!
The night is our stage,
unleash the rage!

Final Chorus (crowd chant style)
CITY LIGHTS! (hey!)
SCREAM IT HIGHER! (hey!)
HEARTS COLLIDE, WE’RE BORN FROM FIRE!
CITY LIGHTS! (hey!)
FEEL ALIVE! (hey!)
FOREVER WE STAND, UNDER CITY LIGHTS!

Under City Lights

Thanks to everyone who checked out both cuts of this track. After the first wave of feedback, it’s clear that the Raw Circuit version hit the hardest — so this is the one that lives on as Darker Than Normal. Inspired by revisiting my older track Nobody, this is me exploring the darker, industrial-core side of my music. I’ll also be working on a Halloween track in the same style, so keep an eye out 👀. Both version will still be available on Bandcamp. This will also be the first release for my latest pseudoartist addition: ASHCOIL

👉 Promo: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ashcoil/darker-than-normal

Lyrics:

I never fit in your perfect line 
Your clean white world will never be mine 
You call me broken, I call it free 
I live in the dark where I want to be

I won’t bow down to your shining disguise 
My truth is burning where your daylight dies

DON’T TELL ME! 
How to live your lifeless way 
I’M OBSESSED! 
With the dark I won’t betray 
THIS IS ME! 
I won’t march in your parade 
The darker side is where I’ll stay

Normal is nothing, it rots, it decays 
I’m breaking the mask from your shallow face

Your plastic smiles all look the same 
I wear my scars, I’m not ashamed 
Your system’s chains won’t keep me inside 
I breathe in the places your light can’t hide

I won’t bow down to your shining disguise 
My truth is burning where your daylight dies

DON’T TELL ME! 
How to live your lifeless way 
I’M OBSESSED! 
With the dark I won’t betray 
THIS IS ME! 
I won’t march in your parade 
The darker side is where I’ll stay

You call it darkness… I call it home.

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