[Intro]

Red blink

Gut drop

Missed command

Contact lost

[Verse 1]

It comes in sideways through the fluorescents

Like a grinder kiss across the nerves

One dead item in the system stack

One dropped load I did not serve

Not gone - no, I tagged it once

I knew the hour, the need, the spread

Felt it tick behind the socket

And still I let it go unfed

Maybe fear with its jaws wired open

Maybe rot wearing my face at work

Maybе I watched that warning flicker

And let it sink bеlow the dirt

Now the whole place sounds infected

Vents cough heat through the plated ribs

The walls give back a low-end tremor

Like the building knows exactly what I did

[Pre-Chorus]

And here it is

That acid plunge

That white-noise flood behind the eyes

That animal second when the body knows

Before the sirens organize

[Chorus]

Sudden panic

Chrome and bile

The whole dead engine

Turns hostile

I hear the chain

I feel it draw

I know my name is in its jaw

So let it land

Let it come through

I'll be the surface

They drive it through

The time to stop this

Died back then

Now all I do is take the end

[Verse 2]

I check the thread, the queue, the log file

Like maybe error learned to heal

Like maybe night shift closed the rupture

Like maybe absence won't congeal

But no - it's there, exposed and gleaming

That naked void where action stood

The easy move, the plain decision

The one small act that would've held the whole hood

And all my reasons start up twitching

Wet relays snapping in my skull

Too tired. Too split. Too mean. Too guilty

Too full of static to pull the null

Like I got a concussion that never scarred over

All priorities mashed in a sinking blur

Every bright demand turns to slurry

Every urgent line reduced to fur

[Pre-Chorus 2]

I knew enough

Or close enough

Enough to move, enough to care

But knowing stalls in stripped-out circuits

And now the burn is in the air

[Chorus]

Sudden panic

Chrome and bile

The whole dead engine

Turns hostile

I hear the shift

I hear the tone

That says this one you're taking alone

So let it land

I earned this bruise

There ain't no clean excuse to use

No sealant left

No alibi

Just impact building in the wire

[Verse 3]

I can hear 'em coming down the hallway

Soles hitting hard in measured time

That management silence full of murder

That polished look that means you're mine

Every face lit corpse-blue by the monitors

Every mouth cut flat with blame

All that pressure needing a container

All that heat already shaped like my name

[Bridge]

Was it laziness

Was it terror

Was it poison nursed into a choice

Did I jam it under ten dead trivials

Just to shut up that internal voice

Or did some black little motor in me

Leave the fault there outta spite

Hoping when the board blew sparks and screaming

Everybody else would wear my night

[Breakdown]

Factory god

With its cable veins

Fluorescent halo, asbestos lungs

I stood there while the pressure climbed

And kept my hands down at my sides like stones

That is the stain

Not just the miss

Not just the task left cold and late

But that there was a living interval

And I let it calcify to fate

So square the jaw

Unhook the tongue

Don't waste breath welding little shields

The fix was back in that small dumb minute

Buried under all the psychic sludge I let congeal

Now all that's left is noise and force

Heat bloom, grit spit, blood taste, glare

Be the best damn punching bag you can be

Stand there useful. Let them clear the air

[Final Chorus]

Sudden panic

Wire and bruise

The whole machine

Has picked its use

One dead click

One missed send

And now the shockwave wears your skin

So let it break

Let it accuse

Let every hard mouth do what it does

I'll be the plate

I'll be the drum

I'll take the sound of what I've become

[Post-Chorus]

Sudden panic

Late and pure

The invoice comes

Through steel and whirr

And all that's left

When contact starts

Is holding still

While the system pulls you apart

[Outro]

I shoulda moved

I locked up

Now hear it climb

Through duct and strut

No grace

No sleep

Just one missed thing

And the whole plant at my teeth