[Intro]
[Distorted vocal sample]
Who… who… who have you…
[Static burst]
[Verse 1 – Woman, spoken/whispered]
I used to know your face
Every line, every trace
Now you’re standing there like a stranger
[echoing] Stranger… stranger…
Stranger… stranger…
[Woman, building intensity]
When did you learn to lie so well?
When did your heart become a shell?
[Pre-Chorus – Call and Response]
[Woman, desperate]
Tell me where you went
[distant]
I never left
[Woman, louder]
Tell me what you meant
[fragmented]
I-I-I forget
[Chorus]
Who have you become?
[Pitch-shifted harmony: become… become…]
Who have you become?
[Woman, wailing]
I don’t recognize the one I love
[robotic processing]
Love… love… love…
Who have you become?
[Instrumental Break – Harsh electronic textures]
[Verse 2 – Man, spoken word/aggressive]
You want the truth?
I broke myself trying to be
What you needed me to be
[Woman, ghostly background]
Needed… needed…
[Man, shouting]
Every piece of me scattered!
[Electronic glitch]
Every breath that mattered!
[Electronic glitch]
[Pre-Chorus – Reversed roles]
[Man, pleading]
Tell me where I went
[Man, cold]
You disappeared
[Man, breaking]
Tell me what I meant
[Man, processed]
Nothing… nothing here…
[Bridge – Overlapping chaos]
[Woman, fragmented]
We were… we were… something once
[distorted]
Once… once… upon a…
[Both, building to scream]
Now we’re ghosts in the machine!
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE!
[Final Chorus – Both, desperate harmony]
Who have we become-ome-ome-ome?
Who have we become?
[Woman, raw]
I don’t recognize us anymore
[fading]
More… more… more…
Who have we become?
[Outro – Woman alone, vulnerable]
I used to know your face
[Whispered, processed]
Every line… every trace…
[Silence]
[Single electronic pulse]