        
[Intro: Fast, nervous piano staccato with a rising synth siren] [Spoken, breathless] 
Energy leaving me... like light from the sky. 
Four a.m. Eighth Avenue.
Everything... is... rotting.

[Verse 1: Agitated / Fast Pace]
Overcoat! Hat low! Samsonite grip!
Eighth Avenue sliding—I’m losing my ship! energy’s gone! Light’s leaving the air! Wide-brimmed shadow... don't you dare stare! "Wanna BJ? Wanna BJ?"—Machine in the door! The street is a gutter! I can't take any more!

[Pre-Chorus: Building Histrionics]
Desperate and fast! Fast! Fast! Too damaged to compete! Too ruined to last! Tap on the glass! Cincinnati pure! A half-face dream... a chemical cure! Ten bucks for a fuck! Barking in the hall! I’m buying my time with my back to the wall!

[Chorus: Explosive / High Energy / Full Frenzy]
BLACKOUT! In the air-shaft! Shadow and bone! BLACKOUT! I’m taking the life that I don't even own! It pops through the viscera! It touches the vein! Purple and rich!!!! ...To silence the pain!

[Verse 2: Manic / Scientific / Precise]
Open the briefcase! Naphtha! Glass! Potassium crystals! Make it move fast! Glycerine rain on a yellowed sheet— Ten minutes of fire to clean up the street! She’s so light! So light! Just fuel for the flame! I’m burning the evidence! I’m burning my name!

[Bridge: The "Barking" / Eerie Silence] [Music cuts to a dry, rhythmic pulse] [Whispered/Barking]
Bark. Bark. Bark. Like a whispering dog... in the dark. 
[Sudden yell] Do you feel me in your veins?! Do you hear my name?! Six hours? One hour? The clock is the same!

[Outro: Total Chaos / Screaming Histrionics]
NOBODY NOTICED! LEAPING! LEAPING! INTO THE LIGHT! I’m well! I’m just thin! [Vocal trails off into a frantic, hyperventilating laugh] [Sudden silence]

