Preserved Awake (Extended 2)

Prelude

Warmth settling over hollow chests

Breaths slow leaking from the nest

Something holds behind the eyes

Golden resin where silence lies

Spoken

Bodies waiting for the drip

Time thickens with each slip

Every thought preserved inside

Caught beneath, we learn to bide

Build

Creep of sweetness, tang of mold

Shrouded thoughts pressed and cold

Sleep denied inside the shell

Honey comforts, rot compels

Hook

We slip, we stick, we slide, we stay

All that rots here melts away

Intro

Bodies settle in the syrup sleep

Pressure slow, every nerve awake and deep

Eyes sealed tight but thought remains

Looping gentle, pain refrains

Verse 1

Gums crack thick with golden glue

Smile frozen, jaw stuck through

Fingers curl as marrow cools

Warmth sinks under ancient rules

Joints remember every twist and snap

Weight of silence pinned across the gap

Senses trap the rot and bloom

Held together in this tomb

Pre-Chorus

Gone beneath but feeling stays

Breath dissolves in honey haze

Lulled by cycles, droning sound

Conscious buried, never found

Chorus

Sweet and slow, it covers all of us

Awake but gone, suspended in the flow

Flesh melts, skin slips, but nothing ever ends

Rot drips slow and the honey ride begins

Post-Chorus

Drifting endless, heavy golden

Drifting endless, thick and swollen

Verse 2

Beneath the ribs, the sugar sticks

Maggots crawl and muscle splits

Sensation lingers—taste of sweet decay

Heartbeat pulsing under layers, washed away

Pre-Chorus

Can’t escape, we circle long

Feel the calm—something wrong

No fear here, only knowing

Weight and honey, ever growing

Chorus

Sweet and slow, it covers all of us

Awake but gone, suspended in the flow

Flesh melts, skin slips, but nothing ever ends

Rot drips slow and the honey ride begins

Post-Chorus

Drifting endless, heavy golden

Drifting endless, thick and swollen

Bridge

Pressure mounting—tendons snap,

Dull ache presses—pulled back flap

Thoughts grow slow, syrup-thick and blind

Swallowed voices echo, chanting deep inside

Spoken

Limbs drift, memory’s stew

All is shared, every bruise

Sweetness binds, marrow yearns

Still awake as the body churns

Chant

Loop it back, another fall

Peel away, reveal it all

Gold-stained silence fills the mind

Wrapped in warmth we cannot find

Chorus

Sweet and slow, it covers all of us

Awake but gone, suspended in the flow

Flesh melts, skin slips, but nothing ever ends

Rot drips slow and the honey ride begins

Post-Chorus

Riding nowhere, thick and golden

Stuck together, never broken

Riding nowhere, thick and golden

Stuck together, never broken

Outro

Voice flickers, sticky-slow

Eyes dissolve in amber glow

Breaths dissolve, the chorus swarms

Minds asleep but never warm

Spoken

Taste the syrup, taste the ash

Drifting deeper, never crash

Thought repeats, decay remains

Soothed by rot, unbreaking chains

Chant

Another cycle, slow return

Sweetness smothers, bodies burn

Peel and settle, rest in gold

Loop forever, never old

Hook

We slip, we stick, we slide, we stay

All that rots here melts away

We slip, we stick, we slide, we stay

All that rots here melts away