I'll Never Leave You Again

Lyrics

[Intro — deep, dark male narrator, spoken over a low synth hum and buzzing station lights] The path of darkness never looked so bright. She walks in. The lights flicker above her, one by one. She sits beside him. The ground starts to tremble. He turns toward her. Dust sifts down from the ceiling. He leans in. The rails begin to sing. And then he whispers in her ear. [Blackout. The lights snap on. She’s already standing. She swings one leg over the stool, eyes locked on the crowd. Her boot hits the floor.] [Female low death growl. Full band hits on “never.”] I’LL NEVER LEAVE YOU— [She rockets into a piercing high scream on “again,” holds it, then drags it down into a guttural roar on the same breath.] AGAAAAAAAIN! [Male verse — haunting clean ballad. Guitars drop out. Sparse piano echoes down the tunnel.] I’ve waaaaited all theeese years fooor yooou, Felt like eternity, All of the nights without you here. It’s been a torturous road, All the women I’ve known, Not finding one of them like you nooow— [Halfway through “now,” she joins him in aching clean harmony. They hold the note together.] [Female verse — low, breathy, and smoky] I woke up from the dead, Come quickly, take me to bed, I’ve been eternally underfeeeeeeeeeeeeed— [“Fed” climbs into a clean howl that rides the wind straight to heaven. The D lands only when she lets the note go.] [Chorus — full band hits on that D. He screams the lead. She sings the same words with him in a soaring, loving clean howl.] Say it again, say it again, Let the last train leave without us. I’ve spent enough nights wondering when I’d hear you say you’ll never leave again. [Both sustain the last line together, his scream and her clean howl.] I’ll never leave you again. [Guitar solo — one long bend that sounds like her howl. Then both hands tear up the fucking fretboard, ripping through notes until they blur into one long scream. The band cuts out. He holds one last note until the rails sound like they’re screaming back.] [Female vocal break — she catches the guitar’s pitch, breathy at first, rising as if lifted off the bed.] Ahhhhhhh… Uhhhhhhh… Yes, yes, yesyesyesyes—yeeeeeeees! [Her clean howl rips into a piercing high scream. The band crashes back in. The station lights rattle and the fucking cockroaches crawl out of the cracks and start dancing.] [Male drum callout — nostrils flared, low earthy growl straight from the bowels of hell] PLAY THE FUCK OUT OF THEM DRUMS! [Drum solo — kick roll into savage tom fills. She jumps up and growls right on the drum hits.] Ah! Ah! Ah! AHHH! [Three short, earthy growls. She holds the fourth in a smoky rasp all the way through the cymbal crash.] [Final chorus — the whole band slams back in on the cymbal crash. He screams the lead. She sings every word with him in a soaring, loving clean howl.] Say it again, say it again, Let the last train leave without us. I’ve spent enough nights wondering when I’d hear you say you’ll never leave again. [Both hold the last line together, his scream and her howl.] I’ll never leave you again. [The whole band cuts dead. One beat of silence. She sings the promise alone, so soft it sounds like it’s just for him.] I’ll never leave you again. [One last rattle from the rails. Fade to silence.]