[Intro] (Chopped-vox, pulse building)
"Life should be easy — you grind too hard" (repeat, chopped)
Red light flickers, scanner hums — now
[Verse 1] (Staccato delivery, tight rhythm)
Clock in, clock out, the badge reads warm but wrong
Turnstile heartbeat — metal click, same song
Your stamped pass curls at the edges, edges burned
Door’s sliding slow — a notch, then it’s turned
Concrete corridor, fluorescent eyes that stare
Someone’s counting numbers like they own the air
You move like whisper steps inside a trapdoor math
One missed sign, one wrong scan, the path goes dark
[Pre-Chorus] (Breathy, sustained, rising)
Hear the scanner whisper: red, red, red
Breath held low, feel the pressure in your head
Don’t let the latch catch your sleeve — hold fast
This is the moment — when futures pass
[Chorus] (Center hook — punchy, hypnotic)
Get out now — get out now — you’ll be barred if you stay
Get out now — leave the night, step into day
Don’t drown in doubt, don’t let the gate snap shut
Get out now — get out now — before they stamp your cut
[Verse 2] (Staccato, building tension)
Ticket torn, the ink goes black — a final line
Names on lists like constellations gone out of time
Empty chair at the console, screen sleeps in grey
Your echo fills the hallway where decisions lay
Red print: B-A-R-R-E-D across a silver plate
A whisper turned to order, a door slammed by fate
There’s a key in your pocket, but the lock’s a different shape
You can slip past the sensor — if you move before it wakes
[Pre-Chorus] (Breathy, layered harmonies)
Scanner rumors cut the dark — blink, blink, blink
Hold the steady in your veins, don’t let it sink
A single step, a smaller sound — that’s how you pass
Slide under the red, don’t look back at glass
[Chorus] (Hook, with chopped vox on final phrase)
Get out now — get out now — you’ll be barred if you stay
Get out now — leave the night, step into day
Don’t drown in doubt, don’t let the gate snap shut
Get out now — get out now — before they stamp your cut
[Verse 3 / Stakes] (Short, stark, urgent)
If you’re barred you lose the shows, the name on the line
The letters you saved for the morning — they’ll fade to sign
No more backstage laughter, no more midnight calls
Just a stamped memory behind fluorescent walls
Lose the small rituals — the coffee cup, your chair
Lose that quiet badge of proof that said you were there
The worst is not the door itself but what it takes away
A life rewired into the word they print — “No way”
[Bridge] (Action, cathartic — production cue: smash the latch, synth swell)
Smash the latch — not metaphor, hand on metal, breath
Slide the bolt, slip the seam, carve a path through theft
Feel the grit under your nails, the buzzer try to shout
You’re a shadow through the turn, you’re slipping past the doubt
(Repeat softly) Don’t let them bind your name—don’t let them frame you out
[Chorus — Final] (Full production, layered vocals)
Get out now — get out now — you’ll be barred if y
