HELL ANSWERS BACK // FT. Starless

[Signature Intro Drop] [Reversed Cathedral Bell] [Female Whisper] Veni. [Male Whisper] Non serviam. [Three-note horn motif] [Female] Call once— I answer twice. [Chain snap] [Female + Choir] HELL ANSWERS BACK. [Instrumental Drop] Ah-ah-AHH Ah-ah-AHH [Verse 1] You drew a circle on the concrete With gasoline instead of chalk Said, “If they built a door above us, We’ll make something underneath it talk.” Your hands were warm, The room was freezing, Every candle leaned our way Like the dark had learned our breathing And was waiting for a name. [Male Whisper] Aperi. [Female] Not yet. [Pre-Chorus] No halo No alibi No saint left To testify If heaven wants obedience, It picked the wrong two souls tonight. [Chorus] Hell answers back When you whisper my name One spark in the dark And the walls catch flame Let the holy water blacken Let the bells run off the track If heaven shuts the door on us— Hell answers back. [Main Drop] [Female Vocal Hook] Ah-ah-AHH Ah-ah-AHH [Male Growl] Non serviam. [Female] HELL ANSWERS BACK. [Instrumental] Three-note motif expands into full lead melody. [Verse 2] We kissed beneath a broken fresco, Gold leaf falling through your hair Every painted eye above us Looked away but stayed aware. You said, “Tell me what you’re scared of.” I said, “Nothing I can name.” Then the floor moved like a heartbeat And the choir changed its key. [Male Whisper] Ignis vivus. [Female] I heard it. [Pre-Chorus 2] No pardon No retreat Your pulse Against my teeth If fear was meant to stop us, Why does danger sound this sweet? [Chorus] Hell answers back When you whisper my name One spark in the dark And the walls catch flame Let the holy water blacken Let the bells run off the track If heaven shuts the door on us— Hell answers back. [Evolution Drop] [Male Chant] NON SERVIAM NON GENUFLECTO [Female] Again. [Choir] NON SERVIAM [Female] Higher. [Female Vocal Hook - octave lift] Ah-ah-AHH Ah-ah-AHH [Harder Kick Switch] [Female] HELL ANSWERS BACK. [Instrumental] Main melody mutates with chopped horn replies, choir stabs and metallic guitar hits. [Breakdown] [Kick stops] [Male Whisper] Deus mortuus. [Female Whisper] Then who kept the lights on? [Silence] [Low Voice] You did. [Impact] [Female - intimate] There’s ash upon your shoulders, There’s blood beneath the gold, There’s something in this room tonight That doesn’t want a soul. So take the crown they never gave you, Bend the wire, Make it fit. If this is what they call corruption— I want all of it. [Bridge - melodic lift] I don’t need a stairway upward, I don’t need a hand from white. Build me something out of thunder, Give the dark a shape tonight. Let the stained glass fall around us, Let it cut the floor to red. Every shard becomes a mirror For the things they thought were dead. And if the stars refuse to watch us, If the moon turns on its back, Say my name into the silence— Hear what answers back. [Final Build] [Reversed Cathedral Bell] [Female Whisper - left] Veni. [Male Whisper - right] Non serviam. [Three-note horn motif] [Female] One breath. [Kick] One match. [Kick] One name. [Dead silence] [Female] OPEN IT. [Final Drop] [Full Choir] HELL ANSWERS BACK. [Female Vocal Hook] Ah-ah-AHH Ah-ah-AHH [Female] When you call me through the flame, I return without a name. [Male Choir] NON SERVIAM. [Female] Break the seal, Bend the black, Turn the whole damn sky to ash. [Full main melody + hardest kick] [Female + Choir] HELL ANSWERS BACK. [Male] Ignis vivus. [Female] No white flag. No holy ground. No gate can hold What you woke now. [Choir] HELL ANSWERS BACK. [Female - soaring] If they bury us below, We become the fire they know. If they silence every track— We come louder. We come back. [Final Impact] [Female + Choir] HELL ANSWERS BACK. [Outro] [Fire crackle] [Cathedral stone collapsing in the distance] [Male Whisper] Non serviam. [Female Whisper] Good. [Reversed Bell] [Female] Now close the door.