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The Meat Grinder

[Intro] [Style: Industrial bitcrushed sample, pneumatic hiss, electronic static, sudden sub-bass drop] [Scream: GO!] [Verse 1] [Style: Rhythmic aggressive spoken delivery, fast staccato cadence, heavy syncopated riffs] Clock in! Cash out! Punch the card! The pavement is cracked and the air is hard! They don’t see a face, they don’t see a name, Just a cog in the wheel of a desperate game! File down your edges to fit in the slot, Give 'em every single piece of the soul you got! But the gears don't care if you bleed or you cry, They just grease the tracks as the bodies go by! [Pre-Chorus] [Style: Building unhinged screaming, accelerating aggression, continuous double-bass drums] We are the fuel! We are the coal! They feed the furnace with the human soul! Turn the crank! Tighten the screw! Now the machine is coming for YOU! [Chorus] [Style: Devastating half-time breakdown rhythm, brutal death-growls, slamming chugs, crushing bass wall] GRIND! DOWN! TO THE MARROW AND BONE! (FACE THE MACHINE!) COLD! IN A KINGDOM OF STONE! (BURN IT CLEAN!) WE ARE THE FUEL! WE ARE THE RUST! TURNED! FROM MEN! INTO NOTHING BUT DUST! [Verse 2] [Style: Bouncing nu-metal groove, deep distorted bass, aggressive rhythmic delivery] Barcodes stamped on the back of the neck, Living your life for a fraction of a check! Optimized, streamlined, picked clean, and hollow, Choking on the bitter pill they force you to swallow! You’re a number on a ledger, a line on a screen, The sweetest meat for the global machine! [Chorus] [Style: Devastating half-time breakdown rhythm, brutal death-growls, slamming chugs, crushing bass wall] GRIND! DOWN! TO THE MARROW AND BONE! (FACE THE MACHINE!) COLD! IN A KINGDOM OF STONE! (BURN IT CLEAN!) WE ARE THE FUEL! WE ARE THE RUST! TURNED! FROM MEN! INTO NOTHING BUT DUST! [Bridge] [Style: Half-time sludgy breakdown groove, devastating pitch-bent riffs, guttural call-and-response growls] COMPLY! (Feed the machine!) CONSUME! (Feed the machine!) EXPIRE! (Feed the machine!) DIE! [Scream: SHUT. IT. DOWN!] [Outro] [Style: Unhinged blast-beat drums, chaotic guitar noise, abrupt cut to static loop] [Fade out to low mechanical hum]