Ultraviolet Ritual

[Intro] Come closer, mon cœur, let the purple lights talk Velvet on the walls, and the shadows walk I smile like a priest with a poisoned key Welcome to the lower half of your dream with me [Verse 1] I glide in the smoke, all silk and a threat Calm as a blade that you haven’t met yet French tongue, cold grin, “oui, oui,” I play Turn your fear into perfume, then I lead you away Every glance is a pact, every pulse a door I’m the kind of confusion you come back for Lounge on fire, but the ash looks couture La vie est belle, if you like it unsure You ask what I want, I say “follow the sound” Then the bass starts breathing like a beast underground Intelligent teeth with a lover’s tone I don’t need a crown when the room’s my throne [Rap Section] Step, then slip, I’m the script, I’m the glitch Mind like a razor in a velvet stitch Flip that thought, make it spin, make it bloom I turn your reason into incense in the room Rime après rime, I’m a nocturne thief Put philosophy in a kiss, let it crack, let it speak No stress, just finesse, with a serpent’s grin I can sell you the void and still let you win Italian in the air, “sei bella,” I say Then I bend the whole night like a wire in play Albanian heat, “zemër,” soft and low But my eyes say cold things that you already know Underground sermon, I’m the pulse in the dirt Every word is a wound that can also convert Laugh while I’m lying? Non, baby, I’m art A little bit of heaven with a splintered heart [Pre-Drop] Wait Don’t look away now Feel that pressure in the walls? It’s just the night learning your name Closer Breathe slower The mirror is starting to move And I’m still smiling [Drop] We go down, down, down in the ultraviolet Neon saints in a trance and they don’t even fight it Boom, boom, bass like a ritual drum Say my name once and the blackroom comes Danse, danse, move like you’re under spell Pretty little chaos in a velvet well I taste the panic when the lights go wild Screw your mind like a halo, then I kiss the child Danger in the groove, and the groove is divine All of you mine for the length of the rhyme Shh, feel that shock in the smoke-filled air I’m a beautiful problem and I’m already there [Verse 2] Now the room gets stranger, the mirrors lean in Faces turn liquid at the edge of the gin I’m charming in the wreckage, immaculate, sly Speaking in riddles while the ceiling burns violet high Spanish in the static, “ven,” come close I can make your heartbeat dance like a ghost We laugh at the abyss like it’s dinner for two Then the floor starts opening under the blue I’m not your salvation, I’m your elegant doubt A candle in the mouth of a blackout You want truth? Here, take a little illusion Reality slips when I enter the fusion I’m smooth with the venom, precise with the bait Playful and deadly, that’s my favorite state Soft-spoken tyrant in a shimmering coat I don’t pull you under, I just loosen the boat [Lounge Breakdown] Pour another slow one, let the trumpet sigh Smoke curls gold while the hours go by Le rouge in the lamp, and the leather sings Every broken little star wants expensive things Mon amour, stay a while in the ache of the room Let the bassline bloom like a black velvet bloom I stroke the silence with a lacquered hand Make a religion out of what you can’t understand You tremble, I smirk, the piano bleeds The room is a chapel of decadent needs [Psychedelic Collapse Section] Spin— Split— Saint— Static— Spin, spin, split— the ceiling unthreads I am many mouths in a room of red heads One voice says come, one voice says leave One voice is laughing inside my sleeve Hey— Hey— Zemër, zemër— Fracture the pattern, shatter the names Purple smoke eats the shape of the flames Je suis perdu? Non— I’m the loss itself A jeweled hallucination on a sinking shelf Dance— Dance— Don’t wake up— Hands on the air, hearts in the static Beauty turns feral, ecstatic, erratic We’re all going sideways through a neon prayer I kiss the breakdown and it answers there [Final Chorus] Down, down, down in the ultraviolet Still I’m smiling while the whole room riots Feel that love turn strange in the strobe-lit surge We rise by falling, then dissolve in the urge Danse, danse, until the fear feels sweet Hasta la muerte in the pulse beneath Say my name like a final vow I lead you deeper and I lead you now [Outro] Lights out soon, only smoke and chrome I leave a little silence where I call it home You’ll remember my laugh in the afterglow And the way I made the night say no, then go