[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro – Low Frequency Drone]
[Sub Bass Rumble, Distant Siren Synth, Slow Kick Pulse]
[Whispered Vocal]
Ten to the ninth…
(And counting…)
There’s one for you
(And two for me)
… let’s see…
(Where we’re we?)
… oh yeah…
There’s one for you
(And two for me)
[Verse 1]
Stack it in shadows
(Hidden in code)
Silent accumulations
(Unseen load)
Digits like daggers
(Cut through the crowd)
Numbers get louder
(Voices not allowed)
[Pre-Chorus]
You can’t feel it
(But it’s there)
In the system
(In the air)
[Chorus]
1 with 9 zeros
(Nowhere near equal)
A billion is power
(Devours the people)
Scale it again
(Out of control)
Numbers don’t end
(They swallow the whole)
[Instrumental Break]
[Distorted Guitar, Glitch Percussion, Organ Dissonance]
[Verse 2]
From data to dollars
(From breath into debt)
Quantified lives
(In digital nets)
Billion decisions
(Made in a blink)
While billions of people
(Don’t even get a drink)
[Bridge – Breakdown]
Raise a toast
(To the most)
[Percussion Drops Out, Sub Bass Pulse Only]
[Spoken Vocal – Cold, Measured]
Ten to the ninth
(Then ten to the tenth…)
Push it higher
(No consequence…)
[Build: Glitching Synth Arpeggios, Rising Noise]
[Chorus – Extended]
1 with 9 zeros
(Nowhere near equal)
A billion is power
(Devours the people)
Multiply, divide
(Split and control)
Add to the top
(Subtract from the whole)
[Collapse Section]
[Drums Half-Time, Bass Distorted]
Count it up…
(Watch it fall…)
Too big to fail…
(Too big for all…)
[Final Chorus – Dark Reprise]
1 with 9 zeros
(Endless cathedral)
A billion is silence
(Erase the people)
Stack it again
(Until it breaks)
Numbers ascend
(That’s what it takes)
[Outro – Dissolution]
[Low Piano Notes, Sub Bass Fading, Static Noise]
There’s one for you
(And two for me)
… let’s see…
(Where we’re we?)
… oh yeah…
There’s one for you
(And two for me)
Ten to the ninth…
(Still counting…)
[Flatline Tone, Silence]
From the album “Billions“