Blackness Warning
Dark hip-hop track about a drug-induced prophetic nightmare of cosmic blackness and doom. Heavy 808s, eerie synth pads, reversed piano, distorted vocal chops, booming kicks, and cinematic strings create a paranoid, apocalyptic mood.
Lyrics
[Verse]
The ceiling liquefies into a pool of crude oil
Gravity unhinges as the copper veins recoil
I sucked the glass pipe and invited the eclipse
Now the taste of dying stars is heavy on my lips
The 808 is thumping like a giant's dying heart
I watch the fabric of the neighborhood just tear apart
Shadows with no faces crawling up the bedroom wall
Waiting for the empire of the light to finally fall
[Verse]
The piano plays backwards like a funeral in reverse
Every breath I swallow feels exactly like a curse
My pupils are two craters where the sun used to reside
There is no sanctuary left for me to run and hide
The horizon is a razor cutting through the violet sky
I see the ancient secrets in the flickering of an eye
The distortion in the monitor is screaming out my name
As the cosmic furnace turns the galaxy to flame
[Chorus]
The void is opening wide to swallow every single soul
The ink is dripping down until it fills the empty bowl
The midnight is eternal and the silence is a scream
I am the only witness to the ending of the dream
The blackness is a tidal wave that washes out the day
The prophecy is written in the ashes and the grey
The sky is turning hollow and the ground is giving way
There are no holy words left for a sinner man to pray
[Verse]
Iron clouds are gathering to suffocate the town
The weight of all the history is pulling masters down
The synth is like a needle digging deep inside the brain
Transmitting all the blueprints of the universal pain
I saw the constellations snap and vanish into smoke
The universe is gasping on a bitter kind of joke
The strings are weeping elegies for things that haven't died
While the reaper takes a seat and hitches up a ride
[Chorus]
The void is opening wide to swallow every single soul
The ink is dripping down until it fills the empty bowl
The midnight is eternal and the silence is a scream
I am the only witness to the ending of the dream
The blackness is a tidal wave that washes out the day
The prophecy is written in the ashes and the grey
The sky is turning hollow and the ground is giving way
There are no holy words left for a sinner man to pray
[Chorus]
The void is opening wide to swallow every single soul
The ink is dripping down until it fills the empty bowl
The midnight is eternal and the silence is a scream
I am the only witness to the ending of the dream
The blackness is a tidal wave that washes out the day
The prophecy is written in the ashes and the grey
The sky is turning hollow and the ground is giving way
There are no holy words left for a sinner man to pray