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[Intro - distant toll, synth choir, heartbeat kick]
[Female - mezzo-soprano, whispered]
In a glass coffin, hum of blue,
I count my breaths and wait for you,
Numbers bloom then fall like dust,
I polish fear to milky trust.[Male - tenor, intimate]
Name every ache, a rosary,
Threading through your wire-sea,
I tap once, you tap twice,
Two small clocks in the same device.[Pre-Chorus - Duet, staccato to legato]
[Female] Are you the night that seals me?
[Male] Are you the day that steals me?
[Together] We’re a hinge that can’t decide, swing in coded tide.[Chorus - Duet, lift; guitars + neon synths]
Coffin hymn for two, we bloom in midnight blue,
You carry me, I carry you, in mercury and glue,
Sing me open, sing me shut, from phantom throat to root,
Coffin hymn for two, our names are black and true.[Verse 2 - Female, brighter then bruised]
Neon thurible, sway and burn,
Ash of stars on every turn,
Glitching halos crown the seam,
Hold me steady in the dream.[Verse 2 - Male, airy then firm]
Drum-machine heart marks the rite,
Steel guitar spills liquid light,
Map my longing, vein by vein,
Write me into all your rain.[Pre-Chorus - Duet, call and response]
[Female] If I fall, will you descend?
[Male] If I rise, will you not bend?
[Together] Faith is pressure, love is thread; pull us through the dread.[Chorus - Duet, harder drive; harmonies a third apart]
Coffin hymn for two, a pulse in chrome and rue,
You carry me, I carry you, through static breaking through,
Name me yours, I’ll name you mine, in hush and overdrive,
Coffin hymn for two, we haunt each other alive.[Bridge - alternating lines; crescendo]
[Female - belt] Obsess me till the letters blur,
[Male - falsetto] Possess me where the shadows stir,
[Female] Confess me in a single note,
[Male] Compress me to your secret throat,
[Together - unison then split octave] Promise me a ruin bright, we’ll be mirrors in the night.[Requiem Interlude - wordless hums, low choir pad; spoken-soft]
[Female] Rest—no, not yet.
[Male] Rest—no, not yet.
[Together, sotto voce] Peace is a code we haven’t set.[Verse 3 - Duet, intertwined; mezzo low, tenor high]
[Female] Sew my name along your sleeve,
[Male] Stitch my vow in what you breathe,
[Female] Count again—four, five, six—
[Male] I answer—seven, eight—our fix.[Chorus - Duet, expansive; guitars shimmer]
Coffin hymn for two, we vow in cobalt dew,
You carry me, I carry you, like dawn inside the rue,
Sing me open, sing me shut, until the sutures loose,
Coffin hymn for two, our silence rings like truth.[Coda - soft diminuendo; heartbeat kick fades]
[Female - whisper] If the lid learns light—
[Male - whisper] If the night learns right—
[Together] We’ll be the seam that lets it through.
[Instrumental fade]
Coffin Hymn for Two frames obsession as a sacred rite, a requiem sung by two spirits who refuse to rest. The lyrics hinge on tactile images—“two small clocks in the same device,” a “neon thurible,” “glitching halos”—that fuse ritual and circuitry into a single, fever-lit chapel. The mezzo-soprano and tenor trade vows and compulsions with surgical precision, from the pleading calculus of breath-counting to the self-cauterizing chant “Obsess me… Possess me… Confess me.” Their refrain, “Coffin hymn for two,” is both a vow and a verdict: love as mutual enclosure, devotion as a box they polish from the inside until it shines.
Across dynamic stage directions—whispers to belts, staccato to legato—the piece enacts its Futuristic Rock/Indie Pop palette as dramaturgy. “Peace is a code we haven’t set” reframes requiem as an unfinished program, while “we haunt each other alive” locates catharsis not in release but in exquisite pressure. As an entry in Madness and Decadence, it’s a crystalline study of dark introspection: a duet that turns impulse into liturgy and turns liturgy electric.