Broken Battery

[keep vocal in the original range through the song]
[🎹 GENRE 1: INTIMATE ART-POP / DREAM BALLAD]
[🌑 Feel: vulnerable, reflective, quietly ashamed]
[Soft piano, analog synth haze, heartbeat kick]

[Spoken, low]
Most people need
a little love
to feel full.

[Pause]

I think mine leaks.

[Verse 1]

You can fill somebody gently
With a hand, a home, a name
A few good hearts can keep them glowing
Like a steady little flame

They get one call
One kiss
One room
And somehow that can carry through

But mine keeps flashing red again
No matter what I pour into

[Backing Vocals]
Low charge
Low charge
Again

[Pre-Chorus: strings slowly rising]

You say you love me
I believe you too

But the meter drops
Before the sentence
Even makes it through

So I reach for another spark
Another voice
Another light

Trying to charge
A broken thing
All night

[⚡ TRANSITION: tape-stop → distorted power surge]

[🔥 GENRE 2: Phonk]
[⚠️ Feel: restless, compulsive, frantic]
[Fast drums, distorted synth bass, angular guitar]

[Chorus]

🔋 MY LOVE BATTERY WON’T HOLD A CHARGE

YOU CAN FILL IT UP
BUT IT FALLS APART

One heart
Two hearts
Ten in a line

Everybody’s voltage
Still can’t make it mine

I want all the warmth
All the eyes
All the proof

And every time I chase it
I damage something true

[Gang Vocals]
CHARGE ME!
CHARGE ME!
CHARGE ME!

[Lead]
God, I wish
I didn’t need this much

[Verse 2: fast, breathless]

I collect affection
Like emergency power
Little bursts of heaven
That expire by the hour

A message hits
I feel alive
Then silence comes
And there it dies

So I go searching
For another source
Another hand
Another set of eyes

[Backing Vocals]
Connect!
Disconnect!
Connect!
Again!

[Lead]
And somewhere in the cycle
I start hurting
People I never meant to bend

[🎭 TRANSITION: punk instruments cut → grand piano flourish + choir hit]

[👑 GENRE 3: Riddim]
[✨ Feel: dramatic, self-aware, darkly flamboyant]
[Stomping piano, brass stabs, glam guitar, stacked choir]

[Verse 3]

Ladies and gentlemen!
Step right up!
Observe the marvelous bottomless cup!

Pour in affection!
Pour in praise!
Watch it evaporate
In seventeen ways!

[Backing Choir]
More!
More!
More!

[Lead]
Applause from the balcony
Kisses backstage
A thousand bright faces
Still nothing will stay

[Brass flourish]

I take every beautiful person
And turn them into proof

Then hate myself
For turning tenderness
Into something I can use

[Pre-Chorus: dramatic stops]

Maybe I call it abundance

[Choir]
How grand!

[Lead]
When sometimes it’s fear
With excellent branding

Maybe I call it freedom

[Choir]
How brave!

[Lead]
While running from silence
I cannot behave

[Huge glam-rock chorus]

MY LOVE BATTERY WON’T HOLD A CHARGE

AND I’VE MADE EVERY HEART
WORK TWICE AS HARD

Nobody should have to shine
Every night

Just to stop me
From fearing the dark

[🌊 TRANSITION: crowd noise dissolves → reverb wash → slow bass pulse]

[💙 GENRE 4: post-hardcore]
[🕯️ Feel: remorseful, tender, accepting]
[Rhodes piano, warm bass, strings, gospel choir]

[Bridge: soft vocal]

Maybe this isn’t hunger for love

Maybe it’s fear
Of being alone

Maybe I keep asking
Other people’s arms

To make somewhere
Inside me
Feel like home

[Choir, soft]
You are loved
You are loved

[Lead]
But love cannot stay
If I keep testing it

And no one should become
A power plant

Just to prove
I still exist

[Build: strings + choir rising]

I know the pattern
I know the cost

Beautiful people
Becoming exhausted

Trying to charge
What I keep draining myself

[🌌 FINAL HYBRID: ALL FOUR GENRES MERGE]
[Piano + punk drums + glam guitar + gospel choir]

[Final Chorus]

🔋 MY LOVE BATTERY WON’T HOLD A CHARGE

BUT I DON’T WANT TO MAKE
THAT EVERYBODY’S JOB

To prove I’m wanted
To prove I’m seen
To keep some current
Running through me

I don’t want affection
To become fuel I consume

I don’t want every person
Who loves me
To become another room

I tear apart

[Choir]
No more!

[Lead]
Just to keep the lights on

[Choir]
No more!

[Lead]
I want to learn
How to sit in the dark

Without setting fire
To everyone

[Outro: Genre 1 returns, piano only]

[Soft Vocal]
Maybe one day
Love can enter

And stay

Maybe one day
I won’t need
Everybody

To prove
I’m okay

[🔋 Tiny power-down tone]

[Whispered]
Low charge.

[Final unresolved chord]