Lyrics
[VERSE — quiet, haunted, cello leading] [Cello intro, slow and mournful] I've been here beneath the soil Waiting in the cold Something stirring in my skin Something I can't hold They looked at me and saw a fruit They called me by the wrong name Said I tasted just like something else Like I was all the same [PRE-CHORUS — violin enters, tension coiling] [Violin builds underneath] But I felt it in the pressing Felt it in the crush Something dark was waking up Something in a rush I tried to hold it together I tried to stay the same But the dark doesn't ask permission And it doesn't play your game [CHORUS — full orchestral rock explosion] [Cello, violin, and electric guitar all collide] I am the grapevine Tearing through the ground I am the monster That you thought you'd drowned You called me something lesser You called me something tame But I've been in the darkness And I don't feel the same I am the grapevine I am what survives You pushed me to the bottom Now watch what comes alive [VERSE — violin carries the melody, more strained] [Violin solo between lines, cracks forming] You wrote me off as something soft Something sweet and small Citrus paradisi That's not my name at all I'm older than your hybrid fruit I'm older than your lies I've been running through these roots Since before your sunrise [PRE-CHORUS — strings and drums building together] And I felt it in the fermenting Felt it in the dark Something ancient broke the surface Clawing from my heart I tried to stay familiar I tried to keep my shape But the vine doesn't stop growing And the dark doesn't wait [CHORUS] [Cello, violin, and electric guitar all collide] I am the grapevine Tearing through the ground I am the monster That you thought you'd drowned You called me something lesser You called me something tame But I've been in the darkness And I don't feel the same I am the grapevine I am what survives You pushed me to the bottom Now watch what comes alive [GUITAR SOLO — raw and aggressive, mid transformation] [Electric guitar solo, starts clean then distorts and breaks apart — mirroring the corruption happening inside the grape] [BRIDGE — THE GLITCH. Cello drones underneath. Everything corrupts.] [Single cello note sustaining, low and wrong] You called me grapefruit. Citrus paradisi. Sweet. Tart. Bitter. A hybrid from Barbados. That is not my name. I don't sting on the tongue. I don't interact with your medications — No. Wait. I do now. Something changed in the dark. Something changed in the crush. I am not what you planted. I am not what you named. I am what ferments when you leave something alone long enough to become dangerous. [Violin screams in — chaotic, dissonant, before everything drops to silence] [CHORUS — heavier, mutated, sinister. Full orchestra + distorted guitar] [Cello, violin, and guitar all pushing against each other] I am the grapevine Ripping through the ground I am the monster And I will not be drowned You called me something lesser You pushed me in the earth But what came up from the darkness Has forgotten what it's worth I am the grapevine I am what remains You made me into something That will never be the same [OUTRO — cello alone, slow, descending into silence] [Just cello. Low. Final.] Not grapefruit. Never grapefruit. I am what the darkness grew. I am wine now. And wine remembers everything you did. [Cello fades to silence]