Much like with the first Five Nights fan song I made, I wasn't planning on making this. I played Sister Location on Halloween for the first time, and while I feel that it's not my kind of game, the story was inspiring. The feeling of being trapped, the feeling of time running out... Those feelings brought me back to the first time I played the series and why it spurred me to make music in the first place.
"Alive" is one last song about the fight for survival in a ghastly deathtrap. When life seems nearly over, the protagonist can keep on fighting until the end. There is, of course, a horrible fate that lies at the conclusion, but not yet. You haven't taken me yet. I'm still alive.
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Instrumental:
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The song will also be available on my upcoming album, coming to streaming music services in December.
Lyrics:
Vessels of enjoyment
For the servants of my pain
Ghosts of rusted silhouettes
The system knows my name
Who lies behind the eyes that always follow?
Is there a heart inside or are you hollow?
Puppets pulled by strings
A cursed circus underground
Find escape in silence
Haunted echoes in the sound
If I'm the ending to this exhibition
Survival overcomes all superstition
Free I want to break free
From knowing you
Somewhere in the dark a voice is screaming
One of us is going to leave here bleeding
Breathe I'm trying to breathe
Inside of this
Trap you set to keep me from the daylight
Fighting for my life tonight, 'cause I'm still alive
Portraits of the monsters
Show the malice by design
Keeping onwards fearful that
I'm running out of time
The struggle to escape is growing harder
This victim of the night won't be a martyr
I am staying alive
For even just one more moment
The chance won't pass me by
The passing of time
Ghosts in the shadows watch me
Tonight I can't seem to survive