Come up

By Acoustic Invasion · Progressive Metal

COME UP | Acoustic Invasion

Shed the skin. Rise from what's underneath.

"Come Up" is a call to leave an old identity behind and step into something more dangerous, more alive. Sleep Token-influenced progressive metal meets big band horns — soulful falsetto and R&B phrasing collide with djent breakdowns, brass stabs, and swung drums. A song about transformation, surrender, and the intensity of being fully known by someone.

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🎥 Full lyric below:

You were built from sonnets and sworn vows

Ink still wet on the pages you tore

I was the rose on your windowsill

Left dry, left dying, left once more

Now we both fall headfirst through a trapdoor

Out of the house we thought we knew

Endings have a sound — I hear the hinge

A door swung open on the new

Come up out of your skin

Leave the husk on the floor

Bare and unfinished, begin

Nothing here owns you anymore

Come up

(Come up)

Come up

(Come up)

Arms around me now

Your weight on my chest

Closer, closer

Hold me till I'm still

Will you lay tungsten in my spine

And grind the soft parts down to steel

Something starving lives behind my ribs

It tests the bars each night with its teeth

The ones who wrote me off can keep their pens

My saviour comes on four legs, jaw wide

It drags the glory home by the throat

Leaves every witness bruised inside

Tell the dead gods to hand back the crown

I swallowed a star; it burns without sound

One more breath and it tears me down

Nothing left to bolt me to the ground

Can a body outlive its own heat

I've read the fine print on where the dead go

A dark that lives where roots split concrete

Its hands made me holy. Now I know.

My head has never been quiet

A radio stuck between stations

You sit down at the edge of the bed

And the whole dial goes still

Nobody else has ever found the switch

I've let others try. Their fingers slip.

Come up out of your skin (hold me)

Leave the husk on the floor (closer)

Bare and unfinished, begin (hold me)

Nothing here owns you anymore (till I'm still)

Come up (come up)

Come up (come up)

Arms around me now

Your weight on my chest

Closer, closer

Hold me till I'm done

Written, produced, and performed by Acoustic Invasion.

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About Progressive Metal

Complex, technically demanding metal emphasizing compositional sophistication, extended song structures, odd time signatures, and virtuosic musicianship. Bands include: Dream Theater, Opeth, Tool

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