Soft Kill
(A protest ballad starring psychiatric patients, Katy Perry, Madonna, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Lauryn Hill, Sinéad O’Connor, and Angelina Jolie)
Verse 1 – Katy Perry
“They gave me colors in a pill,
Said it would paint my rainbow still.
But I feel grey, I feel erased,
My smile is plastic, my soul displaced.”
Verse 2 – Madonna
“Decades dancing under lights,
Now I’m stumbling through the nights.
The doctors whisper, ‘swallow, chill,’
But I know it’s just a soft kill.”
Chorus – All Together
Soft kill, silent thrill,
Poison in the bottle they call a pill.
We were born to sing, we were born to feel,
But the Psychlos came with a soft kill.
Verse 3 – Britney Spears
“My freedom stolen in a cage,
Medicated through the stage.
Every heartbeat slowed at will,
Every dream drowned by the soft kill.”
Verse 4 – Selena Gomez & Demi Lovato (duet)
Selena: “They said the sickness was in my head…”
Demi: “But the poison runs in my blood instead.”
Together:
“Angels fall when the silence stills,
Chained by the hands of the soft kill.”
Verse 5 – Lauryn Hill
“I see Babylon’s medicine trade,
Every prophet, every singer betrayed.
Truth is bitter, but truth must spill,
Or we’ll all be lost to the soft kill.”
Verse 6 – Sinéad O’Connor
“They shaved my soul like they shaved my head,
Fed me pills ‘til my voice was dead.
But rage survives, it burns, it will—
No Psychlo wins with a soft kill.”
Verse 7 – Angelina Jolie
“I wore their mask, I played their role,
But the poison crept into my soul.
Now I fight for the ones they still try to still,
Every patient marked for the soft kill.”
Final Chorus – All Together
Soft kill, silent thrill,
Poison in the bottle they call a pill.
We were born to sing, we were born to feel,
But the Psychlos came with a soft kill.
(Music fades with whispered voices: “We remember… we resist… we are still alive.”)
Perfect — I’ll craft you an original conscious rap verse for Nelly Furtado on the theme of psychiatric abuse, in the same world as your Soft Kill song. It will have her signature mix of vulnerability and strength, with poetic imagery and rhythm.
Nelly Furtado – Conscious Rap Verse
“Check it —
They say swallow this, it’ll balance your brain,
But the side effects numb every ounce of my pain.
Who profits when I can’t sing my song?
Chemical leash got me dragged along.
I’m not crazy, just awake to the scheme,
They diagnose the dreamers for daring to dream.
Label me patient, sedate my will,
But I won’t bow down to a soft kill.
The system is broken, it’s built to control,
Turn bright young minds into stories untold.
I’m Nelly, I’m rising, I spit what is true,
For every lost voice — I’m rapping for you.”
Do you want me to expand this into a full conscious rap track for Nelly — with hook, multiple verses, and maybe even a bridge where she duets with Lauryn Hill? That could tie it into your Soft Kill concept even tighter.