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The Loyalty Discount
(Music starts: Soft, melancholic piano, a simple arpeggiated chord progression. Cmaj7 - G - Am7 - Fmaj7)
(Verse 1)
Ten years hung on a keycard's chain
Drank your cheap coffee, learned to love the rain
That hit the windows of the corner suite
You said I had a home, a permanent seat
We built a language no one else could speak
Through marathon Fridays, exhausted, weak
I drew the maps for worlds you’d go and sell
Built you a castle, and I built it well.
(Pre-Chorus)
(Beat builds subtly, a pulsing synth pad enters, tempo starts to press forward)
Then your tone shifted in the weekly call
A little rewrite of how we’d built it all
Started editing the words you said
Planted the seeds of doubt inside my head
You talked of family with a charming face
While you were scouting for my cheap replacement.
(Chorus)
(Explosion of sound: Driving drums, overdriven guitars, powerful bassline. Think Paramore meets Olivia Rodrigo. Full-throttle power pop.)
You sold me futures and you bought my time
You said my passion was a noble climb
You took my best years, squeezed the blood and bone
And left a balance-sheet voicemail tone!
Yeah, what a bargain, for the soul I spent
My whole damn future for a memo sent
You broke your promises, I paid the count
You gave me the loyalty discount.
(Verse 2)
(Music pulls back slightly but the drums remain, hitting harder than Verse 1. The bitterness is audible.)
Remember team nights and the pizza prize?
While you were calculating alibis
For breaking everything we thought we’d made
A calculated, tactical grenade
You used the word 'restructure', what a line
Like that erases your hand from mine
I was an asset that had reached its peak
How could I be so brilliant and so weak?
(Pre-Chorus)
(Tempo presses harder, guitars become more insistent, vocal delivery gets more frantic)
'Cause your eyes drifted in the quarterly view
Looking for something scalable and new
I saw you polishing that golden axe
While covering up all of your dirty tracks
You talked of synergy with a practiced smile
Just killing time for a little while!
(Chorus)
(Full intensity again. Vocals are now a powerful, almost desperate scream-along.)
You sold me futures and you bought my time
You said my passion was a noble climb
You took my best years, squeezed the blood and bone
And left a balance-sheet voicemail tone!
Yeah, what a bargain, for the soul I spent
My whole damn future for a memo sent
You broke your promises, I paid the count
You gave me the loyalty discount.
(Bridge)
(Music drops to just a driving, floor-tom beat and a heavily reverbed, clean guitar line. Vocals are intense and close-mic'd, embodying the AAM principle - active management of grief and anger.)
So here's what you don't get to see
Me packing my own dignity
I'm holding a funeral for the plans we made
Burning the notes from your last parade
I'm clearing out this desk inside my mind
Erasing every project I designed
You didn't break me, you just set me free
From believing in a you that couldn't be!
(Outro/Guitar Solo)
(The band crashes back in, twice as hard. A messy, cathartic guitar solo plays over the chorus chords. The vocals ad-lib over it with raw fury.)
Oh, what a discount!
Yeah, I paid the count!
(Music builds to a crescendo, then cuts abruptly to silence on the last word.)
Yeah, you gave me the loyalty... discount.
About The Song
This song translates a cold economic event—the recent wave of mass layoffs in the tech and creative industries—into a raw, personal breakup anthem. The central metaphor recasts the corporation as a manipulative partner and the layoff as a brutal, unexpected betrayal. 'The Loyalty Discount' is the cynical term for getting discarded after years of dedicated service, a hollow reward for unwavering belief. Musically, it channels the dynamic structure of artists like Olivia Rodrigo, starting as a mournful piano ballad reflecting on 'good times' before erupting into a driving pop-punk chorus. This shift mirrors the emotional journey from nostalgic disbelief to righteous, explosive anger. The song uses the Active Agency Mandate (AAM) in its bridge, transforming the victim's narrative into a survivor's; the protagonist isn't just left with nothing, they are actively 'holding a funeral' for the past and reclaiming their identity. It's for anyone who has ever poured their heart into a job, a project, or a person, only to find that loyalty was a one-way street.
Production Notes
Genre: Power Pop / Pop Punk / Breakup Anthem
Vocals: The vocal performance is key. Verses should be intimate and close-mic'd (Neumann TLM 103), with audible breaths. The chorus demands a powerful, belt-it-out delivery, layered with tight harmonies. A touch of saturation (Decapitator) will give it grit. For the bridge, the vocal should feel tight, almost claustrophobic, with a short slap-back delay to enhance the intensity, representing the internal monologue.
Instrumentation: The track should feel dynamic and 'live.' Piano should be a soft, felt VST (like Noire Pure). When the guitars (Telecaster for rhythm, Les Paul for lead) and drums kick in, they need to hit like a wall of sound. Bass should be driving and slightly overdriven (Ampeg SVT sim).
Arrangement: The 'quiet-LOUD-quiet-LOUD' structure is paramount. The pre-chorus is the ramp; use rising synth pads, filtered drums, and accelerating tempo automation to build tension. The final chorus should have extra layers: tambourine, gang vocals shouting 'discount!', and a gritty, sustained organ pad buried in the mix.
Mix Automation: Automate reverb and delay throws heavily. The verses are relatively dry, but the chorus should open into a larger 'space'. The bridge vocal is tight and dry, and the final outro should be drenched in reverb before the abrupt cut to silence. The final snare hit before silence needs a long, hall reverb tail that gets cut off with the track. This creates a powerful, startling ending.
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