Mortgaging one's life

Gut-Healing Night Queen Rei Mikado
-The Kabukicho Gut-Health Chronicles-
https://note.com/shiroku_mashiro

Track Description:
"Mortgaging one's life"

Featuring INTESTINE's Nemuri Tetsuno, this high-speed, heavy rock anthem captures the blocking of adenosine receptors and the runaway rampage of the sympathetic nervous system caused by a caffeine overdose.

As if despising her own name, "Nemuri" (Sleep), and the biological urge itself, she pours pitch-black alkaloids (caffeine) into her system, physically shutting down her brain's fatigue signals.

Tracing the history of caffeine from the origins of coffee (the goats jumping through the night) to its modern role as the legal stimulant turning the cogs of capitalism, the lyrics painfully depict the severe disconnect between a "mind screaming of invincibility" and a "body crying out in pain."

Her impatience and madness-driven to power the "now" even if it means mortgaging her future lifespan-are expressed through deafening shouts and limit-breaking beats.

The track culminates in a shocking finale where dopamine pushes past its absolute limit, resulting in a forced system shutdown (fainting) accompanied by the sound of a stopping heartbeat.