[Hook] [Heavy melodic drag] Paper airplane… [Double bounce] Fold me up and throw me [Heavy drag] Watch me drift where you don’t go [Pocket switch] You loved the way I left your hands Never cared where I’d land [Half-time • Build] Paper airplane… [Heavy melodic drag] Paper airplane… [Double bounce] Fold me up and throw me [Double bounce] Fold me up and throw me [Heavy drag] Watch me drift where you don’t go [Pocket switch] You loved the way I left your hands Never cared where I’d land [Half-time • Build] Paper airplane… [Full voice • Biggest melody] You only held me… Long enough… To let me go [no space between hook and verse] [Cee Dubs core DNA — relaxed conversational pocket, dry front-and-center vocal, warm slightly raspy, steady quick cadence, natural pitch drift, Chicago/Midwest diction, shadowed ad-libs | 4AM sadboy modifier — numb restraint, breathy melodic drag, emotional cracks held back] [Verse | mumbled rush into melodic drag] you-creased-me-clean, made a point outta me folded-every-edge till i flew how you need i-was-sharp in your palm, felt the wind pick up then-you-aimed-me-off where you knew i'd get lost i-don't-glide, i just fall reeeeal slow tracin every crease that your fingers left tho so-throw-me-again, i'll pretend it's the sky paper-don't-break... it just learns how to fly (let go) [Hook] [Heavy melodic drag] Paper airplane… [Double bounce] Fold me up and throw me [Heavy drag] Watch me drift where you don’t go [Pocket switch] You loved the way I left your hands Never cared where I’d land [Half-time • Build] Paper airplane… [Full voice • Biggest melody] You only held me… Long enough… To let me go [verse | high male tenor, intimate close-mic, painfully vulnerable, slow drawn-out singing, triple bounce cadence, soft breathy tone, fragile mixed voice, sounds like holding back tears, emotional cracks on important words, long sustained vowels, restrained heartbreak, abandoned, discarded, pleading without begging, every phrase feels heavier than the last, minimal vibrato until the ending, stripped instrumentation, leave space between lines for emotion to breathe] when you found me... i was nothing... like a blank piece of paper... [slightly more emotional, voice beginning to tremble] then you crafted me... into something... that would keep us together... [gentle hope fading away] at least i thought... thats why i let you... fold me up... [voice cracks, barely keeping composure] now its one throw... and you already done... [brief pause, instrumentation almost disappears] you lost track of me... as i drifted away... [soft disbelief, almost whispering] or maybe you didnt watch... cause you didnt wanna stay... [emotion quietly overwhelms the voice, breathing becomes audible] now im lost in trees... turned into something i wasnt... [nearly spoken, completely defeated, long silence before the question] could you at least tell me... if it was fun... [pause] [almost whispered, barely audible, voice breaking on the final word] ...was it?
