Cause I Do (October Artist Showcase)

[Intro - weightless and glowing, harp-like plucks, handclaps, her solo humming] Mmm... Ooh-ooh... [Verse 1 - tender, close, almost smiling, ostinato ticking softly] It's coming back again The feeling I used to wait for So happy I could cry So crying I could fly I could fly... [Pre-Chorus - pulse rising, breath quickening] Who gave me all this joy Then took away the reason? Watch me make it mine In my saddest season [Chorus - rising euphoria, holding back, vocoder witch voice answers "Envy me" faint] Nobody sings for it now So I'll sing it lou-ou-ouder I survived every goodbye Now I'm shaking with the ru-u-ush Laughing through the tears Too alive to be touched I burn brighter than the moo-oon Envy me Envy me 'Cause I do-o-o [Verse 2 - darker, lower, drawn in against her will, ostinato still ticking] It scares me... How much I miss it It scares me... How much I'd stay I'm running toward What tore me away [Pre-Chorus - pulse rising] Who gave me all this love Then took away the reason? Watch me come alive In my saddest season [Chorus - full euphoric belt, vocoder witch voice answers "Envy me" low and metallic] Nobody sings for it now So I'll sing it lou-ou-ouder I survived every goodbye Now I'm shaking with the ru-u-ush Laughing through the tears Too alive to be touched I burn brighter than the moo-oon Envy me Envy me 'Cause I do-o-o [Break - the flight sinks into a held breath, ostinato still ticking, a low impact blooms in, cosmic organ plays the chorus melody, her wordless soaring cry] Aaaah... [Bridge - raw, sings softly building to a roar, ostinato ticking underneath] Was it real? Was I loved? Then why does the joy still come Right when the grief does? I'm not waiting for the light I'm not waiting to be saved I'm the fire that saved me I'm the fi-i-ire... [Final Chorus - everything hits at once, organ, brass, drums, her full roar, vocoder witch voice answers "Envy me" at its heaviest] Nobody sings for it now So I'll sing it lou-ou-ouder I survived every goodbye Now I'm shaking with the ru-u-ush Laughing through the tears Too alive to be touched I burn brighter than the moo-oon Envy me Envy me 'Cause I do-o-o And I'd say it again [Outro - the glowing pad returns, she sings softly] Nobody remembers I'll remember I'll remember... Envy me... [End]