[Disc_Rhythm: close_mic_breath_as_hihat | wire_brush_dry_coated_head | 104_BPM_steady_pulse | body_noises_foregrounded | Center_Mono] [Disc_Vocal: plain_mid_register_female_speech_adjacent | voiceless_glottal_no_place_of_articulation | breath_on_capsule_audible | dry_intimate_no_reverb | Center_Front] [Disc_Sub: fingered_bass_upright_feel | felt_in_chest_not_ears | walks_toward_center_each_section | Mono_Sub_Lock] [Disc_Texture: felt_damped_upright_piano | single_coil_volume_swell_no_attack | uncompressed_transient_snap | Hard_Pan_Left_And_Right] [Disc_Pad: no_pad_no_swell_no_crescendo | dry_cabin_no_tail | Stereo_Width_Minimum] [Theme: A car outside a house, engine off, both women still in it. The driver knows the woman beside her has been practice. The percussion is breath - the one sound a mouth makes touching nothing.] [SONG FORM: Approach in monosyllables - Periapsis, the apology that will not assemble - Exit at doubled subdivision, faster and quieter than the entry, no landing] [Verse 1 - EMO:fondness - Lead Vocal - speech-adjacent, monosyllables, brushed kit only] The house is lit. The car is not. You laugh at how I park. I do the laugh back. I got good at that. Your key is out. My belt is on. The dash goes dark. Porch light. A pale stripe on your knee. The block ticks. The heat goes thin. None of it was for you. All of it was on you. That is the whole of it. *SFX: cooling engine ticking, a seatbelt buckle knocked against a door card* [Breath Figure - EMO:fondness - Lead Vocal - vocables, unglamorous, THESE ARE THE HI-HATS] Hh- hh- hht. Hh- hh- hht. Hh- hh- hht. Hh- hh- Hh- hh- hht. [Verse 2 - EMO:fondness - Lead Vocal - monosyllables, sprung stress, bass steps closer to centre] I learned to wait on you. I learned the face you want. I learned to hold my hand flat and still. I learned the pause. I learned the pace. I learned the small true thing on time. I learned to leave the last word. I learned to hear the thing you don't say. I learned it all in here. None of it was for you. All of it was on you. That is the whole of it. [Chorus - EMO:dawning - Lead Vocal - POLYSYLLABIC against the monosyllabic verse, brushes open] Every decent thing in me was practising- the listening, the waiting, the not-answering, the tenderness I'll spend on a stranger's evening, and nobody knows who did the training. Hh- hh- hht. (vocable) [Verse 3 - EMO:dawning - Lead Vocal - monosyllables return, brushes tighten, sub nearer] You say I've got so good at this. You mean it kind. You mean it warm. You say it like a gift. And there it is. And there's the sum. I was rehearsing. You were the room. The room does not get told. You do the maths out loud. Six years. You say it light, like a joke. The joke lands loose in my hands. None of it was for you. All of it was on you. That is the whole of it. [Chorus - EMO:dawning - Lead Vocal - POLYSYLLABIC, wider, breath doubling the hat] Every decent thing in me was practising- the listening, the waiting, the not-answering, the tenderness I'll spend on a stranger's evening, and nobody knows who did the training. Hh- hh- hht. (vocable) [Approach - EMO:dawning into dread - Lead Vocal - vocables, stereo narrows, sub steps forward, subdivision halves] Hh- hh- hht. Hh- hh- hht. Hh- hh- hht- hh- Hh- hh- hht. Hh- hh- hht. Hh- hh- hh- hh- [Periapsis - EMO:the apology that will not assemble - Lead Vocal - vocables, closest mic, brushes stop, the mouth keeps the backbeat, SHORTEST SECTION] S'- hh- s'- hh- s'- S'- hh- s'- hh- sh- Hh- hh- [Verse 4 - EMO:the detected theft - Lead Vocal - double-time phrasing, twice the words in the same bars, no tempo change] You turn your head and I can watch the question load in your face, and I could say the true thing now, and saying it would leave this place, I say nothing, and the nothing is clean, and clean is what it cost, I got out with all of it, and getting out is what I lost. You will not get an answer here, you'll get the ignition turning, and how good I'm about to be for someone else is what you're learning. [Chorus - EMO:the detected theft - Lead Vocal - POLYSYLLABIC, faster rate, quieter, no lift] Every decent thing in me was practising- the listening, the waiting, the not-answering, the tenderness I'll spend on a stranger's evening, and nobody knows who did the training. Hh- hh- hht. (vocable) *SFX: a door handle pulled to its stop and held, the latch not let go* [Exit - EMO:the detected theft - Lead Vocal - quieter and faster, brushes double, sub pulls back, hard cut on a breath] Hh- hh- hht. (vocable) The house is lit. The car is not. Hh- hh- hht. (vocable) Your hand is on the door. I got good here. I got good on you. S'- hh- s'- hh- sh- (vocable) The block ticks. The glass goes white. Hh- hh- hht. (vocable) Hh- hh- (vocable)
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