[Intro] [Static vinyl crackle] [Melancholic toy piano plucking] [Faint radio static] (The day goes on…) [Distanced whisper] (…day goes on) [Eerie echo] Thousand miles from here [Verse 1] [Fragile, close vocals with telephone filter] I light the stove like yesterday Your sweater still hangs where you left it The kettle sings the same old note But the house don’t answer back [Verse 2] [Acoustic guitar enters, dusty and slow] I trace the ring you made on wood With fingers colder every dusk The clock keeps time, the world keeps none And every promise learned to rust [Chorus] [Explosion of distorted fuzz guitar and heavy drums] I’m afraid, I’m afraid, I’m afraid You’ll stick where the world forgot its word A thousand miles and one more day And the road won’t turn, won’t turn, won’t turn [Overlapping backing vocals] (won’t turn… won’t turn…) [Verse 3] [Music drops back to quiet lo-fi acoustic] Your letters come with foreign stamps Each word a little farther gone I press them flat against my chest Like they could bring the distance home [Interlude] [Psychedelic optigan and weeping cello solo] [Subtle analog synth wobble with panning echoes] [Chorus] [Heavy, distorted shoegaze guitars burst back in] I’m afraid, I’m afraid, I’m afraid You’ll stick where the world forgot its word A thousand miles and one more day And the road won’t turn, won’t turn, won’t turn [Overlapping backing vocals] (won’t turn… won’t turn…) [Outro] [Music completely cuts out except for tape hiss and a music box] [Whispered vocals] The day goes on… [Echoing delay] (day goes on) Thousand miles from here (…miles from here) [Fading echo] [Tape stop effect] [End]
