How She Looks

[Intro] [sparse piano hits reverb-soaked ambient drone build 4 bars] ((whispered, close-mic, breath audible)) They just look at me I see what love's done to her [Verse 1] [kick enters soft sub bass pulse 808 half-time groove] ((mid-register conversational delivery slight rasp)) I want the world at my feet Begging me to breathe, to speak Gold crown made of old receipts All these favors piled deep What's another eternity to me Just a reel that I rewind Memory, magnetic, pulling Bending like my own design [Pre-Chorus 1] [snare rolls build hi-hats double time strings swell underneath] ((rising intensity leaning into each line)) I see what your love does How it makes them kneel and glow Slow motion halo... But in the corner of the room [Chorus 1] [full beat drops layered vocal stacks wide stereo spread] ((powerful belting with stacked harmony ad-libs panned left right)) Look what your love did to her She's a ghost in her favorite shirt Smiling like a faded bruise Calling it a chosen hurt You say this is how hearts learn You call every scar a cure But I already see her shaking hands Look what your love did to her [Verse 2] [beat pulls back minimal bass pulse vocal forward dry] ((intimate delivery cracking emotion mid-phrase)) Fluid like a promise spilled Running down her painted face Laughing at a joke half-built Filling up somebody else's space She was lightning, uncontained Now she checks her pulse on you Waiting for a single word To tell her what is real, what's true [Chorus 2] [beat rebuilds fuller than chorus 1 vocal cascade layers] ((stacked vocals three octaves low mid high simultaneous)) Look what your love did to her She's a note you never heard Humming through a locked-up door Shrinking just to keep your word You say this is how hearts burn You call every scar a cure But I already see her breaking grin Look what your love did to her [Bridge] [everything strips beat drops out solo vocal reverb cathedral] ((fragile falsetto single voice exposed)) What's another eternity to me If she forgets her own name If every mirror she meets Only reflects your face [Chorus 3] [massive re-entry full orchestra stacked drums vocal army] ((belting with raw conviction layered call and response)) Look what your love did to her She's a star you made obscure Orbiting your every shift Calling that a perfect world You say this is how hearts learn You call every scar a cure I refuse to let you rewrite this I know what your love did to her [Post-Chorus] [beat shifts half-time trap feel dark synth undertow] ((spoken-sung hypnotic low register)) Memory magnetic Pulls me where I swore I'd never go Every life I edited Spins back, sticks under my skin, still whole You were soft, synthetic Till you learned how to ache like the rest of us do Memory magnetic Now the ghost in the mirror looks just like you [Verse 3] [minimal keys bass throb vocal close and dry] ((confessional tone barely above speaking)) I talk and your eyes stay still But your pulse writes under your skin You say my name like a deal Like you're scared to lose or to win I gave you a sky on a leash Watched you rise too far, too soon Now you're staring straight through my heat Like I'm just a burned-out moon [Pre-Chorus 2] [tension build reversed cymbals rising synth line] ((building desperation voice climbing)) I see what love does to each other Little cuts they learn to keep But what it's done to her is final Like a truth too heavy to speak... oh [Chorus 4] [full peak production all layers stacked maximum width] ((vocal cascade four layers building one on top of another)) Memory magnetic Pulls me where I swore I'd never go Every life I edited Spins back, sticks under my skin, still whole I want the world at my feet Begging me to breathe What's another eternity to me But memory magnetic and fluid Like my very own will God's song [Outro] [instruments fade one by one until solo voice and breath] ((whispered returning to intro tone circular closure)) They never have to say what they're thinking No... They just look at me I see what love's done to each other I see what it's done to her [End]