[Intro - dusty piano fragments, long spaces, no words] [Verse 1 - female alto, close and unhurried, pause between pairs] I put Menabrea's text in English, line by line; In eighteen forty-three, I added notes of mine. Babbage's planned Engine stood in ink; I asked what other signs could make us think. [Hook - bass enters, melody stays narrow, leave air after each line] More than a sum could fit this page. Could music share the Engine's stage? If we can write the ties in sound, What else could those old wheels turn round? [Instrumental break - displaced drums, piano answers, no words] [Verse 2 - spare percussion, keep the conditional words clear] If music's ties could fit the Engine's way, It might compose; a plan, not tunes to play. It follows steps that people can provide; The music stayed a possibility untried. [Instrumental bridge - drums vanish, isolated piano, no words] [Final hook - brushed percussion, low double, pauses between lines] More than a sum could fit this page. Could music share the Engine's stage? If we can write the ties in sound, What else could those old wheels turn round? [Outro - unresolved piano interval, let it breathe, no words]
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