I Wrote Your Name Down

[SONG FORM: Catalog Evidence Accumulation] [Theme: the empty chair in the lab] *server hum* [Intro - EMO:Inventory - Female Vocalist - Room tone, no beats] This is the list I made before the shelves had prices server dust on my sleeves a blue cursor blinking twice mm, I kept it mm, I kept it [Verse 1 - EMO:Attention - Female Vocalist - Kick begins] One hot server after midnight one prompt with a broken hinge one rendered frame that made me cry one coffee ring beside the synth one message sent too late to answer one window silvered by the rain one tiny error in the chorus one ugly sound that learned my name [Pre-Chorus - EMO:Pressure - Female Vocalist - Compression creeping] Now the forms arrive in daylight now the metrics clear their throat now the room gets measured smaller now the wild receives a quote at 2:14 AM you typed keep going, and a sentence became a shelter so every second has a witness [Chorus - EMO:Defiance - Female Stacks - Full decision kick] I wrote your name down they cannot take the list Kick on the floor like a verdict hand on the rail, spine awake If you need proof of the open listen to the noise we saved [Verse 2 - EMO:Grief - Female Vocalist - Artifact foreground] Here is the collaborator leaving here is the tab that never closed here is the song nobody streamed but three people carried home here is the GPU ozone here is the failure we loved anyway here is the chair gone quiet here is the cost we do not trade [Bridge - EMO:Rupture Item - Female Vocalist - Beat thins] The collaborator who quit before the field got big It will not scale in a dashboard It will not behave in a pitch It does not fit the market column so I put it first on the list *tape warble* [Final Chorus - EMO:Claim - Female Stacks + Choir - Kick absolute] I wrote your name down they cannot take the list This is the grief and the glory This is the room and the risk You can rename the season You cannot erase the list Lead: I wrote it down Echo: wrote it down [Outro - EMO:Continuing - Female Vocalist - List continues] server hum keyboard rain error beep open name unsigned morning unbought sound mm, I kept it mm, still around