[Intro] [12-string guitar alone; open D reflections] [let the main melody appear before the voice] [female vocal enters intimate and close, almost as another instrument] [vocal, guitar and melodic bass should feel like three reflections looking into the same water] [Verse 1] [sparse vocal; leave room after each phrase for guitar or bass to answer] The water wears the world like borrowed skin A house burns twice where the night folds in Trees lean down to a second sky And every color forgets where it lies [Refrain] [vocal rises slightly; bass answers beneath the pauses] Should I fear what waits below Or fear the part of me that wants to know [Verse 2] [guitar fingerpicking grows more active] [bass becomes a quiet counter-melody beneath the vocal] A window opens under my feet Another moon where the two worlds meet One small ripple and the borders move Nothing is broken but nothing stays true [Pre-Chorus] [voice opens; guitar climbs through ringing upper strings] [bass rises slowly beneath her] [brushes remain distant and soft] Should I fear what the water knows Or learn the language beneath its flow [Chorus] [broader return; vocal becomes clear and sustained, never belted] [guitar and bass answer around the spaces in each vocal phrase] There is a world [Cm/D; hold "world" long over the unresolved harmony] beneath the world [D returns; warm release] Turning slowly [C6/D; sustain "mine" while the harmony remains suspended] under mine Maybe mirrors are not warnings Maybe seeing is the sign [Instrumental Reflection] [voice disappears] [guitar repeats the chorus melody] [bass answers it with a separate rising phrase] [brushes barely trace the pulse] [let guitar and bass circle the same harmony without resolving] [Bridge] [strip back; intimate vocal with wide silence between phrases] [guitar gives a short answer after each line] If I reach down which side will break The hand above Or the one the water makes [Build] [fingerpicking gradually becomes denser] [bass begins a rising counterpoint] [vocal returns only when the harmony opens] [three voices slowly converge: female vocal, guitar melody, bass counter-melody] [Final Chorus] [widest emotional return; still acoustic and intimate] [D - Dsus2 - Cm/D - D - C6/D] There is a world [Cm/D; sustain "world", letting the note float against the darker harmony] beneath the world [D returns beneath the voice] Turning slowly [C6/D; long suspended vocal] under mine Colors turning without a name I came afraid of what was hidden [voice rises but remains controlled] I leave knowing we are not the same [Outro] [brushes and strings disappear] [voice, guitar and bass alone] The water keeps [long pause; bass answers] what I can finally see [vocal fades] [guitar returns to the opening figure] [bass gives one final answer] [C6/D - Dsus2 - Dadd9] [leave the last D ringing]
