[Intro] [71 BPM, filtered room noise, muted electric piano] [three-note tidal bass motif: C–B♭–A♭] [each note separated by wide empty space] [deep female contralto, dry and centered] You got comfortable. Mistook that for close. [three-note bass motif] [Verse 1] [dusty sampled breakbeat enters, blunt kick and snare] [deep melodic electric bass moves around the three-note motif] [hydrophone texture flickers beneath the groove] You know what I order Which side of the bed Know when I’m finished By the tilt of my head You know which light stays burning Which door sticks twice You collected little details And called that insight [waterphone bends across one bar] You learned the weather Thought you owned the coast That’s where you lost me You assumed the most [Pre-Chorus] [snare disappears] [three-note bass motif returns with longer resonance] [pitched water droplets answer each phrase] You read the room You read me wrong You knew the pattern Never knew what it was for You got close enough To make one mistake You thought close meant invited [Chorus] [breakbeat widens] [old organ holds an uneasy suspended chord] [sub joins electric bass without overwhelming it] Not that far Not that deep You know what I show you Not what I keep Not that far You saw what I let you see Knowing everything around me Ain’t the same as knowing me [three-note bass motif] You got close [beat cuts] That was all [Verse 2] [groove returns missing several percussion elements] [low didgeridoo resonance begins hiding inside the sub] [isolated tremolo guitar bends appear and vanish] You learned my timing My exits, my tells Know when I’m leaving Before anyone else You know which silence Means stay where you are Which one means you already Went a little too far [bass motif returns, final note changed] Good instincts Bad conclusion One open moment Became your illusion You learned the shoreline Then walked like it was yours I watched you reach And changed the doors [Pre-Chorus 2] [kick remains, everything else thins] [electric piano pitch begins drifting] You read the room Still missed the point Recognition Never made this joint You got close enough To make one mistake You thought close meant invited [Chorus 2] [first lines familiar] [three-note motif begins appearing between vocal phrases] Not that far Not that deep You know what I show you Not what I keep Not that far You saw what I let you see Knowing everything around me Ain’t the same as knowing me [organ disappears] You got close [guitar disappears] That was all [Bridge — THE TIDE EVENT] [all drums vanish] [only lead vocal, hydrophone texture, didgeridoo resonance and three-note bass motif remain] [three-note motif: C–B♭–A♭] Come closer. [repeat motif, each note lasting twice as long] You already decided You know what happens next. [repeat motif again, one octave lower] [each note stretches farther until their tails begin overlapping] Funny. [high frequencies gradually disappear] [electric piano becomes distant and muffled] You learned the surface. [three bass notes stretch so far they stop feeling separate] [waterphone resonance fuses into the second note] [didgeridoo overtone fuses into the third] [sub pressure grows beneath all three] Never asked How deep it went. [the three notes merge seamlessly into ONE enormous continuous low tone] [lead vocal remains completely dry and calm] Not that far. [continuous low tone cuts instantly] [HALF-BEAT TOTAL SILENCE] [ONE BRUTALLY DRY SNARE] [SURFACE IMPACT] [full frequency range snaps open] [massive clean electric bass + sub] [original C–B♭–A♭ rhythm is now played by pitched water percussion] [electric bass answers with the motif reversed: A♭–B♭–C] [didgeridoo becomes rhythmic low-end punctuation instead of drone] [bowed cello tears across the impact then vanishes] You thought you found the bottom. [bass answer] There wasn’t one. [short instrumental rupture] [water percussion and reversed bass motif interlock] [Final Chorus] [largest groove but not densest] [water percussion now permanently carries the original bass rhythm] [bass plays fluid variations around the reversed motif] [organ returns altered] [vocal remains restrained] Not that far Not that deep You knew what I showed you Never what I keep Not that far Now you know what I mean You can know everything around me And never get to me Not that far [breakbeat loses pieces one by one] You got close [only water percussion remains] That was all [Outro] [three pitched water hits play C–B♭–A♭] [deep female contralto, completely dry] You learned the weather. [reversed bass motif: A♭–B♭–C] Not the water. [cut]
