[Intro | quiet halftime piano, hushed close vocal, tense and still] Nothing moving. Fuel and wait. Nothing moves — until too late. [Verse 1 | full tempo kicks in, piano and bass driving, drums held back, single lead vocal] The fast ones lit me for a night — gone before I'd caught the light. But the host kept pouring, way past ten, and you came slow across the room, and then — [Pre-Chorus | full band ignition, hard snare, loose handclaps on the count, bright stacked chant] One look — absorbed. One breath — unstable. Something ancient in us split beneath the table. Count it: two, four, eight — too late, too late, too late — [Chorus | huge and joyful, pounding piano, wall of stacked harmonies, both voices together] [Break | all instruments cut, powerful a cappella duet shout] We've gone critical — [Full band slams back in] let the chain run free, every split releasing more of me, more of you — it doubles, blinding bright: one runaway reaction, wild tonight! No brakes, no rods, no cooling down — [Break | instruments cut, a cappella duet shout] we're supercritical — [Band slams back in] spend the old life down! [Verse 2 | second voice takes the lead, tight groove, choirs recede, guitar accents answering piano] It jumped the job I meant to keep, it jumped the city, jumped my sleep, each plan it struck flew clean in two — and every fragment flew toward you. [Pre-Chorus | accelerating, extended count, live handclaps, chant harmonies growing] Each break births two, and two birth four — your old life's fuel, and mine burns more. Count it: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two — too late — [Chorus | huge, drum fill entry, both voices, stacked harmonies] [Break | all instruments cut, powerful a cappella duet shout] We've gone critical — [Full band slams back in] let the chain run free, every split releasing more of me, more of you — it doubles, blinding bright: one runaway reaction, wild tonight! No brakes, no rods, no cooling down — [Break | instruments cut, a cappella duet shout] we're supercritical — [Band slams back in] spend the old life down! [Bridge | piano and bass only, weightless and hushed, close intimate duet, both voices soft and heartfelt] But here inside the core, the roar goes low — this close, we move asymptotically free. And every inch apart just lets it grow: you cannot pull a single one of me. [Final Chorus | biggest of all, full ignition, layered harmonies, ecstatic] [Break | all instruments cut, powerful a cappella duet shout] We've gone critical — [Full band slams back in] let the chain run free, every split releasing more of me, more of you — it doubles, blinding bright: one runaway reaction — every night! No brakes, no rods, no slowing this design — [Break | instruments cut, a cappella duet shout] we're supercritical — [Band slams back in] in my core you shine! [Outro | instruments leave one at a time, energy halving, piano and voices last, slow fade] And what we were is glowing still — it halves, and halves, and always will: daughter into daughter, down the line, till the old lives rest — and the new one shines. [End]
