[Intro — jungle drum and bass,174 bpm,deep rolling sub bass center,fast chopped amen breaks,Scottish Highland bagpipe drone wide,small frame drum taps left,river stones underfoot,wind through pine needles,3D hill reverb] [male vocal,American accent,warm gritty tenor,close mic,clear diction] boots in the peat rain in my coat coins in my pocket keep beating the road [bagpipe riff — short rising Highland melody,left→right delay,sub bass answers low] [male vocal,half-sung] i came for silence i found a drum under the heather calling me home [backing voices,low male group,far hill response] run with the water run with the stag [Instrumental Break 1 — amen break rolls hard,bagpipe riff repeats,808 sub pulses like hooves,wooden claps,waterfall rush panned right→left] [Verse 1 — tight jungle groove,bagpipe drone under vocal,short phrases] loch on my left stone wall on my right old wool sleeves soaked through by light a deer lifts its head by the broken fence line then vanishes clean through the wet black pine my phone has no bars my breath has a beat mud takes my name from the soles of my feet [small vocal hook,center then wide] the ground knows me the ground knows me [Pre-Chorus — drums drop thinner,heartbeat kick,bagpipe holds one long note] i hear it in the moss i hear it in the rain not a song from a speaker but blood in the grain [short shouted adlibs,l↔r] hey! again! run it again! [Chorus — big melodic lift,stacked harmonies,bagpipe lead riff,wide 3D echo] loch and bass loch and bass my bones start running when the old pipes play loch and bass loch and bass the hill keeps time and the river gives chase [backing voices,call and response] run with the water run with the stag run with the water never look back [Instrumental Break 2 — signature bagpipe riff doubles with rave stab,amen chopped faster,sub bass slides,snare ghost notes,field-recorded creek splash,delay throw left→right] [Verse 2 — lower vocal,more intimate,rolling drums return] i found a black feather stuck to my sleeve kept it like proof that the air could breathe a cairn on the ridge had names carved deep somebody’s father somebody’s sheep i laid down my hands on the cold gray stone felt every old footstep walk through my own [quiet laugh adlib,far right,short room tail] ha— [male vocal,closer] not funny like joy more like fear letting go when the mountain says yes and the body says go [Pre-Chorus — rising pads,bagpipe tremolo,drums filtered] i hear it in the fern i hear it in the clay not a ghost in the fog but a road made of rain [shouted double,l→r] hey! take me! take me! [Chorus — bigger,radio hook,choir layers behind lead] loch and bass loch and bass my bones start running when the old pipes play loch and bass loch and bass the hill keeps time and the river gives chase [backing voices,thick harmony] run with the water run with the stag run with the water never look back [Bridge — half-time,sub drops out,solo bagpipe over distant thunder,soft kick like a heart] [male vocal,nearly spoken] granddad never saw this place but he wore the weather well kept a bent nail in his pocket and a story he would never tell now the rain hits my jacket like fingers on a drum and every tree leans closer saying boy,you’re not done [Cliffhanger Stop — all instruments cut,one bagpipe note hangs] [male whisper,center,dry] not done [Drop — full jungle explosion,bagpipe riff distorted,amen break chopped,sub bass huge,choir shouts wide] [shouts,l↔r] run! run! run with the stag! [Final Chorus — maximum lift,lead vocal doubled,bagpipe melody answers each line] loch and bass loch and bass my bones start running when the old pipes play loch and bass loch and bass the hill keeps time and the river gives chase loch and bass loch and bass mud on my hands and the sky in my face loch and bass loch and bass i came here alone but i leave with the place [backing voices,chanting,panned around listener] run with the water run with the stag run with the water never look back [Outro — amen break fades into real river sound,bagpipe drone slowly lowers,soft hand drum,boots walking through wet grass] [male vocal,soft final line] coins in my pocket keep beating the road [bagpipe riff — one last rising phrase,3D hill reverb tail]
