It Plays Me Back

[Intro - sparse, eerie, instrumental] [Verse 1 - intimate, restrained, sparse] The mirror keeps the room awake, The clock repeats the same mistake. A shadow waits behind the glass, One step behind me as I pass. I know this hall, I know this light, I know what moves here every night. Before I speak, it says my name, The voice comes back without a face. [Pre-Chorus - tension rising] Again, again, The walls remember. Again, again, I lose the center. [Chorus - clear addictive hook, controlled] Again, again, stay— Not mine, not mine. Again, again, wait— Same room, same room. I play the memory. It plays me back. [Verse 2 - darker, intimate] The morning enters much too late, My handprint waits beside the gate. The photographs have changed their eyes. The hallway ends where it began. I mark the door. The mark is there. I leave the room. I'm standing there. [Pre-Chorus - stronger tension] Again, again, The walls remember. Again, again, I lose the center. [Chorus - wider, stronger] Again, again, stay— Not mine, not mine. Again, again, wait— Same room, same room. I play the memory. It plays me back. [Bridge - stripped, near-spoken, unsettling] I never held the past. The past was holding me. The voice behind the glass Knew every word before I spoke. I am not remembering. I am being remembered. [Final Chorus - massive cinematic climax] Again, again, stay— Still mine, still mine. Again, again, wait— Same room, same room. I was the memory. The memory was me. [Outro - sudden collapse, unresolved, distant] Again. Again. The room goes dark. The clock begins.