[Intro] (Sound of distant radio telescope static sweeping slowly, fading into a shimmering, reversed guitar chord) [Guitar: Clean, heavy chorus pedal, slow tremolo arm bends] [Verse 1] [Vocals: Whispered, close mic] Floating through the penumbra of a Monday afternoon Gravity is bending all the light inside this room A constellation flickers just behind my heavy eyes And every thought's a satellite in unfamiliar skies [Pre-Chorus] [Bass enters: Deep, round, melodic slides] [Drums: Brushed snare, soft ride cymbal] It's a retrograde motion in my mind A spiral arm I can't unwind I'm drifting toward the Kuiper Belt inside [Chorus] [Guitar: Wall of sound fuzz, layered high-end jangle] [Vocals: Layered octave harmonies, "ooh" backing vocals] And oh, I'm just a planet in the haze Spinning 'round the gravity of endless yesterdays In an elliptical and slow malaise Another orbit through this nebular phase Just spinning 'round you, spinning 'round you [Instrumental Break] [Guitar Solo: Slow, melodic slide guitar drenched in reverse delay and modulation. Feels like starlight stretching.] [Verse 2] [Vocals: Slightly more forward, but still breathy] Dust from a supernova settles on the bedroom floor I trace the path of apogee but I can't find the door Your name's a dying quasar in the echo of my chest And this heliocentric spinning never lets me rest [Pre-Chorus] [Drums: Kick drum pattern becomes more defined] It's a syzygy of shadow and of fear When you're far and yet so near The event horizon draws the future here [Chorus] [Full arrangement, cymbals crashing softly like waves on a cosmic shore] And oh, I'm just a planet in the haze Spinning 'round the gravity of endless yesterdays In an elliptical and slow malaise Another orbit through this nebular phase Just spinning 'round you... [Bridge] [Arrangement drops to just droning synth pad and bass harmonics] [Vocals: Very processed, vocoder faint in the background] Aphelion... I'm so far from the sun Perihelion... was I ever the one? Asteroid fields of all the words we didn't say Just frozen rocks that cross my Milky Way [Outro Chorus] [Tempo slows slightly, everything becomes more diffuse and reverby] And oh, I'm just a planet in the haze... (A spiral arm I can't erase...) Spinning 'round the gravity of endless yesterdays... (Just stellar remnants on my face...) [Guitar feedback swells and fades into the sound of cosmic microwave background hum] [Fade Out] (Whispered) Spinning... in retrograde... [End]
