[96 BPM] | [Progressive Metal] | [D minor] [Mood: Unsettled] [Energy: Building] [Intro | downtuned riff in 7 alone | clean guitar answering at phrase ends | sustained pad far back | drums accenting the riff] [Verse 1 | low controlled tenor | precise and level | riff in 7 | clean guitar answering line ends | bass moving against the riff] There is a hole in the middle of my seeing. It has been there since before I had a name for it. Something fills it in before it reaches me, And I have never once caught it happening. I have looked directly at the place it should be And found the wall, the window, and the ordinary day. Whatever does that does it faster than I can. [Pre-Chorus | riff tightening | clean guitar dropping out | drums building | abrupt full-band silence on the last word] So I don't know what I'm looking through. I only know it's been corrected. [Chorus | resolving to 4 | full band | straight backbeat | strained sustained tenor | Energy: Building] There's a place in here I've never been. I've been standing in it my whole life. [Verse 2 | riff returning in 7 | vocal level and unhurried | bass forward | drums accenting] I have crossed a border ten thousand times. Not once has there been a witness. I lie down knowing it will happen, And I have never seen the moment that it does. My mind leaves out. It comes back in the morning. It answers to my name and it remembers my address. I have taken it on faith that it's still just me. [Pre-Chorus | riff tightening | drums building | abrupt full-band silence] So I don't know what comes back. I only know it wears my face. [Chorus | resolving to 4 | full band | straight backbeat | Energy: Building] There's a place in here I've never been. I've been standing in it my whole life. [Instrumental | riff in 7 repeating without variation | clean guitar answering further and further behind each pass | bass climbing | drums thickening | the pad holding one unchanged chord underneath everything | no resolution | Energy: Building] [Verse 3 | riff sparser | vocal closest and most exposed but still level | clean guitar silent | bass and drums only under the last lines] It is not that I have not looked hard enough. The looking is made out of the thing I'm looking for. Every instrument I bring is cut from the same material. Every question is asked in the voice of the answer. There is no angle. There is no better light. There is no closer, because closer is the wrong direction. And I keep arriving where I started, slightly out of breath. [Pre-Chorus | maximum tension | full band | drums heaviest | no silence this time, the riff carries straight through] So I don't know that I will ever know. I know that I will keep on asking. [Final Chorus | staying in 7 | never resolving to 4 | doubled vocal | full band | Energy: Building] There's a place in here I've never been. And I have run out of ways to look. Is anybody in there — Or is that the final question? [Outro | riff continuing in 7 with no resolution | clean guitar re-entering out of time | pad holding its single chord | drums stopping first | riff cut off mid-bar]
