---LYRICS--- 75 BPM | Dark trip-hop, drone ambient, dark neo-soul | Key: D minor [Mood: Suffocating, unraveling from within] [Energy: Slow burn — controlled decay, never exploding outward] [Intro | low drone enters first | distorted bass pulse | beat starts sparse and cold] [Verse 1 | Female Vocal | dry, controlled — same register as track 4 | drone barely audible] something shifted in the light I noticed but I didn't say (she noticed) my hands were fine this morning they're not fine today (they were never fine) I'm still standing where I was the room looks like it did (the room is wrong) but the air is doing something that air isn't supposed to do [Pre-Chorus | drone rises | bass thickens | vocal layers begin bleeding in] it's not a thought it's not a word (it's everything) it's what the body holds when nothing can be heard (when no one hears) [Chorus | beat decays | drone full | vocal layers multiply and contradict] the air screamed first (I screamed first) before I could (I couldn't) the world came loose the way I knew it would (I always knew) I opened up my mouth and found it full of sky (full of nothing) (full of sky) (full of me) [Verse 2 | Female Vocal | slightly more fractured | beat drops to pulse only | drone dominant] the faces on the road kept walking I kept walking too (I stopped) I must have looked completely normal coming unglued (she was unglued) I counted breathing in (one) I counted breathing out (one) somewhere between the two the counting stopped making sense (it never made sense) [Pre-Chorus | drone peaks | bass distorts | layers thicker] it's not a thought it's not a word (it's everything) it's what the body holds when nothing can be heard (when no one hears) [Chorus | fuller decay | vocal layers raw and overlapping] the air screamed first (I screamed first) before I could (I couldn't) the world came loose the way I knew it would (I always knew) I opened up my mouth and found it full of sky (full of nothing) (full of sky) (full of me) [Breakdown | drone only | beat stops completely | bass holds one note | silence almost total] (she's still standing there) (she hasn't moved) (the air is wrong) (the air is wrong) [Verse 3 | Female Vocal | whispered, almost gone | drone fades slowly] I don't know what just happened (I know exactly) I don't know what it was (it was everything) I only know the sky looked wrong and now it always does (it always did) [Outro | beat returns as distant pulse | drone dissolves | bass fades last] the air screamed first~ (I was already screaming) the air screamed first~ before............... (before everything)
