[IDENTITY FRACTURE] [MIRROR HORROR] [CONFESSIONAL DESCENT] [START] [INTRO – SPOKEN REFLECTION OPEN] [VOCAL – LOW, CLOSE MIC][DELIVERY – HUSHED, NATURAL] [AMBIENCE – CASSETTE HISS, ROOM TONE] [PAD DRONE – HOLLOW, LOW MOVEMENT] [FX – DISTANT THUNDER, LIGHT REVERSE SWELL] Heh… Funny thing about staring too long into your own reflection… you see a change so small it evades detection... Eyes that follow when they should stay, A smile that lingers too long in frame. [VERSE 1 – SLOW DESCENT] [VOCAL – LOW BARITONE][DELIVERY – DRAGGED, CONFESSIONAL] [808 SUB – LOW SUSTAIN] [LO-FI SYNTH ARP – QUIET TRIPLET PULSE] [DRUMS – HALF-TIME KICK, MUTED SNARE] [DETUNED GUITAR – SPARSE FUZZ STABS] [AMBIENCE – LOW AIR MOVEMENT] Well I look so strange, brain in a slow derange, heart in a broke-down cage, walking through my head like a ghost on a stage. Ain’t no boss man here in my skull, just static— just another fool tryna breathe through the panic. Pouring thoughts in a bottomless glass, watch ‘em all slip through the hourglass. Yeah I look so strange— my mirror been whisperin’ things, like “Boy, you been walking on splintered dreams.” [PRE-HOOK – MIRROR REVEAL] [VOCAL – LOW-MID, SLIGHT LIFT][DELIVERY – RESTRAINED] [PADS – WIDER STEREO] [PIANO – SOFT MINOR 7 SWELLS] [CHOIR – VERY LOW SPECTRAL SUPPORT] This mirror is a window But I can't control the parts it shows— and I don’t know what you’ll find inside, When you see my soul on the other side. [HOOK – EMOTIONAL COLLAPSE SWELL] [VOCAL – MELODIC MID-LOW][DELIVERY – WIDE, STRAINED] [808 SUB – STRONGER GLIDE MOVEMENT] [DRUMS – FULLER IMPACT, WIDER SNARE] [CHOIR – SUBTLE HARMONIC LIFT] [FX – REVERSE CYMBAL SWELLS] Feel like I’m rocketing high, feel like I’m folding inside, feel like I’m trying to hide— yeah, I'm trying to hide. Feel like I’m spiraling low, feel like I’m barely afloat, feel like I've gotta let go, Sink ‘til the world can’t find me. [VERSE 2 – ISOLATION SPIRAL] [VOCAL – LOW-MID][DELIVERY – CONTROLLED, EXHAUSTED] [LO-FI SYNTH ARP – MORE ACTIVE] [DRUMS – HEAVIER LOW-END PRESSURE] [AMBIENCE – DISTANT ROOM ECHO] [DETUNED GUITAR – LONGER SUSTAIN TAILS] I’ve been sitting in rooms where my thoughts run wild, talking to the ceiling like a world-worn child. Trying to map out a future I can barely see, but the dark keeps tugging at the threads of me. I’ve been pacing through dreary halls of an empty home, haunted by the people that I had once known. Every scar is a page in an unwritten tome— every hurt is a song stuck deep in my throat. Lately I’ve been drifting like a tear in the tide, searching for the part of me I buried inside. Moving through the quiet where my fears collect, hoping what’s been broken's still deserving of respect. [PRE-HOOK – INTERNAL WINDOW] [VOCAL – BREATHED, CLOSE MIC][DELIVERY – FRAGILE] [PIANO – WIDER WASH] [PAD DRONE – FILTER OPENING SLOWLY] [CHOIR – THIN GHOSTLY UNDERLAY] This mirror is a window, to the parts of me I never let show— and I don’t know what you think you’ll find, By peering into places better left alone [HOOK – SECOND DESCENT] [VOCAL – STRAINED MELODIC PUSH] [DRUMS – FULL IMPACT] [808 SUB – DEEP GLIDE SWELLS] [FX – LOW SUB DROP, TAPE WARBLE] Feel like I’m rocketing high, feel like I’m folding inside, feel like I’m trying to hide— yeah, I'm trying to hide. Feel like I’m spiraling low, feel like I’m barely afloat, feel like I’ll bury my mind Sink ‘til the noise gets quiet. [BRIDGE – PANIC ASCENT] [VOCAL – HALF-SPOKEN INTO STRAINED BELT] [DRUMS – STRIPPED BACK HEARTBEAT PULSE] [808 SUB – PULSING SIDECHAIN] [FX – TAPE STOP, LOW RINGING TONE] [PAD DRONE – PRESSURIZED SWELL] There’s a thin line pulling me toward the end, don’t fret— I’ve been trying just to hold myself together again. My heartbeat’s running too high, I can feel it climbing the sky— my heartbeat’s running too high, I can’t slow it down tonight. [FINAL HOOK – FULL WEIGHT RELEASE] [VOCAL – WIDE, DESPERATE] [CHOIR – STRONGEST LAYER] [DRUMS – MAXIMUM WIDTH] [DETUNED GUITAR – WALL OF FUZZED SUSTAIN] [FX – REVERSE SWELLS, DISTANT THUNDER] Feel like I’m rocketing high, feel like I’m folding inside, feel like I’m trying to hide— yeah, I'm trying to hide. Feel like I’m spiraling low, feel like I’m barely afloat, feel like I've gotta let go, Sink ‘til the world can’t find me. [OUTRO – REFLECTION ALIVE] [VOCAL – LOW, EXHAUSTED][DELIVERY – FADING] [DRUMS – DROPOUT] [PAD DRONE – SLOWLY COLLAPSING] [PIANO – DISTANT MINOR NOTES] [AMBIENCE – CASSETTE HISS RETURNS] [FX – FINAL TAPE WARP] Well I look so strange, this mirror is a window, opening a doorway to the ghost in my shadow. And I don’t know if you’ll stay for the sight— I just know my reflection is alive/(a lie)...
