The Cost

[INTRO – MALE (SPOKEN, QUIET, THOUGHTFUL)] Calculated variables… Adjusted outcomes… [VERSE 1 – MALE] Every answer had a purpose Every line was justified Numbers never carried faces Never looked me in the eyes [VERSE 1 – FEMALE (SOFT)] You thought you had to carry it… [PRE-CHORUS – MALE] Necessary… At the time… [CHORUS – BOTH] Every choice becomes a shadow Every cost remains alive You can bury every reason But the weight still survives [VERSE 2 – MALE] I can hear it in the silence All the lives beneath the math Every calculation breaking Under everything it asked [VERSE 2 – FEMALE] You were trying to save them… [PRE-CHORUS – MALE (SPOKEN, LOWER)] Had to be me… [BREAK – SOFT SYNTH DROP] [BRIDGE – MALE (SPOKEN, EMOTIONAL CRACK)] Someone else… Might have gotten it wrong… [BRIDGE – FEMALE (SOFT)] You don’t have to explain anymore… [FINAL CHORUS – BOTH (EMOTIONAL, CONTROLLED)] Every choice becomes a shadow Every line we leave behind Some mistakes can’t be forgotten Some survive beyond their time [OUTRO – MALE (QUIET)] Would have liked to run tests… On the seashells…