Thank you all for listening! 🙏 If you enjoyed the track, please leave a like and drop a comment it means a lot! 💬❤️ [INTRO] [WINTER FIELD RECORDING snow, wind, distant fire] [HEARTBEAT SUB BASS 52 BPM, slow, steady] [FROZEN PIANO single notes, long decay] (whispered) I didn't disappear I went inside There's a difference [VERSE 1] (vocal underwater, processed) Everyone assumed I was lost Because I stopped Performing being found The bear doesn't explain the winter The seed doesn't apologize for the ground I was doing what the cold things do When the cold comes Going down To where the changing happens Where no one watches Where it can't be photographed [PRE-CHORUS] (strings begin, barely perceptible) The hibernation wasn't absence It was the most present I had ever been With myself [CHORUS] [STRINGS ARRIVE enormous, you didn't notice them coming] Hibernation star Burning in the dark where no one sees Hibernation star Doing everything inside, quietly You don't have to be visible To be becoming The light was always coming [VERSE 2] (vocal fully surfaced, clear) I stopped explaining The silences I needed The blossom doesn't Press conference its arrival It just opens When it opens I lost some people in the quiet The ones who needed me performing But I was building something In the cold That required The cold [BREAKDOWN THE MOMENT] [HEARTBEAT STOPS COMPLETELY] (4 seconds nothing) (sound of something cracking open) (voice, no effects) I thought the quiet meant I was finished (other voice, surfacing) The quiet meant You were Starting [HEARTBEAT RETURNS deeper, larger than before] [CELLO one line, only time in the song] [FINAL CHORUS] [C minor → C major warmth arrives like a season changing] [WINTER RECORDING RETURNS but now there are birds] Hibernation star You were burning all along The dark was just the beginning of the song Every silent season Was the root going deeper You didn't disappear You were becoming You were Becoming (backing vocals) The light was always there You were always Burning [OUTRO] [HEARTBEAT SLOWS TO REST] [FROZEN PIANO same notes as intro, different now] (whispered, awake now) I didn't disappear I went inside There's a difference (one piano note long decay birds silence)