[Intro – ambient koto, distant rain, tape hiss] 滴る音 誰も数えない One drop… One year… Still here. [Verse 1 – soft female vocals, Rhodes and upright bass] The bridge remembers A thousand feet The road grows older Beneath the street We built forever On borrowed time And called it progress When the numbers climbed 錆びた時計が 今日も時を刻む [Pre-Chorus – shifting 5/4, brushed percussion] No alarm No breaking sky Just another year Passing by A little less A little more Something disappears Behind the door [Chorus – warm layered vocals, floating jazz harmony] Collapse lapse Between the lines A thousand cracks We call them time Collapse lapse So slow, so deep The world falls down While we sleep Nothing broke In a single day We watched it fade And looked away [Instrumental – koto and shakuhachi dialogue, 7/8 jazz groove] [Verse 2 – intimate, fragmented rhythm] A future warning Across the screen Machines are coming To end the dream But under concrete The rivers rust And every promise Returns to dust 明日を恐れて 昨日を忘れる [Pre-Chorus 2 – Rhodes chords slowly detuning] They fear the spark They fear the flame But not the walls That slowly change A sudden end Is easy to see What about the end We learned to breathe? [Chorus – wider harmonies, subtle koto counterpoint] Collapse lapse Between the lines A thousand cracks We call them time Collapse lapse So slow, so deep The world falls down While we sleep Nothing broke In a single day We watched it fade And looked away [Bridge – whispered vocals, near silence, irregular piano] 効率の果てに 何を残したの We saved the cost We lost the ground We built a system That couldn't slow down No single villain No final fight Just little failures Hidden in plain sight [Progressive instrumental – modal piano solo, koto ostinato, brushed drums dissolving into ambient textures] [Final Chorus – fragile, stripped-down female vocals] Collapse lapse A quiet sign The end was always Taking time Collapse lapse No grand goodbye Just empty stations Under an endless sky If nothing lasts Why build so high? Leave something living When the wires die [Outro – solo shakuhachi, distant koto harmonics, fading tape loops] 崩れる音は 聞こえない Still here… Still fading… One drop… One year… [Long ambient fade to silence]
