Moonflower

[genre: night-bloom pop, downtempo, crackle-funk] [mood: humid, illicit, nectar-sweet] [dynamics: steam-rise crescendo] [instruments: detuned guitar, dusty vinyl kit, tape-warped choir, night-crickets, sprinkler foley] [verse 1] [music: dusty kick rim clicks, detuned guitar pollen plucks, C♯ Phrygian haze] [Bloom vocals: cracked, sighing, glottal fry] moon-dirt under every nail I seed-bomb the abandoned rail only wilted things admit color tonight petal-theft perfumes the streetlight [pre-chorus 1] [music: bass enters, syrupy swell] climb the fence of your own perfume vault back down / let the orchard fume [chorus 1] [music: chorus bass oozes, sprinkler foley syncs to hi-hat] [bloom vocals: honeyed contralto, salivating on consonants] bloom where the landfill sighs let the fruit split, let the flies rejoice lush is the law of the blushing rind we leak sugar, we leak noise [verse 2] [music: add subtle tape-warp guitar reverse] bruised pear in a rusted can iron-tinged hose water kisses my tan roots don’t knock / they rupture I worship the scar, not the suture [pre-chorus 2] [music: identical swell, slight choir pad foreshadow] climb the fence of your own perfume vault back down / let the orchard fume [chorus 2] [music: night-crickets double-time pan left-right] bloom where the landfill sighs let the fruit split, let the flies rejoice lush is the law of the blushing rind we leak sugar, we leak noise [bridge] [music: accelerando 82→86 BPM, modulate to E major, tape choir blooms] [bloom vocals: breath-close, whisper-crackle] [Mold falsetto: fibrillating, saturated, enters line 3] moonflower, moonflower / burst your name across the lunar, across the blame we trade our wings for roots that drink the night we kiss the rot until it sugars on our tongue [chorus 3] [music: half-time kick, register leap on “crack”, full choir pad] bloom where the landfill sighs let the fruit split / let the city crack let the seed-bombs fatten with rain let the perfume testify: mess is habitat lush is the law of the blushing rind we leak sugar, we leak noise we leak sugar, we leak noise [outro] [fx: compost steam rises, sprinkler slows to isolated drops, tape hiss swallows final cricket]