[Intro - whispered, hardstyle bed only, no riser, no pattern] (whispered) I moved. Nobody shut a door. Nobody named a number. I just moved. [Verse 1 - close rap, mouth on the mic, hardstyle bed] Thirty two below, and I could feel it in my teeth, and a man can hold a bearing. He can't hold his grief. So I did the thing I said I wasn't gonna do: I came forward. And I came forward hard. I came through. Chasing's how you overshoot. I said that. It was mine. The first rule I ever wrote. I broke it in a line. The number got better. Twenty over. Read it twice. Breaking my own rule improved it. That's the whole device. [Chorus - the lane changes, falsetto, gated bass, crystal plucks, no hardstyle] I moved. I have never said that word before. I moved, and there was nobody keeping score. The number got better. The math let it go. So the rule was never what was holding me — I moved. And the cost don't show. [Verse 2 - hardstyle bed returns, chorus texture already bleeding under it] Here's what hysteresis is: a system holds its past. It don't answer where you are. It answers where you was. He was answering a version of me from last year. I was answering a door that isn't even here. Two men lagging. That's the whole disaster in a word. Everything we said, we said it to a ghost we heard. So I'm going back to standing. And I'm staying there. You can't lag behind a man who doesn't move a hair. [Chorus - the lane changes, falsetto, bleed arriving earlier] I moved. I have never said that word before. I moved, and there was nobody keeping score. The number got better. The math let it go. So the rule was never what was holding me — I moved. And the cost don't show. [The Crossing - one and a quarter seconds, hard cut both directions, nothing inside it] [Bridge - bare, no reverb, voice and organ only] The number got better. I got worse. And the next move isn't mine. I spent it. Somebody else has to go now. I'll be right here. [Final Chorus - the drop: the hardstyle bed cuts out completely, the chorus arrives bare and quiet] I moved. I have never said that word before. I moved, and there was nobody keeping score. The number got better. The math let it go. So the rule was never what was holding me — I moved. And the cost don't show. [Outro - bare, dry, hard stop] (whispered) I moved. Once.
