[Energy: Irritated, kinetic and sarcastic; dark but never sad] [Tempo: Verse 1 116 BPM; Verse 2 132; Pre-Chorus 148; Chorus 108; Verse 3 126; Bridge 154; hostile Outro 74] [Tonal system: No minor-key center. D anchors bright E, F# and Bb major shapes. F/F# and C/C# remain unresolved. Harmony feels accusatory and alert rather than tragic] [Meter: Uneven throughout. Verse 1: 9/8; Verse 2: 7/8 and 10/8; Pre-Chorus: 5/8; Chorus: 13/8; Verse 3: 11/8 and 7/8; Bridge: 15/8. Expose missing beats and displaced snares] [Male vocal: Dry low tenor-baritone with contemptuous humor. Every section gets a different melodic identity: broken fourths in Verse 1, descending chromatic shapes in Verse 2, a three-note trap in the Pre-Chorus, an independent angular hook in the Chorus, and near-monotone calm in Verse 3. No sad crooning, screams, growls, rap cadence, melisma, humming or wordless vocals] [Motif: “Not mine” always falls F#-F-D, with “not” repeated and “mine” dropping to D. The band answers by rising D-E-Bb-F#, so refusal and consequence move in opposite directions] [Verse 1] you strike the match i get the atmosphere funny how your habit becomes my civic duty "you'll get used to it" what a beautiful phrase for making your poison someone else's weather [Verse 2] aisle four is screaming again somebody's little apocalypse running loose between the shelves parenthood, apparently, is an open-source project once the volume gets high enough [Pre-Chorus] not mine not mine not mine two words and suddenly innocence has a dress code [Chorus] whose world is this the one with no fingerprints the smoke belongs to nobody the noise has no address the dog barks through another afternoon into the great republic of "not my problem" what a clean little miracle everyone makes the mess nobody leaves a name [Verse 3] that dog isn't loud it's giving testimony seven hours in a yard repeating the same sentence to a court that never opens you call it freedom you call it normal you call it a pet language really can do anything [Bridge] mine mine mine not mine not mine not mine...
