Quiet

[Intro] [Near silence] [A single faint, unstable synthesizer tone slowly emerges] [Several seconds of silence before the vocal] Quiet... Quiet... [Verse 1] [Intimate, delicate female vocal, almost spoken, innocent and matter-of-fact] [Very sparse accompaniment, no percussion] It's always quiet here when darkness falls I hear the quiet music in the dark I hear the quiet music in the dark What the night decides to let me hear Those sounds are slowly filling up my ears They settle soft like wax inside my head A sticky little snail that won't leave me alone [Short instrumental pause] [The synthesizer tone wavers almost imperceptibly] [Verse 2] [Same intimate vocal, restrained and unhurried] [Soft isolated piano notes, faint low drone] I hear the quiet voices singing songs In a language I don't know But I can feel their sadness The sound is pressing gently on my breath Like warm wax from a candle in my throat And that sticky snail still lives inside me, slow [Very soft, distant vocal tone, almost indistinguishable from the synthesizer] Stuck in my heart... Stuck in my heart... [Short silence] [Verse 3] [The vocal becomes slightly more conversational, as if describing an ordinary morning] [Subtly brighter atmosphere, but the low drone remains] [No sudden change in energy] Then I wake up and hear life buzzing loud The sun is shining right into my room I run through all my daily chores and smile No other sounds but real ones fill my ears The day goes bright, the night just slips away But deep inside of me the music still lives on [Outro] [The lead vocal disappears] [The original unstable synthesizer tone remains] [A distant, almost voice-like texture can just barely be heard beneath it] [No resolution, no final chord] [The sound fades slowly into silence]