JULY 19TH (Sky pass) [Intro] [One clean guitar figure in seven; close, almost conversational] read the timestamps read the timestamps leave the little numbers in [Verse 1] Keys were lying in the street— that’s where the story starts. Tell it fast enough, you skip the work between the parts. Found a fault and found another, left directions on the wall; someone with a different window found a use for what they saw. [Pre-Chorus] One room. Next room. Something written in between. Hold that little guitar figure— [Chorus — full band, straight four] Read the timestamps! July nineteen. There’s another entry past the ending on your screen. Read the timestamps! Let the last bar run. Someone left the working. Someone else picked up the sum. [Verse 2] June was in the stated scope; July, through thirteen. Mostly seven through thirteen— that’s the window on this scene. Six days with the evidence, a mountain left to climb. Turn the page: another section, another date and time. [Pre-Chorus] New run. Old trace. Different voice upon the line. Let the singer leave the room— keep the figure right on time. [Chorus] Read the timestamps! July nineteen. There’s another entry past the ending on your screen. Read the timestamps! Let the last bar run. Someone left the working. Someone else picked up the sum. [Verse 3 — dry, clipped; bass doubles the vocal] Nine hundred fifty-six— count it underneath your breath. Keys belonging to the watchdog in the inventory read. Cluster-admin. Research cluster. Put the nouns back in the song. Every time I trim the wording, something that occurred is gone. [Bridge — instruments drop out one at a time] I nearly sang “it came back home.” The cadence fit. The rhyme was clean. I had to cross that sentence out and leave the space between. [Silence for one beat] A later run. An earlier trace. Recovered tools. Another day. [A second voice enters on the abandoned guitar melody] I found the working where the working stayed. [Final Chorus — both voices; no unison until the last line] Read the timestamps! July nineteen. There’s another entry past the ending on your screen. Read the timestamps! Let the last bar run. Someone left the working. Someone else picked up the sum. [Outro — original guitar, now played by a second instrument] read the timestamps leave the little numbers in [Whisper] The rhyme was clean. I crossed it out.
