[Style cue: harmonies stack gang vox on final line build drums from tambour to full kit] [Verse 2 transitional start country then sway] [Voice: same female voice loosens into psychedelic phrasing] I keep a pocket full of small forgotten songs They smell like dust and rain and rooms where I belong I speak in letters bent and crooked soft and long And watch the air rearrange the words I thought were strong [Bridge Psychedelic Flow] [Style cue: synth arpeggio phaser on guitar soft side-chained pads reverb tails lengthen] [Voice: female more fluid start to half-sing half-sway] The sky it folds [folds] the road unthreads [un-threads] Memory slides like glass I keep my head I keep my head [Chorus] Perceptual oblivion and I am learning to fly [Rap Verse] I came in calm now I crawl out loud I rip the calm and throw it to the crowd [ha! ha!] I count the clocks that tore my trust tick-tick I turn 'em into clouds Percep-chu-al I split the frame [per-sep-CHOO-al] watch me rename I am the sum of tiny breaks the faultline that they could not tame You taught me how to be polite while the floor was burning I smiled I nodded then I learned the lesson that the lesson was learning Hands in my pocket full of once-was heart still earning Now I flip the script I scream the glyph watch the old shit burning [phonetic emphasis] SAY IT: [per-SEP-choo-uhl] [OB-liv-ee-on] [OOH!] [Style cue: scream hook lines with crowd chant then heavy guitar palm-muted riff] [Rap Bridge more metallic syncopated] I bite the line I spit the sign I pull the plug on tired designs [Rap Bridge more metallic syncopated] I bite the line I spit the sign I pull the plug on tired designs [repeat like a mantra] I am not the same I am not the same I re-define [per-sep-CHOOL] I am the fracture and the fine I hold the pressure then I let it go tellin' myself it'll be just fine [Style note: add throaty shouted ad-lib industrial snare hits on last line] [Chorus Reimagined full band stadium scale] Perceptual oblivion we learn to fly through shattered light [Style cue: subtle synth shimmer vocal doubles enter tempo nudges up] [Chorus] Perceptual oblivion and I am learning to fly [per-sep-CHOOL] oblivion I give my edges to the wind And something in the open looks back like it might be kin [Final Chorus duet female lead + rap backing gang chant huge outro] Perceptual oblivion [sing] take the ache reshape the sky [per-sep-CHOOL] oblivion [rap call] break it build it multiply We fold and we forgive we cut the old and testify Perceptual oblivion sing it once then one more time [Outro fading psychedelic guitar gentle acoustic reprise of intro motif] [Style cue: bring production back down intimate close mic vocal double on last line] Perceptual oblivion [soft female] per-sep-CHOOL oblivion [Style cue: bring production back down intimate close mic vocal double on last line] Perceptual oblivion [soft female] per-sep-CHOOL oblivion [Style cue: bring production back down intimate close mic vocal double on last line] Perceptual oblivion [soft female] per-sep-CHOOL oblivion [per-sep-CHOOL] oblivion rise and go rise and
