[Intro - 12-vbar instrumental, poetic neopunk guitar riffs with flamenco undertones interplaying with reverbed piano] [Verse 1] [Unintended rhythm: calm, delicate arpeggios] I kept your name in a folded note Slipped between the pages I won’t read again I watched your smile from a borrowed distance I learned the shape of every moment we never had [Verse 2] [same gentle flow] The quiet was a kindness you never meant A soft refusal no word could break I carried it like a hidden ember In the hollow of my hands, in the hollow of my chest [Chorus] [Exit Music rhythm: sparse at first, swelling] And it grows… [slow bass under voice] Like a bruise I can’t unmake And it grows… [drum pulse, rising strings] Like a howl I never say And it grows… [distorted guitar begins] Till the silence starts to shake And I know… [full band explodes] You won’t ever look my way [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] [returns to calm arpeggios] I measure the hours by the things unsaid The half-closed door, the missing reply I dress my hunger in patient language I breathe it down— I breathe it down— I breathe it down [Chorus] [builds again] And it grows… Like a fever under skin And it grows… Like a storm I’m sheltering And it grows… Till the walls begin to bend And I know… There’s no cure for what I am [Instrumental Break] [Bridge] [quietest moment, almost spoken] You can keep your gentle distance You can keep your quiet grace I will keep this secret violence I will keep this unnamed ache [Solo] [Chorus] [final, most intense] And it grows… Like a bruise I can’t unmake And it grows… Like a howl I never say And it grows… Till it fills the hollow space And I know… I will never look away [Instrumental Break] [Outro] [slow decay to nothing] I will never look away… I will never look away… [fading] I will never… (never, never) never
