[Intro – vast reverbed silence, distant piano drip like holy water, breathy ad-lib hums] ahh… hmm… ooh… (isn’t it strange…?) [Verse 1 – intimate husky whisper, fragile vulnerability, massive reverb like drowning] i’d like to pretend… (ahh…) everything is going the way i wanted (when it never would…) (hmm…) maybe it is and i don’t see it as is (ooh…) [Pre-Chorus – atmospheric emotional swell, long silence gaps, wordless echoes] patience is a virtue… (ahh… ahh…) time is the answer… (hmm… hmm…) (oh… it sounds so good…) [Chorus – slow aching release, held notes carried by oceanic reverb, purifying stillness] but it feels like salt on my wounds salt… (ahh…) on my wounds… (ooh…) (salt… salt… salt…) [Verse 2 – deeper confession, even longer pauses, ad-lib hums] i’d like to pretend… (hmm…) everything is going the way i wanted (when it never would…) [Bridge – hushed sacred moment, near-silence with faint distant piano and breath] salt… purifies… (ahh…) salt… burns… (ooh…) salt… stays… (hmm…) [Final Chorus – heightened cathartic peak, massive reverb haze, voice held like a prayer] but it feels like salt on my wounds salt… (ahh…) on my wounds… (ooh…) (salt… salt… salt…) [Outro – slow lingering held notes, fading into heavy reverb silence with oceanic echoes] salt… (salt… salt…) on my wounds… (ahh… ooh… hmm…) (fade to distant hum and vast silence)
