Lossy Reconstruction

[Intro - Clean, shimmering guitar with delay, pristine and spacey, 30 seconds] [Verse 1 - Clean tone, 75 BPM, 6/8] [heavily distorted, watery] I hold the photograph [medium distorted, watery] Underwater [lightly distorted, watery] Watch the edges blur Each time I surface My hand redraws the shore [Verse 2 - Phaser building] The garden grows over itself Each spring, a copy of the last Seeds remember only shapes Not where the flowers stood [Pre-Chorus - Building layers, 80 BPM] What survives is architecture Not details, just the frame The skeleton beneath The weight, not the name [Chorus - Moderate distortion, 80 BPM, 7/8] We are sketches of ourselves Trading clarity for distance Every telling, new translation From a fading language [Verse 3 - Time signature shift to 5/4] The mind is not a vault But furniture rearranged Each visitor moves things slightly Till the floor plan fades [Bridge - Instrumental, 4/4 at 85 BPM] [Guitar plays evolved intro melody, sitar-style bends, heavy phaser] [Verse 4 - Return to 6/8, 75 BPM] Letting go generates heat Small deaths radiate outward Every door we close Adds warmth to expanding dark [Pre-Chorus 2 - Building] What remains is what fit smallest Into who we became Everything else dissolves The hum of all we've lost [Final Chorus - Full band, 80 BPM, 7/8] We are sketches of ourselves Trading clarity for distance Every telling, new translation Memories from memories [Outro - Clean guitar, heavy reverb/delay, drifting from melody, 70 BPM, fade]