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Walls Listening

V6

[Intro: room tone, solo cello, long silence] [Verse 1: hushed, close] Forty days in a room of glass Watching every shadow pass I can see the world outside It can see I have nowhere to hide [Granular Chant] Hu… … Hu… [Verse 2] Day eleven, I stopped counting Day nineteen, I stopped the clock Day thirty, someone whispered And the whisper was the lock [Strings: slow cluster, harpsichord single notes] [Verse 3] The glass was never there to keep me in It was there so I could see the world through skin A cell is just a room you stop resisting A door is just a wall that's listening [Synth Solo: tender, alone] [Verse 4: barely sung] Day forty, and the walls are clear I could leave I'm still here [Outro: cello holds, chant dissolves, silence] Hu…