[Title: What Happened to You] [Intro – Ambient guitar drone + soft vinyl crackle] [*Instrumentation:* sparse electric guitar harmonics, low-end swell, distant breath sample fades in*] [*Vocal FX:* spoken whisper, barely audible: "I didn’t know you were here... neither did you."] [Verse 1 – Spoken delivery, intimate mic tone] I was waiting around when you suddenly appeared. Not like a memory, not like light— just there. Still. As if you’d been standing in that same spot for years. I didn’t know you were here. Neither did you. [Instrumental Interlude – Slow tremolo guitar, distant Rhodes chord swells] [Verse 2 – Spoken-sung, deeper tone] Your face held all the years we skipped. Tucked just beneath your eyes were whole seasons we never spoke about. Your arms looked borrowed, like they moved out of obligation, not instinct. I tried to ask, but the words died somewhere between us. [Pre-Chorus – Whispered + doubled vocal track] You smiled like someone watching a window break from the inside. And when you spoke, your voice didn’t match your body. Like the sentence belonged to someone else and you were just mouthing it. [Chorus – 18+, dark tone, low-pitched harmony layer] Your face used to hold expression. Now it’s stretched thin — like something worn too often, too hard. Your skin has that grey, dry pull that comes from nights with no sleep and days you never asked for. Your lips crack when you try to smile. Your eyes? Vacant. The lights are out, and no one’s touched the switch in years. [Break – Instrumental build: brushed drums enter slowly + ambient strings layer in] [Verse 3 – Spoken, slightly faster phrasing] You laughed— too loud, too late, at nothing. Then looked down, you looked betrayed . Your pupils had no shape. Only expansion and collapse. Like time dissolved into nothingness. [Bridge – Harmonic shift, soft piano chords echo underneath] I wanted to ask where you’ve been. But all I could see was where you were going. [Chorus Reprise – Stripped-down vocal, ambient pads only] Your face used to say too much. Now it says nothing. You blink, but it’s not you behind your eyes. And I still look for you in the pieces, the spark in your core. [Outro – Vocal whisper, single sustained guitar note fading out] What happened to you? Or maybe— what didn’t? what didn’t..., what didn’t... ) [*FX:* Delay decay on “didn’t”, ambient hiss swell, hard stop]
