[Intro: music-box arpeggios, hummed thirds] (mmm-ah, mmm-ah, ah-ah) [808 glides answer vocal melody] [Verse 1: lilting sing-rap, legato phrasing] Every version of me left a coat by the door Every road that I've walked keeps demanding more All the lives that I love have a piece of my name And I'm dreaming of a world where nobody makes a claim (ooh-ah, ooh-ah) [Pre-Chorus: ascending falsetto, stacked thirds] What if I cut every thread? (oh-oh, let it go) Paint the sky above me red Then let it snow (ah-ah-ah-AHH!) [Chorus: soaring octave leaps, lush harmonies] Give me a blank, blank canvas Give me a road that runs straight No more a thousand tomorrows Fighting for one yesterday (Ooh-woah-oh, ooh-woah-oh) If I could lose every life I've made Would the silence finally feel like peace? [Drop: melodic vocal chops, syncopated 808] (clean-clean-clean) (ah-ee-ah!) (no-more-no-more) (ooh-oh-oh!) [Melodic cowbell counterpoint, breakbeat] [Verse 2: flowing melody, rising cadences] I could leave every key on the kitchen floor Let a stranger be the one who walks out the door But the walls have a voice and the rooms have a name Would a sunrise feel as warm if I burned away the frame? (away-ay-ay) [Bridge: beatless, falsetto call-response] (Stay-aaay) cries the life I know (Go-ooo) sings the open road [Four-part harmony, crescendo] Maybe peace is not a place Maybe I can't run from my own face! [Final Chorus: key lift, countermelody] Blank, blank canvas, calling me (ah-ah-ah) So close to free! A perfect line, an open plain But who am I if nothing remains? [Outro: descending falsetto melisma] (Ooh-ah-ah-ah) [808 decays, music-box resolves]
