[Very Short Instrumental Intro] [Soft melodic bass pulse, one clean guitar chord] [Dry acoustic drums, barely moving] [Vocal enters immediately] [Verse 1 – Close, warm British baritone, conversational] At first nothing happened. [Pause] Or so I believed. [Pause] One little rule was changing. [Pause] Without a sound. [Pause] One more check than before. [Pause] For our safety. [Pause] One question. [Pause] Still hanging in the air. [Pause] The next day it was gone. [Pause] [Verse 2 – Observant, restrained] I saw them arriving. [Pause] They seemed so helpful. [Pause] They put things in order. [Pause] Then they started to stay. [Pause] Not always. [Pause] Not everywhere. [Pause] But just enough. [Pause] [Instrumental Lift – 4 Bars] [Melodic bass motif grows, sustained guitar bends] [Drums introduce displaced snare accents] [Verse 3 – Close vocal, subtle growing tension] In the streets of Brezza [Pause] one road was closed. [Pause] During the night. [Pause] No warning signs. [Pause] No explanation. [Pause] Just barricades. [Pause] The people slowed down. [Pause] They watched. [Pause] Then carried on. [Pause] As always. [Pause] [Verse 4 – Wonder, unsettling calm] One morning somebody pointed at the sky. [Pause] The lighthouse was there. [Pause] As if it had always been. [Pause] As if I had simply forgotten. [Pause] [Special – Intimate, suspended vocal] [Only bass and sparse guitar harmonics] The words kept turning around. [Pause] But some of them were falling behind. [Pause] Growing heavier. [Pause] Getting harder to say. [Pause] [Instrumental Lift – 8 Bars] [Blues-inflected lead guitar, few sustained notes] [Angular rhythm guitar, bass becomes more insistent] [Drums build through syncopation, then suddenly stop] [Verse 5 – Quiet determination] Shaven heads. [Pause] Dark glasses. [Pause] On the corners of the streets. [Pause] Never moving. [Pause] Always watching. [Pause] [Outro – Exposed voice, unresolved guitar] And I kept on living. [Pause] Almost normal. [Pause] Almost. [Long Silence] [One Unresolved Guitar Note] [End]
