soft antlers, heavy sky (Remix)

[Intro: vinyl crackle, slow groove, nylon guitar plucks, C# minor] the sky hung low and wide like it hadn’t stretched in a while i didn’t mean to be still but it felt like the right shape my book was closed on my lap still warm from reading and out from the trees he came like a question [Verse 1: sub bass pulse, vocal stack in low register, filtered static] he was huge in a soft kind of way like a boulder that might listen i didn’t move not because i was brave but because my ribs forgot how he sniffed the air like it told stories and stepped forward like maybe i belonged there but barely [Chorus: lo-fi vocal double, soft marimba echo, breath texture] i held my breath like a trick to make the moment stay he didn’t flinch and i didn’t blink and time forgot its job [Bridge: stereo bloom enters, breath samples woven, slow-clap rhythm begins] somewhere a branch cracked but not in a bad way more like the forest shifting its weight to make room i thought: he could kill me, probably but i hadn’t done anything wrong and maybe he could tell [Final Verse: vocal double, slight analog decay, gentle marimba echo] his eyes weren’t human but they weren’t not they held me without asking questions we didn’t move for seven minutes or maybe less but when i stood up later i was different in a way that didn’t need fixing [Outro: slow decay, static bloom, heartbeat bass trail]