[Intro - Instrumental, 4 Bars, Fingerpicked Acoustic, Dusty Room Tone, SFX: Cedar Drawer Creak, Paper Rustle] [Verse 1 - Sparse, Fingerpicked Acoustic Only, Intimate, Low Male Vocal, Vulnerable, Close Mic] The smell of the old cedar chest fills the room fills my eyes fills my lungs [Verse 2 - Same, Add Soft Upright Bass] It's been decades since I have seen these things old things old wings [Verse 3 - Add Ghost Brush Snare] Here is my old high school yearbook where I wasn't me the way I used to look who I used to be [Verse 4 - Slight Vocal Crack, More Present] Old photographs I know who I once was but he doesn't seem familiar how can this be it's because... [Chorus - Drums Enter Soft Then Full, Bass, Aching Electric Guitar Swell, Raw, Anthemic, Slightly Slurred] Ohh I got drunk by myself and stumbled down into my past they always told me, I never believed them, time doesn't go fast all these things and people, I'm so glad they didn't last but did I ever escape? The man in these photos, did he ever escape? [Verse 5 - Pull Back to Acoustic + Bass Only, Wincing Vocal] As I was digging I got a splinter under the fingernail what level of hell was that how did he ever find his way back [Verse 6 - Add Paper Rustle SFX] A desperate love letter I never sent people in photos I didn't like all of that time spent [Bridge - Stripped To Almost Nothing, Tape Warble, Whisper to Spoken, No Drums] Photos of me trying things I never tried again photos of losing things I would never win photos of places I will never see again and again and again but this photo of me hey man how have you been [Chorus - Bigger, Full Band, Add Harmony Layer, Vocal Breaking] Ohh I got drunk by myself and stumbled down into my past they always told me, I never believed them, time doesn't go fast all these things and people, I'm so glad they didn't last but did I ever escape? The man in these photos, did he ever escape? [Verse 7 - On The Floor, Minimal, Exhausted Vocal, Breath Audible, Single Guitar] Well I woke up on this floor, splinter still under my nail dried tears on my face, these photos never fail why do I do this to myself? [Verse 8 - Add Distant Weeping Pedal Steel] The air is musty, moldy and the memory stale I remember the photo I sent you in the mail why did I do that to myself? [Final Chorus - Biggest, Rawest, All Instruments, Vocal Almost Shouting Then Falling Apart] Ohh I got drunk by myself and stumbled down into my past they always told me, I never believed them, time doesn't go fast all these things and people, I'm so glad they didn't last but did I ever escape? The man in these photos, did he ever escape? [Outro - Everything Drops, Single Guitar, Paper Shuffling, Breathing, Box Closing SFX] [Outro Vocal: Tired, Barely There Whisper] Did he ever escape? [End]
