[Voice: Clear Emotional Tenor | Conversational Verse | Slow Burn | No Rasp] [Intro] (instrumental — single sustained guitar chord, heavy reverb blooming outward, bass enters on bar 3 with a slow melodic descending line, no drums at all — 10 bars, guitar chord changes once at bar 7, tension held unresolved into the verse) [Verse 1] You're reading something on the couch I don't ask what We've gotten good at this Existing in the same square footage [Verse 1 — cont.] (bass continues its descending line, hi-hat enters at half-time on bar 3, guitar sustains open chord — no strum, just bloom — 4 bars) The window's been cracked since Tuesday Neither of us closed it That feels like something I just don't know what [Pre-Chorus] (snare enters brushed on 2 and 4 — restrained, guitar begins slow rhythmic strum underneath the reverb wash) I used to know the shape of you Before you learned to disappear like this Before I let you [Chorus] (full crash — guitars distorted and wide, open hi-hat washing over the beat, bass locks with kick drum, room drums huge and roomy, voice rises unhurried — held note on "hollow") There's something hollow Growing where we used to be There's something hollow And I think we both can see it We just won't say it (guitars sustain and bloom — 6 bars of reverb decay before dropping) [Instrumental Break] (bass carries a new melodic line alone for 4 bars — no guitar, no drums, clean guitar re-enters bar 5 with a single-note lead over the bass, drums return brushed and sparse bar 9, the guitar lead rises toward a resolution it never quite reaches — 16 bars total, full band swells quietly into the second verse on bar 16) [Verse 2] We had this thing in the beginning Where you'd find me in whatever room I was in Not to say anything Just to be where I was (same sparse pulse — half-time hi-hat, bass melodic, guitar bloom) I think about that a lot On nights like this When the couch and the bedroom Feel like different countries [Pre-Chorus] (snare brushed back in, guitar swell building underneath) I used to reach without thinking Now I think too long and the moment's gone You do it too I've seen you stop yourself [Chorus] (same explosion — toms added on bar 3 and bar 7, bass pushes slightly higher in the mix, voice a half-step more strained than the first chorus) There's something hollow Growing where we used to be There's something hollow And I think we both can see it We just won't say it (6-bar decay — guitar trails into silence) [Bridge] (everything drops except voice and a single clean guitar chord held with infinite reverb, no bass, no drums — the room becomes enormous, voice drops back to near-conversational, almost talking) I don't think either of us is the villain I think we just Stopped tending something And now look at it (4 bars of silence except the guitar reverb tail fading, then a single kick drum — once — on bar 4, snare ghost notes creeping in, distortion bleeding back under the guitar) [Chorus — Final] (biggest version — guitar fully distorted and doubled, open hi-hat crashing on every beat, toms rolling through the spaces between lines, voice at its peak — cracking on "hollow" the second time, last two lines drop to voice nearly alone, instruments falling away one by one) There's something hollow Growing where we used to be There's something hollow And I think we both can see it We just won't say it We just won't say it [Outro] (bass holds a long root note — 4 bars alone, clean guitar re-enters with the same sustained chord from the intro, reverb blooms back to where the song started, kick on beat 1 only — twice — then nothing, guitar chord decays into silence — 12 bars total)
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