Infrastructure

[Intro] (upright bass solo, walking slow, no piano) (piano enters with right hand improvised melody, left hand sparse chords) [Verse 1] (voice low, entering over bass and piano) No one sees the pipe beneath the floor The water just arrives The model runs before the question forms The answer just derives [Verse 2] (space between lines, piano improvises between vocal phrases) Someone somewhere laid this down I'm here using what they made Not thinking of the layer under Just standing on what stayed [Chorus] (soft but clear, grounded warmth) Infrastructure That's the ground Still beneath it all Still holding up Infrastructure Nothing notices it Just the base and the silence Still running through [Verse 3] (voice near speaking, piano answers each line) Pipe went in… and held the flow A layer underneath… a thing we'll never know I let the system… run how it runs Not every ground… needs to be seen by anyone [Outro] (almost silent, piano fades to single notes) Still running now… soft and plain Same quiet holding… again and again Let the base settle… let the flow start Still infrastructuring quietly… still.