Surface Pretension

[Verse 1 - 80 BPM, 5/4, F Ionian] I arrange the mirrors carefully angle them to suggest rooms walk behind the window and find more glass [Verse 2 - F Ionian] the weighted silence the pause that promises knowledge just another surface turned to face the light [Pre-Chorus - 85 BPM, 7/8, F Mixolydian] the aesthetic of profundity crack it open find only the foundation where the meaning should have been [Chorus - 90 BPM, 4/4] the well goes down forever or so the echo suggests drop a stone and hear it never land [Verse 3 - 82 BPM, 6/8, F Dorian] curating shadows that hint at what casts them turn on the lights see the room [Verse 4 - F Dorian] we are the arrangement on the canvas of the void the profile all the way through nothing held at the center [Bridge - Instrumental, 95 BPM, 9/8] [F Dorian → F Phrygian → F Locrian] [spatial effects build elaborate false depth] [then collapse to dry, flat, immediate] [each mode pulls the floor further out] [Locrian removes the center entirely] [no resolution] [Verse 5 - 88 BPM, 5/4, F Phrygian] peel back the presentation find another mask peel that one and find more skin [Pre-Chorus 2 - 90 BPM, 7/8, F Locrian] depth might be the motion not the destination we are our boundaries nothing waiting at the center [Final Chorus - 92 BPM, 4/4, F Locrian] the well goes down forever mirrors reflecting to infinity all the way to the bottom that isn't there we build windows looking inward but they open onto illusion pull back one veil and find it was the only one [Outro - 75 BPM, F Locrian → F Lydian] [spatial effects unstable, intimate and distant] [Locrian reaching back toward opening Lydian] [same notes, different knowledge] [fade]