[track: genre: Trip-Hop + Hauntology, style: coldwave, minimalist, atmospheric, lo-fi, mood: tense, paranoid, melancholic, tempo: 80bpm, vocals: female, hushed, confessional, instruments: sampled percussion, synth drone, pedal steel, sub-bass] [verse 1 | tempo: 80bpm, mood: tense, vocals: hushed, instruments: sampled percussion, bass drone] Another room, another wall Before the auctioneer's last call I trace the canvas, check the grain To verify and to explain [pre-chorus 1 | intensity: rising, instruments: synth arpeggio enters, vocals: insistent] It starts with the web across the face A fugitive color I can't erase I know this space [chorus 1 | dynamics: medium, vocals: layered harmonies, instruments: pedal steel swells, sub-bass] I see the underdrawing plain A graphite sketch beneath the stain The artist that you tried to be Is all pentimento to me [verse 2 | mood: paranoid, vocals: close-mic whisper, instruments: sampled percussion, bass drone] The auction house is in my head The curse came home and went to bed And now I magnify each word The crudest replica I've heard Your face becomes a study for A work I can't attribute anymore [pre-chorus 2 | intensity: rising, instruments: synth arpeggio faster, vocals: strained] And now with you it's just the trace A thin new varnish on your face I know this space [chorus 2 | dynamics: loud, vocals: forceful delivery, instruments: distorted pedal steel, aggressive sub-bass] I see your underdrawing plain The graphite sketch beneath the stain The person that you try to be You're all pentimento to me [bridge | modulation: sudden major-shift, mood: disoriented, instruments: dissonant piano cluster, vocals: vulnerable] You offer up that raking-light look The final page in a closed book You try a solvent-and-turpentine plea To get a different price from me [instrumental break | rhythm: 7/8 meter, instruments: pedal steel solo, glitchy samples] [pre-chorus 3 | dynamics: drop to silence, vocals: vocal fry, acapella] Just tell-tale lines, tell-tale lines And false designs, and false designs [chorus 3 | dynamics: explosive, vocals: anthemic, belted, instruments: all layers, heavy drums] I see the underdrawing plain A violent sketch beneath the stain The master that you long to be Is all pentimento to me [outro | dynamics: fade to nothing, vocals: fragmented whispers, instruments: single drone note, reverb tail] A thump, a click... the final scan This gesso feels like my own hand (is it all pentimento, me?)
