Pendulum

[Intro, Dry ticks, hard L/R pan; percussive clicks, no reverb] [tick] [tick] [Verse 1, Minimal swing, angular bassline; clipped vocal, tight slapback] same time, same streetlight glow you say stay, then you say go every word shifts out of place i can’t read your face anymore i step in, you angle away close enough to make me stay every promise folds mid-air never lands, just hangs there [Chorus 1, Major lift, rigid groove; doubled chant, wide but controlled] back and forth, i’m caught in it like a pendulum, pendulum every time i lean your way i get pulled again back and forth, i never stick like a pendulum, pendulum you don’t stay, you just exist in the swing i’m in [Verse 2, Added tension, slight saturation; restrained vocal, dry front] arc gets wider every pass still returning just as fast always hovering mid-line never yours, never mine you’re the pull i can’t outrun shift position when i come hold me just outside the frame close enough to keep me named [Chorus 2, Reinforced groove, denser layering; chant stack, stereo tension] back and forth, i’m caught in it like a pendulum, pendulum every time i lean your way i get pulled again back and forth, i never stick like a pendulum, pendulum you don’t stay, you just exist in the swing i’m in [Verse 3, Compressed delivery, near-spoken; low dynamic, centered vocal] no fixed point, no release just a loop that never sleeps [Bridge, Drop to atmosphere, rupture entry; detached vocal, widening field] [pattern breaks] what if i don’t follow through let it pass instead of you if i freeze when you align does the motion finally die [no swing] [no return] [Final Chorus, Full force, widened stereo; layered chant, controlled saturation] back and forth, i’m caught in it like a pendulum, pendulum every time i lean your way i get pulled again back and forth, i never stick like a pendulum, pendulum you don’t stay, you just exist in the swing i’m in back and forth [pendulum] never set, never still [pendulum] just the swing just the— [Outro, Decay then hard stop; dry ticks, abrupt cutoff] [tick] [tick] [stop]