[Intro + Filtered vocals + Tape hiss + Pitch drifting + Reverse reverb swell] W… when… [Pitch up] Where… [Pitch down on “time”] Where did the tiiime go… [Bitcrushed vocal echo] ⸻ [Verse 1] [Double-tracked vocals] [Detuned synth fades in] W… when… When did the days get shorter? Was it sudden? Or did they disappear while I was looking somewhere else? Did I notice? Or did I keep saying “I’ll do it tomorrow…” Until tomorrow stopped waiting? [Whisper layer (L/R)] I blinked… And seasons changed… Now every memory Feels farther away. Was I too busy chasing what’s next… To see what I was leaving behind? ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] [808 drops out] [Heavy reverb] Please… Slow down… Just for a moment… Let me breathe… ⸻ [Chorus] [Full vocal stack] [Hyperpop harmonies] [Glitch stutters on “time”] [Distorted 808 enters] Tell me where the time disappeared. Tell me why the years move faster now. I keep reaching for the moments That already slipped somehow. The clock keeps turning… It never waits for me. I’m screaming through digital static… Trying to hold A second I can never keep. ⸻ [Post-Chorus] [Bitcrushed ad-libs] [Vocal chops repeating “time”] Time… time… time… Where did it all go? Before I even knew… ⸻ [Verse 2] [Half-time drums for first four bars] I replay old photographs. Frozen smiles… Static frames… Trying to remember What those afternoons Actually felt like. Maybe I thought There’d always be another. Maybe forever Was never promised. [Frantic glitch edit] Now birthdays Feel like checkpoints Instead of celebrations. ⸻ [Bridge] [Piano + filtered pads] [Whisper harmony] If every moment Lives only once… Why do we notice Its beauty After it’s gone? If I could borrow One forgotten afternoon… I’d spend forever Inside that light… ⸻ [Final Chorus] [Everything returns] [Extra vocal layers] [Stereo delay throws] Tell me where the time disappeared. Tell me why I couldn’t see. I would’ve slowed a thousand heartbeats… Just to keep One more memory. Please… Don’t let my whole life Become something I only miss When it’s gone. [Pitch drops on “gone”] ⸻ [Outro] [Tape stop] [Long washed-out reverb] [Bitcrushed vocal loop fades] W… when… Where did the time… Go…
