[Instrumental Intro - broken electro pulse, deep sub, short dub chords dissolving into stereo delays] [Verse 1] The bass gets through Before anything else Two notes shake the cupboard door Then settle into the wall I never hear the whole song Only the part The plaster lets me have Sometimes a kick Sometimes a voice Too far away to make out words Then the pipes answer When somebody runs the shower And somewhere behind my bookshelf A chair moves across the floor I’ve lived beside you long enough To know which sounds belong here [Refrain] One wall over I only get the low end Never enough to know the song Enough to know you’re home One wall over The room keeps what comes through I couldn’t sing your melody But I would know your bassline anywhere [Dub Interlude - sparse electro drums, deep sub response, delayed chord stabs passing across the stereo field] [Verse 2] Weekends start differently Music sometime after lunch A vacuum cleaner underneath it Then nothing for a while There’s one record You play twice I recognise the pause Before it starts again I’ve heard friends arrive And bottles touch the kitchen counter Once, somebody laughed so hard I laughed too That felt strange We passed each other by the lift More than once Always a nod Never enough time To attach a story to a face [Refrain] One wall over I only get the low end Never enough to know the song Enough to know you’re home One wall over The room keeps what comes through I couldn’t sing your melody But I would know your bassline anywhere [Long Instrumental - heavier broken electro groove, dub chords, sub pulses, filtered distant music bleeding briefly through the texture] [Final Scene] The door beside mine Is open this morning Cardboard against the hallway wall A lamp A folded rug Three boxes marked KITCHEN You step out Holding a plant by the pot We stop You say: “Morning.” I say it back Then you glance toward the boxes “Finally moving.” Like I already knew Maybe I did By evening The hallway is clear I put my keys down Make something to eat Sit on the sofa And wait without meaning to The wall stays quiet [Refrain Fragment - stripped, intimate] One wall over Nothing comes through [Outro - clean sub pulse, isolated dub chord, long stereo decay] The room finally has The silence I used to complain about.
