
Last Call
[Intro: warm, social, instrumental] (String plucks, ambient bar noise, soft synth swell) [Verse 1: clean, upbeat, conversational] [Female Vocal] [Breathy] one more round before we close (just one more) everybody's laughing loud golden glow and letting go (you've earned this) lost inside a growing crowd it's only friday night (all nights are friday nights) where's the harm in feeling right [Pre-Chorus: shifting, uneasy] [Female Vocal] but the nights are getting long 6 A M and sleep won't come and the quiet feels so wrong [Chorus: drop hits, bottle speaks] [Female Vocal] [Sultry] [Operatic] [Layered Vocals] pour me one more into the dark (you need this) let me sand the patch of this life (you need this) pour me one more into the dark pour out one more into the dark i can't sleep without my ... handle of Sky [Verse 2: heavy, half-time, intimate] [Female Vocal] [Breathy] My friends The Captain, Jack Daniels and Jim Bean promised it would get me reprieve just enough to quiet what terrorizes me [Break] (Half-time groove, guitar chug drops in) comfort hailing from the south but i wake with cotton mouth ... stomach churning ears are ringing lights are stinging forehead on the floor I swear i'll stop (you said that before) [Pre-Chorus: dry, hollow] [Female Vocal] [Whisper] but the bottle's always there (waiting) and I'm too tired to care [Chorus: drop hits] [Female Vocal] [Sultry] [Operatic] [Layered Vocals] pour me one more into the dark (you need this) let me blunt the edge off the knife (you need this) pour me one more into the dark pour out one more into the dark i swore I'd stop but it's ... ."Miller Time" [Breakdown: half-time, dolly pocket] [Female Vocal] [Aggressive] stumble to my desk coffee starts to splatter just another rung on a breaking ladder clocked in at nine still wasted from last night my shirt got too tight [Groove, Dolly Pocket] Workin' 8 to 6 barely holdin' it together every little lie I keep breathin' just to give it they just scan the room and I know that they can smell it it's enough to crack and crumble if I vomit [Verse 3: rock bottom, half-time, sparse, dry] [Female Vocal] [Breathy] You built a house inside a bottle and I called it home I built a throne out of the wreckage and you sat alone every exit looks like rock bottom and it's all going down each shotglass had the last one (just kidding!) [Build] (Crescendo vamp, bass rising) pour out one last one into the dark [Breakdown: kitschy, glitchy, house beat] (House beat, glitch artifacts, kitschy energy) Wanna get this party started? [1 bar, noise] [Spoken Word] no. [Breakdown: a break] (Silence. Cinematic atmosphere. Raw emotional arc.) [Verse 4: clean, upbeat, conversational: resolution, soft] [Female Vocal] [Breathy] the glass sits empty on the top shelf those cold delights are gone Is that person in the mirror myself the lonely nights stretch on and on ... ... and i don't know how to start to be the person in the light [soft] [breathy] without the comfort of the dark just the sound of my own, dried out heart [Outro: spoken word] [Spoken Word] sober scared here [Humming]

