[Intro - low tremolo violas, distant thunder-rumble timpani, one lone cello bowing a tritone that refuses to resolve… then silence] [Verse 1 - Kit calls, Kate answers, voices almost touching] [Kit:] The fox in me wants to sway and howl [Kate:] (Sway… and howl) [Kit:] Dream and shout [Kate:] (We dream… and shout) [Kit:] The man full of angst and doubt [Kate:] (Breathe… let it go) [Kit:] Fox, angry, man, depressed and suppressed… [Kate:] (Rise - - - dream - - - shout) Scream and shout! [Pre-Chorus - strings swell, taiko heartbeat starts] [Both, overlapping, closer:] [Kate whispers:] I’m the night you’re terrified to want [Kit growls:] I’m the wound you keep tearing open [Both, aching harmony:] Come closer… come closer… [Chorus - everything explodes, guitars drop in like cathedral doors slamming open] [Kate, soaring:] Sway and howl, my love, let the animal out [Kit, crushing:] Dream and shout, tear the heavens down [Kate:] We dream and shout, until the walls bleed sound [Kit:] I'm full of angst and doubt... [Both, voices braided in a tritone that finally resolves into heartbreaking major:] Breathe… let it go… Let it go tonight! [Verse 2 - tempo sways into 3/4, almost waltz-like, intimate and dangerous] [Kate, breathy, close-mic’d:] I taste the ash on your lips when you lie [Kit:] I wear your silence like chains [Kate:] Fox eyes glowing in the candlelight [Kit:] Man knees breaking on the altar of shame [Kate:] Take my hand, love, we’ll burn it all the same… [Chorus - even bigger this time, taiko and timpani duel, strings screaming] [Kate:] Sway and howl! [Kit:] Dream and shout! [Kate:] We dream and shout! [Both, voices cracking open:] Let the whole cathedral fall around us now! [Melodic Guitar solo; rising, rising, embellish descending silence] [Bridge - sudden drop to almost nothing: solo cello, one kick drum like a dying heart, whispered duet] [Kate, barely audible:] Stay… [Kit:] I’m afraid I’ll ruin you [Kate:] Ruin me slowly, then [Both, rising from whisper to roar as the full orchestra crashes back in:] I was made for this ruin! [Final Chorus - wall-of-sound apocalypse, guitars and choir of strings in unison] [Kate:] Sway and howl until the moon forgives us [Kit:] Dream and shout until our names are dust [Both, voices locked in perfect, painful harmony:] We are the angst, we are the doubt We are the scream that tears the night inside out [Both howl:](AOOOUWWW!...) Breathe... Let it go… Let it go… Let it go with me! [Outro - everything decays into cathedral reverb, last cello note bending into a fox’s distant howl… then silence.]
