[Intro cold clean guitar, slow repetitive two-note motif, faint mechanical hum] [Two-note guitar motif] Hold... [Guitar response] Hold... [Deep repetitive bassline enters] [Verse 1 extremely low female contralto, intimate, restrained] There's a crack Along the side Small enough To let it hide Loose little wires Worn and thin I close the case [Short guitar response] It opens again I know the sound Before it starts Click... [Guitar] Crack... [Guitar] Then the dark [Pre-Chorus almost spoken] Hold it close [Guitar stab] Hold it still If it breaks [brief silence] I know it will [Chorus restrained, hypnotic, guitar answering the vocal] Mend it again Mend it again Bent and broken Back again [Melodic guitar response] Mend it again Mend it again Some things break But never end I know the cracks I know the bends [Two-note guitar] Mend it... Mend it again [Instrumental repetitive bass, dry snare, dirty chorus guitar] [Verse 2 low chest voice, slightly rougher] Weak little pulse Against my hand Beat... [Two-note guitar] Beat... I understand Every fault Every flaw Every place That came apart Cold connection Fading spark Still something moves [Short guitar response] Inside the dark [Instrumental Break guitar repeats the pulse rhythm] [Female voice, distant] Beat... [Guitar response] Beat... [Female voice, closer] Don't stop [Long guitar response] Don't stop [Bridge drums stripped back, bass pulses like a slow heartbeat] They say leave What won't stay whole Let it rust Let it go But I know Every missing part Every wire Every mark Every break Every bend [Two-note guitar] I would mend Them all again [Ghostly head-voice crack] Again... [immediate return to deep contralto] Again. [Extended Guitar Break melancholic lead built around the heartbeat motif, repetitive bass, increasingly dirty amplifier texture] [Final Chorus fuller guitars, still controlled] Mend it again Mend it again Bent and broken Back again Mend it again Mend it again Some things break But never end Fault by fault And thread by thread [Melodic guitar response] Hold together What is left Mend it... [Guitar] Mend it... Again. [Instrumental drums disappear, bass becomes a slow pulse] [Outro extremely close microphone] One more crack [Guitar response] One more scar One more fault [Guitar response] One more part [long pause] Still here [Two-note guitar] Still warm [long guitar decay] Still worth mending.
