Roma - Venice All Messy and Terrible 🌊🚦🌉

[Intro — dark electric guitar single notes, deep reverb, slow heartbeat bass pulse, no vocal, 8 bars, 58 BPM] [Prologue — female vocal only, close-miked contralto, almost spoken, intimate and reflective, sparse electric guitar underneath, unhurried] Venice came to me in winter A yellow Venetian sunrise shined down on me I walked alone with a melody inside me And I knew I could go on I made a promise to myself I'll return to that bridge of love, here I am [Verse 1 — female vocal only, contralto, breathy and deliberate, electric undercurrent rises slightly, heartbeat bass steady underneath] My fingers tingle with a remembrance of nerve I put one foot in front of the other like I always have And the crosswalk comes back to me I breathe the air around me deeply His eyes see into and through me That grin — he remembers Our hands read each other And reach [Chorus — female vocal only, contralto, voice rises gently never above mid-register, electric undercurrent deepens, bass pulse swells barely audible, reverb washes everything in dark warmth] Our souls breathing each other's air Like two particles coming back around Like love does Slow and longing and knowing Entwined [Break — female vocal only, contralto, everything strips back, just voice and heartbeat bass, most exposed moment of the song, almost spoken, deliberate and still] How can I know everything and nothing at all And still long for you I open my eyes to pink and orange and yellow The bridge is full of lovers watching the same sunset Were you ever really there or elsewhere That day on the Roma crosswalk I wish I had stayed in the rain All messy and terrible [Chorus — female vocal only, contralto, fuller than the first, electric undercurrent returns warm and steady, voice carries more weight, every word deliberate] Our souls breathing each other's air Like two particles coming back around Like love does Slow and longing and knowing Entwined [Outro — female vocal only, contralto, instruments fall away one by one, just voice and barely audible heartbeat bass, each word more distant, already dissolving] I am here on this bridge Still waiting for what will be All messy and terrible Play that melody [voice dissolves into reverb — electric guitar single note — then silence]