[Intro] (piano ostinato, suspended, rubato) [Verse 1] The same suspended chord since October Something in the interval never landed A melody that almost arrives and turns away at the last moment The glockenspiel remembers what the piano forgot to say again [Pre-Chorus] almost arriving— almost— [Chorus] Suspended in the resolution Suspended in the return Something almost touched the tonic Something almost came home [Verse 2] The fretless line slides past the note it meant to find and keeps going Bittersweet is just the word for almost beautiful almost true The harmony drifts a semitone away from where it started and rests there [Pre-Chorus] almost arriving— almost— [Chorus] Suspended in the resolution Suspended in the return Something almost touched the tonic Something almost came home [Bridge] (piano only — rubato — the phrase slows) (breathy, barely above the piano) I kept the interval between what was asked and what arrived The space between two notes that almost agreed [Final Chorus] (slower — the resolution finally comes — then withdraws) Suspended now resolving Suspended now returning Something almost reached the tonic Something almost [Outro] (piano alone — the phrase completes — once — then silence) almost... home...
