[INTRO – INSTRUMENTAL] [Hammond B3 alone at first] [Low sustained Leslie tone slowly bends and searches] [Short uneasy Hammond phrase repeats, slightly changing each time] [Deep bass enters underneath] [Motorik drums lock in one layer at a time] [No vocal sounds] [VERSE 1 – close low female vocal] [Motorik pulse steady and hypnotic] [Hammond answers between vocal lines, never becoming a pad] I have danced at Stonehenge since before your oldest stone When the sun stood still at midsummer and the veil came down like snow I have kissed a thousand dreamers in the blue between the worlds But tonight I come to take you where the cold dark river curls [PRE-CHORUS – bass pushes harder] [Hammond phrases become shorter and more restless] [No volume lift] Don’t blame me for what I carry Don’t blame me for what I owe Seven years I bought my freedom With a soul I had to go [CHORUS – wider through groove and Hammond movement, never louder] [Motorik remains straight] [Hammond opens into moving Leslie chords] [Short distorted guitar replies] At midsummer the veil grows thin And something beautiful walks in With flowers in her ancient hair And sorrow hiding under there She’ll take your hand she’ll take you far Past the standing stones and the morning star Pretty as a promise Dark as what must be The tithe is due And you were chosen Come with me [INSTRUMENTAL] [Motorik bass and drums continue] [Hammond takes a short restless lead] [Guitar answers once, then disappears] [VERSE 2 – intimate, colder] [Groove never stops] [Hammond increasingly active between phrases] I was taken long before you by one who looked like spring Who danced me through the moonlight and I never felt a thing Till Halloween came calling and I understood the cost That the most beautiful of prisons Is the one where you feel lost [PRE-CHORUS – subdivision tightens] [Hammond pushes against the pulse] Don’t curse me for what I carry Don’t curse me for what I owe Seven years I bought my freedom With a soul I had to go [CHORUS – deeper, more insistent] [Rolling bass and Hammond dominate] [No anthem, no dramatic swell] At midsummer the veil grows thin And something beautiful walks in With flowers in her ancient hair And sorrow hiding under there She’ll take your hand she’ll take you far Past the standing stones and the morning star Pretty as a promise Dark as what must be The tithe is due And you were chosen Come with me [BRIDGE – spoken, very close] [Motorik reduces to bass pulse and muted kick] [Hammond holds one unstable Leslie tone] I did not choose this. I was chosen once. Now I choose you. Forgive me. The stones remember everything. And they say nothing. [ONE-BAR PAUSE] [Hammond phrase returns] [Bass catches it] [Full motorik groove locks back in] [FINAL CHORUS – strongest groove, not strongest volume] [Hammond restless and fully alive] [Guitar flickers at the edges] At midsummer the veil grows thin And something beautiful walks in With flowers in her ancient hair And sorrow underneath She’ll take your hand She’ll take you far Past the standing stones Past the morning star Pretty as a promise Dark as what must be The tithe is due And you were chosen Come with me. [OUTRO – motorik continues under the voice] [Hammond repeats the opening phrase, now distorted and unresolved] Come with me… The stones remember… Come with me… Forgive me… [Hammond ends alone] [No vocalizing]
