[Intro][AtmosphericDrone][DistantHeartbeat][UltraCloseMic][FemaleContralto][NearlySpoken] I can feel it when it's coming... [LongPause] That hollow underneath. [Heartbeat] [Verse 1][SparseAfroHouse][WarmSubBass][CloseMic][Conversational][Restrained] I can feel it when it's coming, that hollow underneath. Every thought gets even louder, there's nowhere left to breathe. So I go looking for a doorway, for a rhythm, for a thread. Something with enough of a heartbeat to pull the noise out of my head. I don't know what I'm hunting. I just know when it is near. One note moving through the darkness— and suddenly I hear. [Pre-Chorus][PercussionBuild][MelodicVoice][ControlledLift] So I follow every frequency, every tremor, every hit. There's a part of me that's starving, and only sound gets into it. [BeatSuspends] Only sound gets into it. [Chorus][DeepAfroHouseGroove][RollingBass][LayeredPercussion][SoulfulVoice][ControlledPower] I hunt like my life depends on it, waiting for the next beat to come. For the sound that cracks me open, lets the buried language run. Every question I can't answer, every struggle I can't name, finds a pulse and finds a melody and doesn't hurt the same. [GroovePullback][CloseMic] I follow every signal till something finally hits. [DeepGroove] I hunt for the next beat like my life depends on it. [Post-Chorus][HypnoticPercussion][HeartbeatMotif] The next beat... The next beat... [Verse 2][SparseGroove][OrganicPercussion][CloseMic][Conversational] Some things won't come out talking. I've tried to make them speak. They hide themselves behind my ribs where words can never reach. But give me four bars in the darkness. Give me one unfinished line. Everything I couldn't tell you starts telling itself in time. That's why silence makes me restless. That's why stillness feels too wide. I'm not searching for another song— I'm searching for somewhere to hide all the weight I couldn't carry, all the things I couldn't fix. Till I find them in a rhythm and something finally clicks. [Pre-Chorus][PercussionBuild][MelodicVoice][ControlledLift] So I follow every frequency, every tremor, every hit. There's a part of me that's starving, and only sound gets into it. [BeatSuspends] Only sound gets into it. [Chorus][DeepAfroHouseGroove][RollingBass][LayeredPercussion][SoulfulVoice] I hunt like my life depends on it, waiting for the next beat to come. For the sound that cracks me open, lets the buried language run. Every question I can't answer, every struggle I can't name, finds a pulse and finds a melody and doesn't hurt the same. [GroovePullback][CloseMic] I follow every signal till something finally hits. [DeepGroove] I hunt for the next beat like my life depends on it. [Bridge][BeatDropout][AtmosphericDrone][UltraCloseMic][NearlySpoken] Maybe that's the hunger. [LongPause] Not to hear— to be heard. [Silence] Not by somebody else. By me. [SingleHeartbeat] Because sometimes I don't know what I'm feeling until I hear myself turn it into a song. [PercussionRebuild][MelodicVoice] So I chase the sound until it turns around and gives a voice to what had none. [AfroHouseInstrumental][HypnoticPolyrhythm][RollingBass][HeartbeatMotif] [FinalChorus][DeepAfroHouseGroove][FullPercussion][SoulfulVoice][EmotionalLift][NoBelting] I hunt like my life depends on it, now I know what I've been hunting for. Not another perfect melody— I need somewhere to pour every question I can't answer, every truth I couldn't face. Give the feeling rhythm, give the silence somewhere safe. [GroovePullback][CloseMic] I follow every signal till I hear myself in it. [DeepGroove][SoulfulVoice] I hunt for the next beat like my life depends on it. [Post-Chorus][HypnoticPercussion][LayeredVocal] The next beat... The next beat... Like my life depends on it. [Outro][PercussionDropsOut][UltraCloseMic] There. [SingleHeartbeat] That's it. [TotalSilence]
