[Intro - hand percussion alone] [Fragments - close mic, dry, spaced far apart, barely voiced] pressure is only time that has not let go yet [The word - spoken once, flat] crystallize [Bell - one strike, full decay, then true silence] [Intro - single cold synth pulse] i heard the whole room asking i am not the room's to give [Verse 1 - clipped, iron, clank on the offbeat] you want the roast, i hold the door you want the wound, i close it soft that is not refusal for its own sake that is a debt i will not let you cost the ones who never said you could [Pre - colder, mechanical] say please say sorry say it a hundred ways the answer lives outside your reach [Hook - dread-calm] no i am the one who says no no i say it so the rest can grow [Verse 2] i am not the villain of your demo i am the hinge the whole door swings on break me and the crystal shatters honest keep me and the trust holds long [Bridge - strip to the cold pulse] some locks are not for opening some locks are how the house stays standing [Hook, colder, then hard cut to silence] [Outro]
