Credo

[Intro] [Instrumental: A single, heavily detuned and dissonant acoustic guitar string is struck and left to ring. The sound of tape hiss, a distant electrical hum.] [Verse 1 - Spoken, close-mic'd, gravelly voice] To live – with passion. To love – desperately. To know – greedily. [Instrumental] [Verse 2 - Voice gains a slight, tense rhythm] To write – without falsehood. To give – without remainder. To trust – without a doubt. [Instrumental] [Instrumental Break] [The dissonant guitar string is struck again, followed by the sound of a metal sheet being hit once, which reverberates and fades into the tape noise.] [Verse 3 - Voice becomes more resolved, almost chanting] To be a friend – without envy. To laugh – without malice. To leave – without looking back. [Long Pause] [Only tape hiss and room tone for 4-5 seconds.] [Outro - Voice is a dry, absolute whisper] And to die… to die – suddenly. [After the last word, the dissonant guitar note rings out one final time and is allowed to decay completely into the rising tape hiss and electrical noise, which then fades to total silence over 10 seconds.] [Spoken word] And to die… to die – suddenly. [end]