[Intro] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Whispered, close-mic, sparse room air, breath fx, ghostly] (soft breath) She fades at the edge of the dream (soft breath) [Verse 1] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Whispered close-mic, intimate, narrowed, sorrowful] The floor dissolves beneath my knees I reach for a shape that is gone Salt on the tongue of old longing Her outline slips through the glass Can the silence hold her weight Or does she only sink deeper [Chorus] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Layered stacked vocals, harmonized, submerged widening, catchy, desperate] If I lose my legs Can I still run away Can I still chase her Through the water’s gravity If I lose my legs Can I still find her [Verse 2] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Spoken soft, close, breath between phrases, frustrated] Current lifts what feet once owned I drift where her voice used to be Her name ripples under my ribs No stride left to close the distance Only the pull of a memory And the hush that answers nothing [Chorus] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Layered stacked vocals, harmonized, deeper submerged, low-pass, despairing] If I lose my legs Can I still run away Can I still chase her Through the water’s gravity If I lose my legs Can I still find her [Verse 3] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Whispered to natural full return, subtle ear-panning, ghostly] Ghost cadence taps against the hull Rhodes notes fall like dying light I reach with hands that still remember The shape of her turning away Can motion live without the ground Or only echo in the deep [Bridge] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Spoken then whispered, mono collapse, silence pockets, near-death longing] (spoken) What if the chase was never legs (whispered) What if she was already gone The floating toward a fading shore Her outline still the only light Unresolved, unresolved [Verse 4] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Harmonized stacks, hazy, granular water textures, sorrowful] I taste the metal of old stair rails Dissolved into this slower blue Every missing step becomes a note Cold and bright against the bass If the body leaves its map behind Does the wanting stay or drown [Chorus] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Layered stacked vocals, reverse vocal textures, stereo jumps, full return then submerge, frustrated] If I lose my legs Can I still run away Can I still chase her Through the water’s gravity If I lose my legs Can I still find her [Verse 5] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Intimate whisper, vast negative space, descending harmonics, despair] The last current knows her name Even when my legs do not I am the distance and the pull A hull without a need to land Can I still run away from here Or only deeper into her [Outro] [Chords: Dm9 – Gm11 – Bbmaj9 – Am7] [Sparse, unresolved Rhodes, breath fx, low-pass fade, silence, ghostly] (soft breath) If I lose my legs (soft breath) Can I still chase her (long silence) (soft breath)
