[Intro] [DADGAD guitar alone] [low open D rings beneath slowly moving upper chord shapes] [long natural space] [bass enters with one deep sustained note] [no vocal] [Verse 1] [female vocal, close-mic, airy, reverent] [emotion barely held] Cold air... on my face. [long guitar response] I walked until the road grew quiet... [breath] Then I looked up... [Instrumental] [guitar climbs slowly through wider movable voicings] [open D continues beneath] [bass answers with sparse octave movement] [high harmonics begin to appear] [leave wide space] [Refrain] [female vocal soft, almost weightless] There you are... higher than I imagined. [long pause] And here I am... standing still. [Long Instrumental] [guitar carries the story] [maj9 and 6/9 shapes widen] [slow slides and open fourths] [bass remains deep and sparse] [no vocal] [Verse 2] [female vocal returns quietly] Snow on the far ridges... Clouds moving through the stone. [long instrumental breath] No road asking me onward... No reason to go. [Instrumental Peak] [upper guitar moves higher across the fretboard] [low open D remains steady beneath] [wide fifths, suspended voicings and natural harmonics bloom] [bass rises slowly by octave] [let the music reach the emotional peak] [no vocal] [Final Refrain] [female vocal enters beneath the guitar, fragile and reverent] There you are... beyond anything I could name. [breath] So I stayed... [long pause] beneath the sky. [Outro] [guitar falls back toward open DADGAD resonance] [bass holds one low note] [female vocal barely above a whisper] For a little while... [long guitar response] I forgot where I was going. [final open D6/9 rings] [let resonance decay naturally] [end]
