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[Intro — sparse and wintry: a few isolated soft tones with long silence between, cold and still, like the first day of winter] [Verse 1 — hushed, receiving: the voice small and steady, accepting what is hard to look at — space between every phrase] 顔を背けたくなる時 受け止める こころ ふゆがしら [Verse 2 — a bitter taste welcomed: the voice hesitant but opening, warmth entering slowly] 躊躇いながら包み込む 口の中に広がる苦い味 ようこそ [Rise — the heart flaring: fuller and warmer, ascending gently, the only bright swelling moment — then it questions itself] 燃え輝くこころ 高く舞い上がり 積み上がる そこには要らないかもしれない [あい — a single suspended moment: near silence, one soft sustained tone, the word left alone and unformed] あい [Verse 3 — quiet resolve, like polishing: calm, even, reflective] 磨くなら かがみのように 受け止める さしのべられる手と こころ ふゆがしら [Verse 4 — holding what cannot return: tender and sorrowful, the voice cradling, warmth against cold] かえらない卵達 腕いっぱいに抱え 抱きしめる ただ見つめ その胸に抱き寄せる 冷たい鏡のこころ [Break — the mirror is struck: the sound does NOT swell — instead everything cuts away abruptly, voice nearly alone, thin and strained — the violence is in the sudden emptiness, not in loudness] 見たくない 耐えられないと 湖面を穿つ [Silence — near-total stillness, one faint tone hanging, long — the water settling] 静けさのあと [Verse 5 — the mirror restored: as quiet as the very beginning, sparse and still, NO drums, NO intensity — calm reflection only] ただ見つめ その胸に抱き寄せる 鏡のこころ [Final — walking, slowly: the gentlest forward pulse, barely there, unsteady small steps — quiet, NOT powerful, NOT building] 戸惑いながら たどたどしい足どりで 歩いていくよ [Outro — the opening stillness returns, all the pieces settled, fading into winter quiet — no drums, no swell, dissolving] 受け止める さしのべられる手と こころ ふゆがしら