
[TECH TASK: DARK LULLABY, FEMALE VOCAL, SLOW TEMPO 60-65 BPM, INSTRUMENTAL: HAUNTING PIANO + SOFT STRINGS + LOW AMBIENT, TIMING < 4 MIN, INCLUDE INSTRUMENTAL INTRO, BREAKS, OUTRO, VOCAL PAUSES AND VOCALIZES, KEEP MYSTERIOUS/MACABRE ATMOSPHERE] [INSTRUMENTAL INTRO 0:00-0:20] [soft haunting piano, low strings, distant bell echoes] [VERSE 1] You have N days, give or take just one, to build a home… [pause] To plant your trees, to raise your sons and daughter on the eve of blight… [soft hum “mmm…”] To circle all the earth at least a single time… [pause] And then you’ll die precisely on the N plus-minus second night… [hold note] [CHORUS] Lulled by a song so weary… [pause] Tell the angels through… [soft “shh…”] Whisper of the secrets dreary… [pause] Hush, hush—Woo… [hold final] [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK 0:50-1:05] [piano motif, low strings swell, ambient echoes] [VERSE 2] They will lay to earth your useless, broken clay… [pause] Your sons will go to ruin, left with empty hands… [soft hum “ahh…”] And you alone in clouds will weep on Thursday’s gray… [pause] While your daughter turns a spiteful crone, who scolds and brands… [hold note] [CHORUS] Lulled by a song so weary… [pause] Tell the angels through… [soft “shh…”] Whisper of the secrets dreary… [pause] Hush, hush—Woo… [hold final] [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK 1:45-2:00] [piano/strings, subtle dissonance, echoing] [VERSE 3] Then will come the war—no century escapes its wars… [pause] Sons will perish, and your daughter lose her mind… [soft hum “mmm…”] She will call your ghost—don’t prowl, don’t scratch the doors… [pause] For the living hate the otherworldly kind… [hold note] [VERSE 4] Sleep, my little one, in your innocent dream… [pause] Living souls but rarely dream of those who’re gone… [soft hum “ahh…”] Will you plant a garden, or will you build a home… [pause] You have N days left to find the answer on your own… [hold note] [CHORUS - FINAL] Lulled by a song so weary… [pause] Tell the angels through… [soft “shh…”] Whisper of the secrets dreary… [pause] Hush, hush—Woo… [hold final, fade] [INSTRUMENTAL OUTRO 3:20-3:50] [piano + low strings fading into ambient echoes, last bell chime]

