[Title: Shoulder Weather] [Intro | warm analog bass swell, lo-fi Rhodes loop, soft kick settling in, room ambience] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Verse 1] [Soft] The DJ drops to half-time and the room exhales I've been watching you negotiate the dark You move like someone who already knows the ending but you're letting the middle do its work There's a shoulder's worth of space between us now warm air, no question, just the fact of it [Instrumental Break | Rhodes chord hangs, glitch stutter, bass breathes] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Verse 2] The bass sits low beneath the conversation pressing up through both our shoes the same You said something that I felt before I heard it the room too loud for words to carry weight Proximity's its own kind of language a grammar made of inches and degrees You shifted half a turn — that was fluent I've been learning that dialect for weeks [Chorus] [Breathy] We're not dancing, we're just standing close let the song decide You smell like somewhere I already know and haven't been inside [Instrumental Break | bass drops out, Rhodes shimmer, glitch stutter doubles, soft kick holds] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Verse 3] [Soft] The ice in my glass has almost given up you're watching it the way I'm watching you there's something almost tender about waiting when neither of us has anything to prove The glitch cuts in — a half-beat stutter like the track itself forgot what it was saying we've been running on that same delay [Chorus] [Breathy] We're not dancing, we're just standing close let the song decide You smell like somewhere I already know and haven't been inside [Bridge] [Whispered] It's not the wanting that does it's the moment just before you know it's mutual when you're still carrying it alone that's the one I'd bottle that particular suspension just the two of us deciding whether warmth means come home [Chorus] [Falsetto] We're not dancing, we're just standing close let the song decide You smell like somewhere I already know and haven't been inside [Outro | Rhodes fades to single note loop, bass dissolves, room tone, glitch stutter slows to silence] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Fade Out]
