[Intro - ghostly reverse synth swell, gate ticking nearly shut, no kick yet] (falsetto, distant) 뭔가 오고 있어. (romanized: mwonga ogo isseo) (gloss: something is coming.) Been about a year now. I keep the count. [Verse 1 - minimalist, dry close falsetto, muffled kick enters on bar 5] There is something in the hallway every night, and I built the whole house so I'd be alright. It isn't the knocking that I couldn't take, it's the part of me that wanted it to break. I have got a system and the system works: nobody gets in and so nobody hurts. And it hasn't failed a single time, not one. Which is how I know exactly what it won. [Pre-Chorus - clipped, drums out, reverse swell rising] Every night it's closer. Every night I hold. I called that strength for years. It was only cold. [Chorus - wide and haunted, vocoder stacks, warm light at the edges] Don't come all the way. I couldn't hold all the way. 하나. (hana) One. Get to one and I'll open the door. Not zero — I can't survive zero — 하나, 하나, get to one and I won't close it any more. [Verse 2 - same restraint, gate open wider, sub bass fuller] You've been coming at a rate I understand, and I've counted every step. That wasn't planned. I ran the ratio. I know what it means. You don't stop. And that's the part I never seen. I spent a year proving nobody would stay, and you spent the same year walking anyway. So the proof is broken. So the system's done. I'm standing at the door, and I'm naming one. [Pre-Chorus - clipped, drums out] Every night it's closer. Every night I hold. I called that strength for years. It was only cold. [The Crossing - one point four seconds, hard cut both directions, nothing inside it] [Bridge - Korean, bare, gate wide, warm pad glowing under the ice] 과녁은 움직여도 돼. (romanized: gwanyeogeun umjigyeodo dwae) (gloss: a target is allowed to move.) Nobody ever told me that. I thought the whole job was holding still. (falsetto, bare) If I move too, it's half the time. [Final Chorus - wider, not louder, lead vocal dropping to a whisper] Don't come all the way. I couldn't hold all the way. 하나. (hana) One. (whispered) Get to one and I'll open the door. Not zero — I can't survive zero — 하나, 하나, get to one and I won't close it any more. [Outro - vocoder stack alone, no lead vocal, gate fully open, unresolved] 하나. 하나. 하나.
