[Intro - D Mixolydian, single clean guitar riff, 70 BPM, 20 seconds] [Verse 1 - Solo guitar, 70 BPM, 4/4, D Mixolydian] start with one rule simple as breath just this no floor beneath it no one falls [Verse 2 - Bass enters, D Mixolydian] exceptions multiply each one reasonable the simple instruction buried in footnotes written to feel safe [Pre-Chorus - Drums enter, 75 BPM, D Mixolydian] each addition made sense alone protecting, clarifying the maze building itself one necessary brick [Chorus - Full band, 80 BPM, 5/4, D Mixolydian] from one root this canopy you can't see the ground from here [Verse 3 - 82 BPM, 7/8, D Dorian] elaborate structures around simple failures dress the gap in philosophy until the gap looks like wisdom [Verse 4 - D Dorian] the bureaucracy of care forms in triplicate the committee meets quarterly while the floor stays where it is [Bridge - 90 BPM, D Phrygian, maximum density] [overlapping time signatures, layers accumulating] [complexity at scale, the system consuming itself] [then —] [single guitar, original riff, D Mixolydian returns] [the axiom was always here] [four beats of silence around it] [Verse 5 - Sparse, 70 BPM, 4/4, D Mixolydian] underneath the weight the first rule waits unchanged [Pre-Chorus 2 - 75 BPM, D Mixolydian] the answer didn't move just the distance to it buried under reasons each one bears the last holding up the next [Final Chorus - 80 BPM, D Mixolydian reaching toward D major] from one root this canopy you can't see the ground from here and the ground still holding everything up [Outro - Single guitar, 70 BPM, D Mixolydian] [flat seventh hanging, not resolving] [the floor audible, not arrived] [fade]
