[Intro — delicate high-register clean electric guitar motif, sparse piano notes, no drums, faint room ambience] [Verse 1 — close-mic breath-soft female vocal, clean guitar continues, piano very sparse] A chest full of false alarms sleep cut into quarters teeth marks along my tongue morning with its hands up [Melodic bass enters quietly] The danger grew old the body did not a bottle hits the pavement every nerve stands up [Chorus — restrained live drums enter, soft kick and dry snare, second clean guitar adds wide sustained notes] Stay where you are let the moment spend itself keep your voice low don't ask me anything else Stay where you are till the edges lose their teeth I'll come back slowly when the noise lets go of me [Short instrumental — main guitar motif, bass moves underneath, piano answers with single notes] [Verse 2 — drums pull back, intimate vocal, melodic bass remains] Names written on exits cars turning too slowly a laugh on the wrong side of me the back of my neck knows first [Second guitar adds faint atmospheric harmonics] Everybody says I'm lucky everybody loves that word I keep it where they left it right beside the bruise [Chorus — fuller bass movement, dry live drums, vocal slightly stronger but still restrained] Stay where you are let the moment spend itself keep your voice low don't ask me anything else Stay where you are till the edges lose their teeth I'll come back slowly when the noise lets go of me [Instrumental lift — clean guitar motif repeats higher, bass becomes more active, piano chords widen, subtle low distorted guitar begins underneath] [Bridge — drums reduced to kick and tom pulse, vocal exposed] Clear sky good news nothing wrong today [Brief pause] My hands missed the message every exit lit up anyway [Final Chorus — full live drums, stronger melodic bass, clean motif remains, selective sustained distortion underneath, light vocal doubles on key lines] Stay where you are let the moment spend itself keep your voice low don't ask me anything else Stay where you are the worst of it will leave I'll come back slowly when the noise releases me [Distorted guitar swells, then falls away] Stay where you are [End — drums and bass stop, clean high guitar motif alone, one final soft piano note]
