[Key: D Dorian / Mode: Dorian / Chord Progression: Dream Dm9 - G13, Collapse Bbmaj7 - Abmaj7, Waking Dm / BPM: 78, loose swung half-time groove / Style: Psychedelic trip-hop, downtempo dub, liquid groove / Vocal Identity: Single breathy female alto, close, intimate, unhurried, one lead voice only, delayed backing echoes repeating the last words] [Warm Drifting Verse 1, 8 bars, D Dorian, Breathy Female Alto Close-Mic, Gliding Dub Sub-Bass, Broken-Beat Groove, Warm Rhodes, Wet Tape Delay] I knew I was dreaming because my hands got it right the first time And the room had no walls Just light With a canvas as tall as the sky So I told myself Stay here / don't wake up I'll paint it all the way through And I kept saying remember this / remember this (remember this...) [Lifting Pleading Refrain 1, 8 bars, D Dorian, Female Alto Sung Warmer, Sparse Backing Echoes Repeating Last Words, Reversed Swells, Sub-Bass Gliding] Remember this / remember this You are going to want it in the morning (remember this) (remember this) Hold on to it The way you hold your breath Don't let it get away from you (hold on) (hold on to it) [Absorbed Glowing Verse 2, 8 bars, D Dorian, Female Alto Close and Steady, Full Wet Groove, Rhodes Rising, Echoes Fainter] Every color I reached for was already on the brush Like it knew where I was going before I did And I stood back to look And I almost had the word for it And that's when the edges Started to come apart [Urgent Pleading Refrain 2, 8 bars, D Dorian, Female Alto Sung Tighter, Backing Echoes Multiplying, Delay Feedback Building] Remember this / remember this You are going to want it in the morning (remember this) (remember this) (remember this) Hold on to it The way you hold your breath Don't let it get away from you (hold on) (hold on) (hold on to it) [Melting Collapsing Section, 8 bars, D Dorian Sliding To Bbmaj7 and Abmaj7, Female Alto Sung Faster, Sub-Bass Sliding Down, Filters Closing, Echoes Outnumber The Lead] The harder I held it / the faster it ran Like water through my fingers Like water in my fist (it ran) (it ran) And the colors went out of it... One at a time... I counted them / and I lost count (lost count) (lost count) And the brush was only a stick in my hand And the canvas was only a door (a door) And someone / somewhere / was ringing a bell I had never agreed to (remember) (remember this) (remember) [Dry Stripped Waking Passage, 8 bars, D Dorian, Female Alto Thin and Close, No Delay, No Echoes, Plain Rhodes Only] And then it's the ceiling And the light through the blinds And my own breathing And all I have is that it was stunning That it was the best thing... I have ever made [Flat Restless Verse 3, 8 bars, D Dorian, Female Alto Dry and Tired, Sparse Broken-Beat Groove, One Faint Echo Returns] So I stretched a new canvas I mixed the colors And I thought I remembered Every one was close / and every one was dead / like a photograph of a fire My friends all said they were lovely / and I wanted to burn the lot Because I'd know it / I'd know it anywhere / and that was never it (never it...) [Tightening Spiraling Bridge, 8 bars, D Dorian, Female Alto Close and Faster, Groove Tightening, Echoes Returning, Delay Throws On The Rim] So I started going to bed at noon / and then at ten / and then whenever But the harder I tried to dream it / the less I slept And the less I slept / the worse I painted And I lay there at four in the morning Searching for a color I couldn't name (four in the morning) And I told myself tonight... Tonight / I'll remember (tonight) (tonight) [Warm Returning Dream Loop, 8 bars, D Dorian, Female Alto Soft and Wet, Full Wet Groove Returns, Echoes Repeating Remember] I knew I was dreaming because my hands got it right the first time And the room had no walls Just light With a canvas as tall as the sky Remember this / remember this You are going to want it in the morning (remember this...) (remember this...) [Fading Dream Outro, 2 bars, D Dorian, Vocal Fade, Backing Echoes Only] (remember this...) [Solo Instrumental Outro, 4 bars, Decrescendo] [Smooth slow fade, clean outro note]
