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[INTRO] (vinyl crackle loop, single delayed guitar note repeating, no drums) (sparse, atmospheric, let it breathe for 8 bars) [VERSE 1] cracked glass horizon, the years blur past static in my throat, moving too fast the sky folds over like film left in the sun I don't remember who I was (raspy low vocal, dry close drums enter, half-spoken, unhurried) [CHORUS] I am somewhere I have never been the light is wrong, the air is thin everything is beautiful and ruined everything is over and beginning (shift to high cracked falsetto, wall of fuzz guitars crash in, sample loop returns chopped and pitched, drums open up fully) [VERSE 2] every city looks the same from moving trains the future smells like concrete and rain the voices I once knew begin to fade the road is long and cold and clear (back to raspy driving vocal, angular guitar riff enters alongside ambient swim layer, bass heavier now) [CHORUS] I am somewhere I have never been the light is wrong, the air is thin everything is beautiful and ruined everything is over and beginning (high falsetto again, louder than first chorus, sample stuttering in rhythm with kick drum) [BRIDGE] no one left to call, no one left to find just the hum of forward motion I would go back but I don't know how and I'm not sure I want to now (strip to just bitcrushed sample loop and bare falsetto, almost whispering, single reverb guitar, rebuild slowly through last two lines) [OUTRO] further, the edges go soft the world I knew is burning off (vocals dissolve into reverb tail, drums drop, guitars sustain only, vinyl crackle loop returns unprocessed, fade to static over 16 bars