[Intro] [66 BPM. Bass plays a slow five-note figure that resolves one beat later than expected. Drums enter sparsely around it without straightening the phrase. Two guitars bloom from near silence: one low, dense and sustained, the other tracing thin dissonant harmonics. Low vocal appears from inside the guitar field, restrained and melodic.] Something moved across the sleep of everyone at once A color with no name stayed behind By morning we could hum it None of us had heard it [Verse] [Keep the five-note bass cycle independent of the vocal phrasing. Drums establish weight without a square backbeat. Let long vocal sentences cross bar lines. The high guitar answers only selected words.] Then came the taste of a language extinct before the tongue Names arrived already remembered and every name belonged to someone who had never been alive [Pre-Chorus] [Pull the drums away gradually. Bass climbs instead of repeating. Guitars hold conflicting intervals until their beating overtones become audible.] All night something impossible keeps getting easier to remember [Chorus] [Drums return with a heavy asymmetrical pulse. Bass becomes melodic beneath huge unresolved guitar layers. Keep the vocal recessed but give the melody a clear rising shape. Do not brighten the harmony.] The dead have started dreaming and something in us dreams along We wake knowing less but knowing it together The dead have started dreaming Listen we already know the song [Instrumental] [Do not increase tempo. Extend the chorus harmony while the bass pushes into unfamiliar notes. High guitar takes the vocal hook and changes one interval each repetition.] [Verse] [Return to restraint without returning completely to the opening harmony. Vocal melody stays recognizable but phrases lengthen unpredictably.] Children started drawing the same black sun with too many rays People who had never met began forgetting the same word Then the birds went silent halfway through their calls as if something sleeping had turned its attention toward them [Pre-Chorus] [The opening bass figure returns inverted. Drums answer in uneven phrases. Noise guitar sustains across the tonal change.] No one remembers when it began Only that yesterday there were fewer of us inside the dream [Chorus] [Shift the tonal center down while retaining the chorus melody against it. Let familiar notes become increasingly wrong. Full noisegaze density, never metal.] The dead have started dreaming and something in us dreams along We wake knowing less but knowing it together The dead have started dreaming Listen we already know the song [Bridge] [Drop to bass, low guitar resonance and vocal. Abandon the established harmonic center. Introduce a slow progression that feels recognizable without ever resolving. Vocal becomes more intimate, not louder.] Tonight I remembered dying It wasn’t mine Then another then thousands not faces not names just the exact instant each of them understood they were still there [Climax] [Drums enter gradually beneath the bridge rather than with a hit. Bass begins a new ascending figure. Both guitars expand into enormous overlapping noise while the high guitar preserves the chorus melody in distorted form. Keep 66 BPM. Vocal sinks farther into the mix as the band becomes more alive.] Now nobody wants to sleep but it happens while we’re awake A second thought beneath the first A voice without a sound Something ancient learning how many mouths it has [Final Chorus] [Keep the altered tonal center. Chorus melody remains intact while the harmony beneath it becomes increasingly incompatible. Drums and bass play with force and human looseness. No screams.] The dead have started dreaming and something in us dreams along We wake knowing less but knowing it together The dead have started dreaming Listen we already know [Outro] [Cut the drums before the expected resolution. Bass continues the five-note opening figure alone, now ending on a different pitch. High guitar sustains the missing final note of the chorus melody. Vocal nearly disappears beneath feedback.] Don’t wake them we disappear
