[Intro] [Bass as percussion] [A single long pause of TV static the warps, waveform lengthening till it becomes a distorted heartbeat pulse that slows than goes still] I feel a creeping numbness A moment in the stillness of time I can not move my eyes My eyes fall, and cannot lift as my vision dies [Sparse fingerpicked acoustic guitar in Am, low cello drone under, quiet room tone, subtle vinyl crackle] [Then djent build, Djent and acoustic lock hard then immediately thin, equal low level, no lift ] [Verse 1] [Illbient tape-hiss texture and slow sub-bass swell, dry guitar continues, light djent chug accents on the downbeat only] [Am] The nail head on the floorboard catches light And keeps the light exactly where it was I watch it from a place that has no edge And can not feel the watching as the cause [Dm] [Djent low guitar enters with tight palm-mute pattern, illbient noise floor rises slightly] My tongue stayed pressed against the lower teeth A half-made sound that never found the air The questions waited where the tongue had been And had no further place to wait from there [Chorus] [Am] [Fuller djent palm-muted rhythm under, illbient drone sustains, acoustic guitar still dry and equal] (Do you fear the reaper) (Do you fear the reaper) Do you fear the reaper in the unmoved light (Do you fear the reaper) The nail that holds and does not lose the sight [G] [Djent drops to single low notes, illbient filters open then close] He does not arrive he is the light that stays While everything that moved has gone away [Verse 2] [Am] I tried to shift the tongue and clear the sound The teeth already held what they would hold It thinned the way a pressure thins itself When nothing answers what the pressure told [F] Is the dark the place the nail still lights Or only what is left when light is done I could not ask it with the tongue I had The tongue was finished with the asking one [Chorus] [Am] [Djent palm-mutes denser, illbient sub-drone heavier] (Do you fear the reaper) Do you fear the reaper when the tongue stays set (Do you fear the reaper) And nothing clears the word you never met [G] [Djent and illbient both pull back to near-silence] No further motion keeps the light in place The watching ends and does not leave a face [pre-Bridge illbient bleeds into Solo] [Bridge] [Dm] [Djent palm-mute full and tight, illbient drone at equal level, everything flat] There is the nail and there is where I was The light between them does not change or close I meet the same unmoving point again And never learn if anything arose [Am] The nail head keeps the light it always kept The tongue stays set against the lower teeth What waited where the sound should be is blank And nothing in the blank is underneath [Breakdown Solo] [Djent riff locks with the acoustic, low-end chugs on the downbeats, atmospheric pad barely under] [Final Chorus] [Am] (Do you fear the reaper) Do you fear the reaper nearer than the nail (Do you fear the reaper) The light you keep is thinner than the pale [G] [All elements cut to dry guitar and flat cello only] You hear the line and think the light will shift It ends inside the tongue that will not lift [Breathing slowing over a few seconds] [Outro] All my motion has in this stillness sowed A fear of ending I could not have known In my dying mind I look above I see those eyes, full of something else far from love And I fear the Reaper And I- I am done [Am] [Guitar stops mid-phrase, cello note holds flat one beat then cuts, absolute silence]
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