[INTRO — 10 seconds] [SUB-BASS BREATHING — slow] [BRUSH SNARE — soft, present] (whispered, close) Don't move yet [VERSE 1] (vocal with ghost of itself behind) The city doesn't know What happened in this room The city is just Being the city Which feels Almost rude [PIANO — plays the spaces between beats] The light is doing Something To the ceiling That requires Witnesses You are The only witness Available Which is The correct amount Of witnesses [HOOK] Afterglow Stay in the afterglow Don't name it yet Don't move yet Just Afterglow [VERSE 2] (warmer, less careful) I've been here before The early hour The changed air The sense that something Shifted In the architecture Of the ordinary But not Like this [SYNTH PAD — shifts color] [BEAT — fuller now] [PRE-CHORUS] [PIANO BUILDING] Some moments Know they're moments And have the decency To hold still For a second This one Is holding still [CHORUS — HALF-TIME DROP] [44 BPM — slow motion, deliberate] [EVERYTHING HEAVY AND GOLDEN] Afterglow The whole room Afterglow Don't name it Don't rush it Don't do anything That moves you Forward Just Afterglow Just This [BREAKDOWN — 5 SECONDS SILENCE] [BEAT STOPS COMPLETELY] [5 SECONDS — nothing] (deadpan, into the silence) My phone buzzed (pause) I ignored it Obviously (beat returns — full tempo, warmer) [BRIDGE] [VOCAL GHOST BECOMES HARMONY] I don't need it To last forever I need it To last Exactly As long As it lasts Which is all Any moment Can offer And all Any moment Needs to [FINAL CHORUS — A major, strings from nothing to everything] [SUNRISE ARRIVES IN THE KEY CHANGE] [STRINGS BUILD UNDERNEATH] Afterglow Stay in the afterglow The whole room Knows The whole room Knows What this is What this Could be Afterglow Don't name it yet (raw, over everything) Just stay Just stay Just Stay [OUTRO] [STRINGS FADE] [BEAT FADES] [SUB-BASS — one breath] [PIANO — one key — long decay] (whispered) Don't move yet (piano decays) (silence)
