[Header: Condensed Audio Structure] [genre fusion | proto-jungle, drum and bass, sludge metal, post-metal, shoegaze] [energy | driving, athletic, volatile, cathartic] [performance mode | rubato] [meter | 4/4] [modal center | dorian] [tonic | D] [harmonic anchor | pedal tone] [form | cage monologue, duet confrontation, shared refrain, narrator closure] [Block: Core Sound] [instrumentation | breakbeat drum kit, electric bass, cathedral pipe organ, down-tuned guitar, shoegaze guitar layers] [drums | proto-jungle breakbeat, drum and bass velocity, ghost notes, snare rushes] [bass role | modal walking bass line, pedal support, chromatic approach] [organ | cathedral pipe organ, pedal tone, quartal clusters, long decay] [guitars | sludge chug, post-metal tremolo, shoegaze wash] [dynamics | strain, surge, collapse, release] [Block: Vocal Casting] [narrator | spoken, calm, intimate] [man | shouted, strained, defiant] [woman | soft, maternal, weary] [duet | unison, overloaded, cathartic] [Block: Arrangement] [intro | organ pedal tone, distant breakbeat, low bass] [verse bed | walking bass, clipped breakbeat, restrained guitar] [refrain bed | full breakbeat, sludge riff, organ swell] [collapse | rubato stretch, feedback bloom, pedal sustain] [outro | narrator foreground, room decay, final tonic] [narrator] "Everything hates to be caged... some creatures are just better at being confined" "Take a field mouse and put it into a cage - even a house mouse - they will destroy the cage or themselves..." "Take a domestic mouse and it preens and walks in circles..." "but everything hates being confined..." [man] NO NO NO I DON'T WANNA DON'T HOLD ME DOWN AND TELL ME AUGHTA I CAN'T HOLD THIS WEIGHT OF YOURS I WAS BORN SO HELL UNFOLDS [woman] hush my child, calm yourself you only had too much of health now you hurt from gas the most I'll pat your back so you dispel [woman] I.... can't... [man] YOU PRETEND THAT YOU CAN'T TELL THE OBJECTIONS OF MY SOUL I AM BEHELD WOMAN BY DEMONS [woman] That's nice dear... [woman] NO NO NO I DON'T WANNA DON'T HOLD ME DOWN AND TELL ME AUGHTA I CAN'T HOLD THIS WEIGHT OF YOURS I WAS BORN SO HELL UNFOLDS [man] no my mother, my everything don't cry so loud, don't spill within my strength it comes from you I think So help me grow from all of it [man and woman] NO NO NO I DON'T WANNA DON'T HOLD ME DOWN AND TELL ME AUGHTA I CAN'T HOLD THIS WEIGHT OF YOURS I WAS BORN SO HELL UNFOLDS [narrator] "And so the story goes."
