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Spoken version
A recorded reading of “Under the Eye”. If the player does not load, use the original audio source.
I take the road the map forgot. Trunks stand guard—metronomes keeping the hush on time. Fog gathers, then parts: not horizon but an eye, rust-ringed, the forest wearing witness. No god; only daylight making a pupil. I am small arithmetic, walking towards my sum. Steps click like shutters. Trees align, combing to lashes. The gaze weighs my breath, my doubt, my pocketed name. At the pupil the world is a well. There’s no door but looking; I go on.
Alternative version
A road unzips the woods; trunks stand like looms. Mist lifts a curtain—there: an eye the size of weather, rim-rust, rain-bright, studying the stitch I make of myself. Its iris turns the horizon inward. The pupil—well-deep, bell-dumb—teaches without a word: each step makes me less, how small an I an eye can hold. I don’t run. I become a prayer, not prey, a hush kept between two breaths of bark. The path pulls taut, a filament of will, threading toward the needle of its gaze until I’m only motion, a seam in a face of fog. It doesn’t blink; the forest blinks for it. I keep walking, seen into being.
Instructional lyrics
[Intro 8b analog pad hall] [Tag 2b reverb tail] say my name [Verse 1 4/4 lofi drums clean gtr] the wall wears a strapped mirror cold glass keeps its little weather I stand where the dark stays quiet the mirror talks behind me a sheet picks out a body air sleeves lift to my elbows no face, no feet, a pale sail waiting for wind that never comes [Pre rise filter sweep] tell me what you see if the glass stays dumb cross out my old name leave what's left of me [Break 2b stop] [Chorus bigger double vox] say my name keep it the same hold this frame say my name [Verse 2 4/4 palm-mute gtr piano ostinato] fractures vein the circle like winter black wire stitches the silence shut thin lines write a bad signature the mirror can't read my name I touch the rim, the room holds breath somewhere that sheet learns my height outside, night pins to a nail it drapes the street the same [Pre rise sub swell] say it straight to me tell me what remains draw a line through doubt leave the name that stays [Break 2b stop] [Chorus bigger stacked chorus] say my name keep it the same hold this frame say my name [Bridge strip to vox+pad] I sign in wire, then wait I listen, I don't break [Chorus bigger stacked chorus x2] say my name keep it the same hold this frame say my name [Tag 2b reverb tail] say my name [Outro 4b hall diminuendo 4b]
Song info
Dark alt-pop ~98 BPM, minor; lofi drums, palm-mute gtr pulse, analog pad, piano ostinato; slap delay lead, plate BVs, light vinyl crackle; intimate verse -> belted chorus; structure: V1 -> Pre (rise) -> Break 2b stop -> Chorus -> V2 -> Pre -> Break 2b stop -> Chorus -> Bridge (strip to vox+pad) -> Final Chorus x2 -> Tag 2b -> Outro; sub swell into hooks, filter sweep lifts; call & response hints on hook; title hook uses -ame rhyme; close-mic vocal, breathy edges; soft tape wow, long reverb tail.
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