(Style: Genre: dark ambient indie / dream pop
BPM: 70
Key: D minor
Intro
ambient drone, room noise, single synth note, whisper vocal, emotionless
Verse 1
minimal kick + soft bass
lyrics = objects/routines/room details
detached vocal
Refrain
add distant harmony + more reverb
Verse 2
heartbeat kick, warmer synths, subtle guitar
lyrics become more personal accidentally
more breath in vocal
Bridge
big ambient swell, choir texture, distorted atmosphere
observer emotionally breaking
lyrics about staying too long / inability to leave
widest mix, emotional overload but still restrained
Outro
remove drums
just room tone + breathing + fading synth
hard cutoff mid-sentence
Keywords:
haunted apartment, observation log, emotional contamination, lonely night rain, soft male vocal, slow emotional collapse)
Gold washing rain
Music box turning much too slow
I still spin circles in the dark
Long after the carnival closed
Cotton clouds above the tents
Ferris wheel rusting toward the moon
Paper tickets sinking in puddles
And the lights still flicker on
One by one
One by one
Children’s laughter trapped in mirrors
Tiny fingerprints on glass
Stuffed bears sleeping in the windows
Watching every season pass
The wind pulls ribbons through my hair
Dust gathering inside my chest
Lonely prizes rotting away
I thought the night would end
I thought somebody would return
But spiders weave between the horses
And summer never seems to turn
Still the organ plays low
Still the horses bow slow
Moonlight dripping off the metal poles
Blue fog wrapped around the rides
I keep spinning for the empty air
Like motion alone can keep me alive
Always spinning
Never stop
And if you hear the music now
Floating faintly through the trees
Do not follow all the lights
Some old things still refuse to leave
BLACKLARK
