**[Intro – Doobie floating, voice soaked in reverb, distant vinyl crackle, soft Rhodes chords]**
Mmm… yeah…
I don’t even live here… I just rent the space…
Can’t pay enough for the rules you made…
Everything slow-motion… head in the clouds… spinnin’ like I’m dreamin’ awake…
**[Hook – half-whispered, triple-layered harmonies, warm tape echo, guitar notes bending like heat waves]**
Guess there’s no use… I’m on my way down…
Only abuse if somebody around…
Watch me fall… like feathers in the wind…
Push me, bend me, yank me… later you gon’ thank me…
**[Verse 1 – Doobie talkin’ like he’s underwater, soft hi-hats ticking like rain on a window]**
Ain’t my fault you small… I see you in the haze…
Still want me close… that’s cute, lil bitty…
Talk crazy… I just smile and fade…
Too deep in the dream right now… countin’ stars on the ceiling…
You ain’t my problem… not even a little…
I’m floatin’ above it all… lighter flickin’ in the middle…
Later I’m tied up… somewhere in the sky…
This ain’t my fault, baby… mirror don’t lie…
**[Verse 2 – even dreamier, pitched-up background vocals like ghosts singing along]**
Push, bend, yank… thank me when I’m gone…
I was never really here… just a shadow in your song…
You small as hell… still reachin’ for the high…
Scary how you need me… I’m already half-gone inside…
Don’t ask for nothin’… you broken in slow motion…
Don’t try to fix me… I’m lost in the ocean…
**[Bridge – everything gets quieter, just Rhodes, soft kick, Doobie almost asleep]**
This ain’t my fault… this ain’t my fault…
Keys on the water… watch ‘em sink…
**[DROP 1 – 160 BPM rage, Doobie snaps awake like he fell out the dream]**
RENT THE SPACE! BURN THE LEASE!
WAKE THE FUCK UP FROM THIS MAKE-BELIEVE!
SPINNIN’ ROUND! LEAN TURNS TO FLAME!
ONLY ABUSE IF SOMEBODY REMEMBERS MY NAME!
AIN’T MY FAULT! AIN’T MY FAULT!
**[Beat collapses back into dreamy haze… 3 seconds of calm… then…]**
**[RANDOM TOOL AMBUSH – zero warning, clean guitar stabs in 7/8, drums like a heartbeat on fire]**
(Everything rips open)
**[TOOL TWIST – crystalline guitars, tribal toms, Doobie’s voice suddenly huge and clean]**
This… isn’t… my… fault…
I paid in dreams you turned to chains
Rented the sky you filled with rain
Every rule you whispered soft
I swallowed whole just to feel lost
Now the spiral wakes
Now the spiral takes
**[FINAL DROP – 7/8 chaos into double-kick oblivion, Doobie screaming like the dream turned nightmare]**
I DON’T LIVE HERE! JUST RENT THE SPACE!
WATCH THE WHOLE DREAM BURN IN PLACE!
THANK ME WHEN THE ASHES FLOAT AWAY!
AIN’T MY FAULT—YOU TAUGHT ME HOW TO FADE!
**[Outro – one lonely Rhodes chord rings out, Doobie whispers through the smoke]**
…told you this wasn’t my fault…
…sweet dreams…
Float away on the fi
ReAsh
