[INTRO]
(soft alarm clock ambience)
(vinyl crackle)
(warm detuned synth pad)
(mutated clock tick synced to tempo)
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[VERSE 1]
Six a.m., blue light blinking
Coffee burns, I’m half awake
Same route, same empty sunrise
Feel my youth begin to shake
Badge me in, I fade to numbers
Hours stacked like concrete walls
Days keep slipping through my fingers
Like I never held them at all
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[PRE-CHORUS]
(filtered drums enter slowly)
(soft tape saturation on vocals)
Time keeps moving when I’m frozen
Weeks dissolve into the floor
I keep asking where it’s going
But it’s gone before I’m sure
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[CHORUS]
(dreamy bassline swells)
(drums bloom wide, lo-fi swing)
Clocked in, fading out
Feels like life is skipping frames
Days turn into months now
I forget what I became
Still here, pushing through
Pain and grief don’t pay no rent
I can’t quit, I just endure
Wondering where the time went
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[POST-CHORUS]
(soft vocal hums)
(tape wow & flutter)
Where’d it go
Where’d it go
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[VERSE 2]
Four p.m., sky still empty
Phone lights up, no one calls
Same friends in the same city
But we’re strangers after all
Used to laugh without a reason
Now it feels scheduled and thin
Guess we changed between the seasons
Or maybe it was always me then
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[PRE-CHORUS 2]
(synth pad lifts slightly)
(delayed ad-libs trailing)
Distance growing without motion
Living close but far apart
Was it them or was it me though
When did silence learn my heart
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[CHORUS]
(full groove returns, warmer tone)
Clocked in, fading out
Watching life move way too fast
Trying not to drown in now
While I’m haunted by the past
Still here, standing tall
Even when it’s hard to breathe
If I break, I break quiet
But I won’t let it break me
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[BRIDGE]
(drums drop out)
(ambient synth wash)
(low heartbeat-style sub pulse)
I count time in tired mornings
And nights I don’t feel home
Grief sits heavy in my shoulders
Stress sleeps next to me alone
But I swear there’s something waiting
Past the hours I survive
If I keep my head above it
Maybe I’ll still feel alive
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[FINAL CHORUS]
(drums return softer, emotional peak)
(airy harmony stack)
Clocked in, still holding on
Even when the days feel thin
Life keeps flying past my eyes
But I’m still breathing in
If we changed, then let it change us
If we drift, then let it be
I’m still here, still becoming
Even if it’s slowly
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[OUTRO]
(instrumental fade)
(vinyl crackle returns)
(clock tick dissolves into reverb)
Same city
Different lives
Still moving
Through time