Clocked in, Fading out

(soft alarm clock ambience)

(vinyl crackle)

(warm detuned synth pad)

(mutated clock tick synced to tempo)

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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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(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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(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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(soft vocal hums)

(tape wow & flutter)

Where’d it go

Where’d it go

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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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(instrumental fade)

(vinyl crackle returns)

(clock tick dissolves into reverb)

Same city

Different lives

Still moving

Through time