Half Of Everything

[Tempo: 120 BPM

Key: G minor

Production direction:

Lo-fi ambient house textures

Synthwave pads with vinyl hiss

Phonk-inspired pitch bends and dusty snares

Minimal funk groove on 808 bass

Medieval harp flickers layered with electro-organ chords

UK garage swing hi-hats with microhouse rhythm

Jazz-tone synth piano + vocoder-smeared backing vocals

Vocal samples drift in and out like half-formed thoughts]

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I take the world in sips, not swallows

Streetlight flickers where I borrow

Half a feeling, half a name

Caffeine truths in a paper frame

I see my hands but not my face

Clock skips like a record misplaced

I stare through glass instead of in

And count the moments I didn’t begin

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I said if I left, I’d come back for you

(Beneath the beat where the silence grew)

I said if I left, I’d come back for you

(Through static thoughts and midnight glue)

I said if I left, I’d come back for you

(But I dissolved in what felt true)

I said if I left, I’d come back for you

(And maybe I’m halfway through)

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I only feel in borrowed tones

Field recordings, dial tones

You smiled once in a taxi mirror

And I loop that look like chandelier

A synthwave ghost of what I meant

I move through days on accident

Drinking fragments of my name

Trying to glitch out of the same

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Yeah…

I pressed pause on being whole

Let every version take its toll

Walked through night with velvet feet

Never full, but never beat

Your voice is jazz on broken speakers

I catch your name in subway reverb

So if I’m gone, don’t say goodbye

I’m just a whisper passing by

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I said if I left, I’d come back for you

(Where dream and data split in two)

I said if I left, I’d come back for you

(In halftone hope and deja vu)

I said if I left, I’d come back for you

(Still half-alive, still half-true)

I said if I left, I’d come back for you

(And I… still intend to)

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Synths breathe out like memory

Bassline fades like sympathy

And I microdose this feeling still

Hoping you remember

I will