(Lofi trip-hop / dark spoken-word / dusty breakbeat / 72-82 BPM. Male lead vocal, faint female backing vocal. Muted Rhodes, low bass pulse, tape hiss, no heavy synth, no record scratching. Slow psychological descent, intimate bedroom-recording feel.)
[INTRO - no drums, low pad, close vocal]
You can go deep
If you're willing
To go out on a limb
Everyone visits the bottom
At some time
Anything we deny
Or repress
Becomes our shadow
[VERSE 1 - beat enters low and restrained]
Things have been working out
Much better now
I would have thanked you
For asking
No home
Only memories to hold
Things turn out
For the worse
With many right now
Upbringing taught awareness
Of influence
And presence
[BREAK - drums thin out, bass remains]
Accountable
For more
Than one can know
Isolation worked
Til now
[HOOK - half-sung, hypnotic]
The winnowing
The shadow knows
What we carry
What we show
The winnowing
The undertow
What we bury
Starts to grow
[VERSE 2 - colder, more direct]
It's about an individual
Achieving
Where are all
The individuals?
If you tell someone
A truth
They'll think
You're lying
There is evil
Same as virtue
Yet human emotions
Are more powerful
Than the mind
[PRE-HOOK - female backing vocal echoes last words]
Transcendent emotion
Transcendent emotion
Any tool
Can be used
For many purposes
[HOOK - fuller but still minimal]
The winnowing
The shadow knows
What we carry
What we show
The winnowing
The undertow
What we bury
Starts to grow
[OUTRO - unresolved, designed for extension]
Sudden rise into
A red sun
Something underneath
Still moving
The winnowing
Has only just begun
THE WINNOWING - EXTENSION 1
(Dark lofi trip-hop continuation. Same groove, more hypnotic. Keep drums restrained. Male lead spoken rhythm, female ghost backing. No heavy synth, no record scratching.)
[RE-ENTRY - instrumental only]
[Muted Rhodes, dusty kick, late snare, low bass pulse. No lead vocal.]
[VERSE 3 - spoken like decoding a page]
Sudden rise into
In sudden rise to
Red sun sedition
Druid noise nest
Edit sound resin
Did note sunrise
Odd sneer in suit
Its odd inner use
Eden dirt is on us
Unsorted inside
Insure in oddest
One-sided it runs
[BREAK - voice gets closer]
Sour is intended
It derides nouns
Underside to sin
Resounds in edit
Its needs I round
Sun riots denied
I undo residents
[HOOK VARIATION - mantra]
The winnowing
The words rearrange
Same old letters
Different cage
The winnowing
The shape remains
Same old weather
Different rain
[BRIDGE - drums drop out, only pad and hiss]
It's a story about
A man
Who gives up
On his dreams
And decides
To work
Work
Till death
Instead
[HOOK - quiet but heavy]
The winnowing
The shadow knows
What we carry
What we show
The winnowing
The undertow
What we bury
Starts to grow
[OUTRO - unresolved, designed for extension]
Work till death
Instead
Work till death
Instead
But something underneath
Still knows
THE WINNOWING - EXTENSION 2
(Lofi trip-hop final movement. Sparse, intimate, medical-mystery undertone without becoming literal. Muted Rhodes, soft bass, tape hiss, no heavy synth, no record scratching. Let the final words feel powerful and clear.)
[RE-ENTRY - no drums, close vocal]
If you're predisposed to it
It can drip
Right to your brain
But they were looking
For an epidemic
For most
It's a mild flu
[VERSE 4 - drums return very soft]
Many were terminal
It may be an injury
Maybe low enzyme levels
Cell damage
Takes time
It's in the brain
All testing
Turns out normal
[BREAK - one bar silence]
All testing
Turns out normal
[FINAL HOOK - stripped down]
The winnowing
The shadow knows
What we carry
What we show
The winnowing
The undertow
What we bury
Starts to grow
[BRIDGE - callback, female backing vocal underneath]
Everyone visits the bottom
At some time
Anything denied
Becomes the shadow
No home
Only memories to hold
Isolation worked
Til now
[FINAL HOOK - more open, slow lift]
The winnowing
The shadow knows
What we carry
What we show
The winnowing
The undertow
What we bury
Starts to grow
[OUTRO - beat dissolves, only voices remain]
You can go deep
If you're willing
To go out
On a limb
Human emotions
Are more powerful
Than the mind
[FINAL SPOKEN WORDS - clear power]
The Winnowing
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