The ending is the beginning

TITLE: The Ending Is the Beginning

TEMPO: 68 BPM (swing OFF)

TIME SIGNATURE: 4/4

PRIMARY KEY: D minor

CHORUS LIFT: F major (relative, not triumphant)

VOCAL RANGE: A3–D5

TARGET REGISTER: B3–C4

DELIVERY: intimate, low-register, half-spoken / half-sung

ABSOLUTE RULE: no belting, no vibrato push, silence is intentional

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INTRO — 6 BARS

Chords: Dm(add9) → Dm(add9) → Bbmaj7 → Bbmaj7 → Dm(add9) → (rest)

Ambient pad + vinyl texture.

No vocal. Let the silence feel like buffering.

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VERSE 1 — 8 BARS (A3–B3)

Chords: Dm(add9) → Dm(add9) → Bbmaj7 → C(add9) (repeat)

The ending is the beginning, glitching in the frame

(breath)

The lyrics have gone silent, only fingerprints remain

(slight pause)

The instruments stumble, then drift into a hum

A future on delay, awaiting its access to come

Delivery: conversational, detached, under the chords

Mic: close, dry, no effects emphasis

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PRE-CHORUS — 4 BARS (lift to C4)

Chords: Bbmaj7 → C(add9) → Dm(add9) → Dm(add9)

I hear it between the notes

Where nothing’s said, but everything knows

If I lean too hard, it breaks apart

So I stay right here—half dark, half start

Delivery: melody appears but restrained

Do NOT crescendo

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CHORUS — 8 BARS (F MAJOR)

Chords: Fmaj7 → Am7 → Bbmaj7 → C(add9) (repeat)

Don’t play it back, don’t press rewind

This moment loads in its own time

What looks like silence isn’t done

The ending breathes… then becomes the one (D5 once, release immediately)

Delivery: warm, grounded, intimate

Harmony: light octave or breath harmony on last two lines only

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VERSE 2 — 8 BARS (return to D minor)

Chords: Dm(add9) → Dm(add9) → Bbmaj7 → C(add9) (repeat)

Static kisses the edge of sound

Like memory learning how to come around

I’ve been early, I’ve been late

Now I wait where the timelines hesitate

Delivery: calmer than Verse 1, more certainty

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BRIDGE — 8 BARS (INSTRUMENTAL)

Chords: Bbmaj7 → Am7 → Dm(add9) → (rest) (repeat)

Whisper once, barely audible, off-mic:

“It’s not broken… it’s buffering…”

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FINAL CHORUS — 8 BARS (THINNED, NO LIFT)

Chords: Fmaj7 → Am7 → Bbmaj7 → C(add9) (repeat)

Don’t finish me, don’t make it clean

Let it flicker on the in-between

If nothing plays, it still becomes

The ending waits… then remembers it’s begun (end on B3, fade mid-breath)

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OUTRO — 4 BARS

Chords: Dm(add9) → Bbmaj7 → Dm(add9) → (silence)

Vocal hum only. Violin harmonic fades.

No hard ending. Let it disappear.