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.
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