Ductwork

\[intro]

fluorescents hum / camera blinks / no one moves first

\[verse 1]

stale air, new fear, vents sing static

footprints ghost on the tile—automatic

thumbprint smudge on the glass of your name

you wipe, it hides, it comes back the same

\[pre-chorus]

we keep the room immaculate, but never clean

everything we touch grows gray between

\[chorus]

shake it / it settles—on the wrists, on the vowels

we dance in the residue / breathe in the vowels

nothing leaves, it only thins

ductwork whispers what it wins

\[verse 2]

red exit signs teach counterfeit grace

motion sensors blink, don’t register face

I file our future under “routine checks”

filters choke, but the fan still pecks

\[pre-chorus]

we want a purge; we get a film

change the song—same silted hymn

\[chorus]

shake it / it settles—on the wrists, on the vowels

we dance in the residue / breathe in the vowels

nothing leaves, it only thins

ductwork whispers what it wins

\[bridge]

count to four with a neon cough

your shadow flickers, edges slough

we’re archives humming under skin

box-labeled “keep”—then filled with wind

\[break (instrumental cue)]

\[final chorus]

shake it / it settles—on the wrists, on the vowels

dance till the residue rewrites our howls

nothing leaves, it only thins

ductwork says: begin, begin

\[outro]

fluorescents hum / camera blinks / we move last