Outside My Own Skin

Slow-build indie-cinematic ballad: close, breathy male vocal over sparse piano and soft, swelling strings. First verse almost a whisper with roomy reverb; dynamics rise each section as low strings and distant percussion thumps enter. Chorus opens into wide, emotional belts with doubled vocals and airy pads. Final pass strips back to piano and a single cello line, ending on a hanging chord and fading vocal ad-lib., deep, male vocals, slow, raw