I Watched Me Say It by Eilidhschy - Zona

I Watched Me Say It by Eilidhschy - Zona

Lyrics

[Intro | whisper, close-mic male vocal, sparse piano + reversed strings, no drums]

I saw him blink before he knew it *(wait)*

A second early… or late

Hard to tell which one is real *(I swear)*

[Verse 1 | controlled male tenor, intimate tone, light piano, no percussion]

I walked into the room like I meant it *(I meant it)*

Nodded at faces I didn’t name *(yeah)*

My mouth said “fine, I’ve been better”

But I wasn’t the one who spoke that phrase *(not me)*

[Pre-Chorus | rising tension, layered vocal ghost double, strings building, faint ticking pulse]

There’s a version of me just behind me *(behind me)*

Slightly offbeat, slightly late

He watches everything I do *(yeah)*

Like I’m a habit he won’t replace

[Chorus | full belt, stacked harmonies, orchestral + glitch drums, cinematic intensity]

I watched me say it *(say it)*

Before I even knew *(knew)*

My hands moved first *(first)*

Then pulled my voice right through *(through)*

And I swear there’s two of us *(two of us)*

Same skin, out of sync *(out of sync)*

One of us is living *(living)*

One just watching what I think *(I think)*

[Verse 2 | unstable rhythm, slight delay in vocal timing, glitch percussion enters lightly]

I laughed at a joke I didn’t catch

The timing hits like borrowed motion

Like someone else pushed play on that

I asked myself if I was there

But the answer came too late

Like I’m half a second behind

[The Glitch Break | tempo drops, half-time feel, warped piano, distorted strings, vocal double slightly out of sync]

I moved before the thought arrived

Like it slipped through a crack in time

And I can hear myself correcting me

A moment after I decide

The mirror doesn’t lag behind

It just shows me out of order

And every version of my voice

Sounds like it belongs to someone older

*(soft glitch breath, almost spoken)*

“that wasn’t me… was it?”

[Pre-Chorus 2 | strained vocal, rising pitch, orchestral swell, glitch risers intensify]

He’s getting closer to the surface

I can hear him correct my tone *(don’t)*

If I turn too fast in thinking

I might see him standing alone

[Final Chorus | maximum intensity, choir layers, distorted vocals on key words, full orchestral + glitch collapse moments]

I watched me say it *(say it)*

Then watched me take it back *(no—)*

My body moving forward

While my mind stays off the track

And now we’re both talking *(yeah)*

At the same exact time

One in the silence *(shh)*

One in the rhyme *(woo)*

I watched me say it

I watched me say it

I watched me—