Cornerless by Moonwire - Zona

Cornerless by Moonwire - Zona

Lyrics

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[[PROTO: SIG=4/4 | BPM_SLOW=82 | BPM_FAST=148 | KEY=MINOR]]

[[00:00 INTRO | BARS=8 | DRUMS=OFF | BASS=SUB_PULSE | PAD=GLASSY_MONO→WIDE | FX=VINYL_HISS]]

You taught me how to stand still

in a room that kept expanding.

Every wall bent away from me

like it had somewhere better to be.

[[00:18 VERSE1 | DRUMS=SOFT | KICK=ON_1 | SNARE=GHOST | HATS=OFF | VOX=FEMALE_AIRY_CLOSE]]

I counted cracks in the paint

until they spelled a language

that carved itself in silence.

You read it with your eyes shut.

The lamp hummed like it knew us.

I held my breath to hear it choose.

[[00:48 PRE1 | HATS=SOFT | PAD=SWELL | BASS=BREATH | WIDEN=+1]]

I keep finding your fingerprints

on things I haven’t touched yet.

The air folds all around them,

unwilling to ever forget.

[[01:06 CHORUS_A | DROP_SOFT | DRUMS=ON | CLAP=2_4 | SIDECHAIN=ON | WIDEN=+2]]

I try to rebuild the silence we broke,

but it keeps coming back sharper.

I try to carry it anyway,

it burrows into my palms.

[[01:30 VERSE2 | DRUMS=LOW | PLUCK=L_R_CALL_RESP | BASS=FILTERED]]

I dreamt you as a hallway

that rewrote itself behind me.

Some nights, the exit was a mirror.

Some nights, it was my name

leaving a stranger’s mouth.

[[01:48 LULL | DRUMS=OFF | PAD=LOW | BASS=LOW | VOX=WHISPER]]

You once said nothing disappears,

it only changes address.

If that’s true, you’ve got mail

addressed to the dark side of my eyes.

[[01:57 SILENCE | LENGTH=2_BEATS]]

[[01:59 RAP_BREAK | BPM=BPM_FAST | BEAT=TRAP_HARD | 808=HEAVY | HATS=16TH | DIST_VOX=LIGHT | DOUBLE=MALE_LOW_SELECT]]

Smoke-frame city, blackout grin,

wires in my chest where the stars begin.

Door cracks wide like it’s breathing in,

and I walk that edge with a phantom skin.

Tongue sparks silver, fate runs late,

bar-code pulse at the turnstile gate.

Don’t look down, the floor turns thin,

mind skips a step, heart starts to spin.

Ground goes missing, the rails run red—

keep your name where the unsaid bled.

[[02:25 RAP_EXT | ADD=CHOIR_PAD+BRIGHT_ARP | ADLIBS=ON_LAST_WORDS]]

Neon seams in the asphalt hum,

ghost-key clicks and the locks come undone.

Catch that drop, let the ceiling shed,

drumline talks while the doubts play dead.

Name on a wire, burn it clean,

I wear the hush like a gasoline sheen.

Bite down hard till the echoes split—

I’m not done, I’m not done, this is it.

[[02:41 SLOW_RETURN | BPM=BPM_SLOW | DRUMS=HALFTIME | PAD=WIDE | VOX=FEM_LEAD+MALE_OCT_TUCK]]

I keep finding your fingerprints

on the hours I haven’t lived yet.

I press them to my chest

until my heart no longer needs them.

[[02:56 OUTRO | DRUMS=OFF | SUB=TAIL | REVERB=LONG | DELAY=QUARTER | FINAL_WORD=DRY]]

When the floor caves in,

I call it closure.

When the ceiling falls,

I call it proof.

When the echoes finally stop—

[[03:00 STOP_HARD | ALL_SOUND=OFF | SILENCE]]

[[03:02 VOX_ONLY | DRY | CLOSE]]

I’ll leave the silence with the truth

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