Slow Kisses (For Chewie)

[MOOD]
(Melancholic, heavy, intimate, cathartic)

[TEMPO]
(70 BPM (builds to 120 BPM in chorus))


[KEY] (D Minor)

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[INTRO]
(ambient pads swell)
(reverbed piano notes, distant)
(low sub bass pulse)
(soft breath before vocal)

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[VERSE 1]
I still feel you in the quiet
Every corner of this room
Your name echoes in the silence
Like you’re coming back too soon

Slow kisses on my cheek
Like time would never move
You’d look up like you always knew
Exactly what I needed too

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[PRE-CHORUS]
(stripped instrumentation)
(heartbeat-style kick)

I was breaking, I was bleeding
You just sat and held the pain
Tail still wagging like a promise
You would never walk away

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[CHORUS]
(full band enters)
(wide distorted guitars)
(emotional clean vocals building)

I miss the way you saved me
Without ever saying words
Bombastic side eye judging me
But loving me at my worst

I’d give anything for one more night
One more moment, one more sign
I’d trade the world for one slow kiss
And the way you made me feel alive

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[POST-CHORUS]
(vocal harmonies)
(choir-like pads)

Woah-oh
You were home
Woah-oh
You were love

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[VERSE 2]
The birthday’s coming like a ghost
A candle I can’t light
Twelve years never feels like enough
When you were my whole life

You’d do something dumb on purpose
Just to pull me out of my head
God, you knew me better than I knew myself
Even when I wished I was dead

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[PRE-BREAKDOWN]
(instrument drop)
(vocals close and intimate)

I feel so guilty breathing
Like I left you behind
But you spent your whole existence
Teaching me how to survive

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[BREAKDOWN]
(downtuned guitars)
(heavy drums)
(scream vocals layered with cleans)

I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU
EVEN WHEN I’M AT WORK
I HOLD IT TOGETHER FOR STRANGERS
WHILE MY HEART FUCKING HURTS

YOU LOOKED AT ME LIKE I WAS EVERYTHING
LIKE I WAS ENOUGH
NOW I’M SCREAMING YOUR NAME INTO NOTHING
TRYING NOT TO FALL APART

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[BRIDGE]
(instrumental pullback)
(reverb-drenched vocals)
(female ethereal harmonies)

If love is energy
Then you’re still here
Still in the way I breathe
Still in the tears

You didn’t leave
You just went quiet
Waiting somewhere
Where pain can’t find us

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[FINAL CHORUS]
(full instrumentation, emotional peak)

I miss the way you saved me
Every time I lost my way
You never needed fixing
You just stayed

If heaven’s real I hope you’re running
No leash, no fear, no pain
Save me a spot right next to you
I’ll see you again

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[OUTRO]
(piano returns)
(ambient fade)
(soft tail-wag rhythm implied in percussion)

Happy birthday, Chewie
Thank you for my life

Atmospheric Progressive Metalcore with Devotional Alt-Metal, Ambient Post-Metal textures, and Djent-influenced Grooves