[Intro- instrumental: distant engine hum, cold wind ambience, wide sub-bass pulse, sparse piano, soft radio static]
[Verse 1- vocal: intimate, restrained, steady pacing]
I leave the city in a blur of light
Red turns breaking in the rearview
Phone face-down in the cupholder
Like it already knew
The road keeps pulling me upward
Past the noise I can’t explain
Guardrails flashing like reminders
I forgot my own name
[Pre-Chorus- vocal: softer, tightening rhythm]
I don’t come up here for answers
I don’t come up here for escape
Just somewhere the signal weakens
Long enough for me to break
[Chorus- vocal: controlled, wide, grounded]
So I climb until it turns quiet
Till the city falls away
Park where the world looks smaller
Than anything I could say
And I don’t feel better or worse here
Just finally out of reach
Like the weight I’ve been carrying
Forgot how to speak
[Post-Chorus- instrumental: wind swell, low ambient drift, distant tonal shimmer]
[Verse 2- vocal: reflective, slightly more open]
Coffee cold in the console
Hoodie folded in the seat
Some half-song on the radio
Breaking up beneath my feet
And the air up here is thinner
Not just oxygen, but thought
Like the mountain strips the meaning
From everything I’ve fought
[Pre-Chorus- vocal: quiet, suspended tension]
Silence doesn’t try to fix me
Doesn’t ask me who I am
It just lets me sit beside it
Without needing a plan
[Chorus- vocal: wider, but still restrained]
So I climb until it turns quiet
Till I stop needing control
Watching every distant light below me
Like pieces of my soul
And I don’t feel healed or broken
Just suspended for a while
Like the version of me driving
Finally lost its mile
[Bridge- vocal: near whisper, stripped down]
I think people would call it something
That doesn’t fit at all
But there’s a difference in the silence
Between standing and the fall
I’m not looking for an ending
I’m just trying to exist
Where the noise inside my body
Can finally be dismissed
[Final Chorus- vocal: soft emotional lift, no explosion]
So I stay until the sky shifts
From black into fading blue
Till the world below starts waking
And I start waking too
Then I drive back down in silence
Same hands, same weight, same skin
But the mountain kept my chaos
Long enough to let me in
[Outro- instrumental: fading wind, distant road hum, soft piano decay, sub-bass dissolving into silence]
Eilidhschy
