One Call

Verse 1

Restrained close male vocal

Sparse instrumental, swung breakbeat

It’s past one in the morning

The city lights have dimmed

My screen flashes

Breaking my silence

Rain beats against the glass

Blurs the neon trails

My neighborhood stands frozen

In a ringing quiet

Glitch percussion fill

Your name on my screen

[Distorted bass hit] Hits like a sudden blow

Like an old password

It shatters the ground below

I hold my device

In my frozen hand

All my thoughts drift away

To the other side

Pre-Chorus

Build-up, rising tension

Thought I’d escaped

Thought time saved me

Thought scars healed

Warmth faded away

Midnight sees through walls

Remembers your trace

This night pulls me under

Back to your place

Hard silence cut

False-drop stop

Chorus

Dense chorus lift

Forceful aggressive male vocal

Heavy distorted bass, tape-saturated drums

One call, I rush back (one call)

One call, it all turns black (one call)

I fall so deep

No light comes back

One call, and the years go slack

One call, I’m lost again (one call)

One call, I’m gone in the rain

Just one call

And I’m there again

Verse 2

Sparse instrumental, close vocal

Water floods the empty streets

Washes wild days clean

I thought the years had slipped through

Like ice in my hands

But memories don’t sleep

They keep their teeth in me

They leave scars on my soul

Like ink under skin

We were both just actors

In a silent little play

Through the roar and the storm

Your face comes back to me

Through the darkness of the night

You rise from the deep

And all the walls I built

Start breaking at the seams

Pre-Chorus

Build-up, rising tension

Thought I’d escaped

Thought time saved me

Thought scars healed

Warmth faded away

Midnight sees through walls

Remembers your trace

This night pulls me under

Back to your place

Hard silence cut

Chorus

Dense chorus lift

Forceful aggressive male vocal

One call, I rush back (one call)

One call, it all turns black (one call)

I fall so deep

No light comes back

One call, and the years go slack

One call, I’m lost again (one call)

One call, I’m gone in the rain

Just one call

And I’m there again

Bridge

Beat drop, heavy low-pass filter

The receiver comes alive

White noise hiss, radio static

Your breath cracks the silence

And I lose my grip

The walls come down

My fortress in the dust

I wait for your voice

Just one word

Hard silence cut

Chorus

Maximum density explosion

Forceful aggressive male vocal

One call, I rush back (one call)

One call, it all turns black (one call)

I fall so deep

No light comes back

One call, and the years go slack

One call, I’m lost again (one call)

One call, I’m gone in the rain

Just one call

And I’m there again

Outro

Glitchy fading outro, dub delay stabs

Tell me

I’ll return to darkness

One call

Fade to silence

End