ECHOES IN THE DARK

Ambient static and a warm analog pad. A glitched vocal loop flickers like a damaged signal.

vocoder loop)

We are echoes… echoes… of a past life…

Drifting… drifting… through the night…

A steady 4/4 pulse emerges, sidechained and distant.

(robotic falsetto over filtered synth)

Your voice is on the radio,

Fading in the static low.

I reach but touch an afterglow—

A ghost I used to know.

(layered vocoder harmonies; warm bass enters)

And I run through the wires,

Through memory’s fire.

Back to the start

Of a broken heart.

In the silence, I hear

You calling me near—

But you’re just a spark

In the dark.

(tight phrasing, vocoder layered with soft melodic synths)

Tapes rewind inside my head,

Moments left unsaid.

Photographs that never fade,

Lovers mislaid.

Neon tears upon the pane,

The city sleeps beneath the rain.

I walk alone, still feel your name—

A whisper in the frame.

(minimal groove, delayed vocals echo off each other)

I see your silhouette

In every silhouette.

Every street we used to know

Now plays in monochrome.

(emotionally charged, rapid-fire verse with internal rhyme and broken cadence)

I’m glitchin’ in loops, signal’s twisted in static,

Tried to move on but the past’s automatic.

Memories flicker, stuck on repeat—

Every thought drags me back to the heat.

You were light in a world too dim,

Now I’m trapped in the glass where your echo’s been.

I code my grief into verse and flame—

Still runnin’ from the sound of your name.

(instrumentation stripped back; haunting vocoder falsetto)

And I run through the wires…

Through memory’s fire…

Back to the start…

Of a broken heart…

full harmonic bloom; layered vocals and analog warmth swell)

Still I run through the wires,

Through memory’s fire.

Back to the start,

Of a broken heart.

In the silence, I hear

You calling me near—

Still just a spark…

In the dark.

(looped vocoder fading into silence)

We are echoes… echoes… of a past life…

Drifting… drifting… through the night…

(Final note bends downward like power draining from a circuit. End on silence.)