Apogee

{glitchy vocoder vocal chops,

shimmering synthesizer swells, 140 BPM,

key of G# minor,

highpass filter swept upwards}

So let me go,

let me go — I’m rising to apogee

Farthest from the gravity

that used to be my need

Let my light go thin and gold

and slow across the sea

Of everyone I’m leaving — I’m

alone at apogee

{soaring crystalline female vocals,

heavy vocoder processing, tight 808 sub-bass,

rapid hi-hat rolls} Halos in the window where your name used to

be

Numbers on the mirror keeping distance clean

I traded every warm thing for a colder kind of free

Now the constant that I’m orbiting is nothing I can see {colder

vocal tone, stuttering vocal glitch effects,

minimal percussion, deep sub-bass pulse} And the ground I used to pray

to is a pale blue dot

Every voice that ever loved me is a fading thought

Higher

— till the signal’s almost lost

{dramatic vocal build-up, accelerating synthesizer patterns,

sweeping riser, snare roll} So let me go,

let me go — I’m rising to apogee

Farthest from the gravity

that used to be my need

All my light goes thin and gold

and slow across the sea Of everything I

wanted — I am

finally

free

{hollow electronic texture, driving dembow-inflected trap rhythm,

ping-pong

stereo vocal echoes} But what if the top of the sky is

a longer way to fall

What if the cold I called gold was never gold at all

I can hear you,

small and far, still calling out my name

Like a star that died for years but never quit the flame

{near-whisper vocoded vocals, sudden emotional swelling,

thick analog synthesizer layers,

heavy drum entry} Apogee… apogee… The highest

that I climb… the least of me… {stripped down

electronic beat, dry micro-sliced vocal fragments,

sub-bass dominant, mechanical vocode shots}

So come and pull me home —

I’m done with apogee

Done with all the gravity

I taught

myself to

flee

Let my light come warm and low

and slow across the sea

Of everything I ran from

— bring me back to me {fullest energetic peak,

massive chords, double-tracked bright vocals,

intense trap elements} Blue on the glass… your hand back on the

wire…

I was done with leaving — done with rising higher {soft decaying

chords, gentle mechanical vocal artifacts,

slow fade to silence}