6. PARALLEL DAMAGE

{male panned left, female panned right} {both vocals start at 0:00 immediately}

I moved away to save us.

You moved away to disappear.

I walk on my side of the street.

I watch you walk through the dust and heat.

{rising female melody, descending male melody} {close harmony duet} We are parallel

damage. {contrasting simultaneous lines} I never learned to stay.

You never learned to leave.

These separate rooms share one single

wall.

I write the words that I cannot recall.

I write the messages I never send.

We wake

at the exact same

hour in the end.

{close harmony duet} We are

parallel damage.

{contrasting simultaneous lines} I never learned to stay.

You never learned to leave.

Distance will keep us from burning down.

Your silence only serves to make me drown.

Safe on opposite sides of the road.

Carrying the same heavy broken load.

{minimal

instrumentation} {two-part vocal harmony} Different roads.

The same collision.

{full instrumentation re-entry} {close harmony duet} We are

parallel damage. {contrasting simultaneous lines} I never learned to stay.

You never learned to leave.

{quiet, intimate vocals over danceable bass} We are parallel damage.

Parallel damage. {fade out with analog synth chords}