[Intro]
[Soft Piano, Distant Ambient Wind, Light Guitar Harmonics]
[Spoken Vocal]
It rarely happens all at once.
Change does not arrive by chance.
It arrives as accumulation…
Until suddenly unreliable…
Becomes undeniable.
[Verse 1]
A small imbalance in the system
A shift too slight to name
A quiet drift in baseline rules
That never looks the same
You carry on through daily noise
Assuming it will pass
Not noticing the pattern
Forming in the glass
[Pre-Chorus]
A line becomes a signal
(A signal becomes more)
What once was barely visible
(Starts knocking at the door)
[Chorus]
One day
(Along the way)
You notice
(An injustice)
Askew…
(What was one or two)
Grew and grew
(And grew, too)
The wait gained weight
[Verse 2]
The numbers start to gather
The edges start to fray
What felt like coincidence
No longer fades away
The curve begins to steepen
The baseline rearranged
And what you thought was stable
Is quietly exchanged
[Pre-Chorus]
A whisper becomes warning
(A warning becomes sound)
What once was scattered signals
(Begins begins screaming all around)
[Chorus]
One day
(Along the way)
You notice
(An injustice)
Askew…
(What was one or two)
Grew and grew
(And grew, too)
The wait gained weight
[Bridge]
[Music Drops to Bass, Piano, Sparse Percussion]
It wasn’t sudden…
It wasn’t loud…
It was layered expectation
Underneath a growing cloud
Each step too small to measure
Each change too slow to feel
Until the accumulation
Makes the abstract suddenly real
[Build]
Small shifts
(Becoming trend)
Lost ground
(Without an end)
Quiet drift
(Becomes demand)
Until you finally understand
[Final Chorus]
One day
(Along the way)
You notice
(An injustice)
No longer hidden
(No disguise)
It was always forming
(Before your eyes)
Askew…
(What was one or two)
Grew and grew
(And grew, too)
The wait gained weight
(No debate)
Too, too late
[Outro]
[Ambient Piano and Soft Wind]
One day…
Is never really one day.
It is many ways…
(In many days)
Until now…
(And now you know)
[Fade Out]
From the album “Cracked Windshield“