What’s?

[Silence]

[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]

[Verse 1]
[Drop to Groove: Tight Bass, Clean Guitar, Light Drums]
Every choice you frame as right
Finds its edge in shade or light
Every rule you try to keep
Runs through something buried deep

Justice calls in measured tone
But compassion stands alone
What you choose to emphasize
Shapes the truth you realize

[Instrumental Break]
[Organ Lead, Guitar Echo, Syncopated Drums]
[Synth Pulses, Bass Walk]

[Verse 2]
[Expanded Arrangement, Subtle Arp Synth]
Lines get drawn in shifting sand
Held by heart or held by hand
Every stance can drift apart
From the place it got its start

What you guard and what you give
Shapes the way we choose to live
Every “must” and every “may”
Leads us down a different way

[Chorus]
[Big Chorus, Layered Vocals, Driving Rhythm]
What’s your line
(Is it about crime)
Or is your line
(Putting love above)
Where you stand
(When push comes to shove)
…what of the love?

[Bridge]
[Breakdown: Piano, Ambient Synth, Low Sub Pulse]
A line can be
(A line can bind)
A line can free
(Or close the mind)

[Build-Up]
[Snare Roll Crescendo, Rising Synth Arp, Guitar Feedback]
(What’s…)
(What’s your…)
(Line…)

[Final Chorus]
[Explosive Full Band, Double-Time Feel, Full Vocal Stack]
What’s your line
(Is it about crime)
Or is your line
(Putting love above)
What remains
(When we’re out of time)
…what of the love?

[Outro]
[Instrumental Fade: Piano Motif, Guitar Echo, Organ Drone]
[Beat Drops Out → Ambient Only]
[Spoken Vocal, fading]
In the end…
It’s what you choose…
(Win or lose)
… The End

[End → Silence]

From the album Line