Empty Car Park Choir

Lyrics

[Intro]
[guitar delay lands alone]
[distant shoe scuff answers]
Is anyone still here? [programmed chopped kick and rim]
A little [warm sub bass]

[Verse 1]
[programmed chopped kick and rim, warm sub bass]
The painted lines were holding rain [filtered electric-piano fragments]
The shopping carts were still
Our echoes stayed behind the wall [resampled tremolo guitar]
And waited by the hill
I sang one note to find the car
Four other notes came back [gated shoe scuffs]

[Pre-Chorus]
[soft programmed kick, dry chopped rim]
No stage [dry chopped rim]
No light
Just enough of us tonight [gated shoe scuff on the missing downbeat]

[Chorus]
[gated shoe scuff on the missing downbeat, faint rapid hats only in the final refrain]
Empty car park choir [faint rapid hats only in the final refrain]
Small voices in the lines [granular self-vocal texture]
Empty car park choir [exhausted intimate single lead]
Leave the last note by the sign
No crowd [narrow range]
No display [warm sub holds one note]
The echo knows the way [rises a whole step at refrain]

[Verse 2]
[filtered electric-piano fragments, resampled tremolo guitar]
A shoe scuffed out a missing beat [programmed kick omits beat one every fourth bar while gated shoe scuffs]
The lamp delayed its hum
You sang the word we had forgotten [a chopped rim]
I answered with the wrong one
The silence did not close us down
It only made us small [resampled guitar fragments]

[Pre-Chorus]
[gated shoe scuffs, granular self-vocal texture]
No stage [sub under the first refrain]
No light
Still enough of us tonight [final refrain layers granular self-vocal replies and rapid hats]

[Chorus]
[exhausted intimate single lead, narrow range]
Empty car park choir [and a bare close voice]
Small voices in the lines [establish the chopped rim loop before the kick enters at]
Empty car park choir [bridge removes beat one but retains the gated loop and sub pulse]
Leave the last note by the sign
No crowd [then cuts to one filtered piano fragment]
No display [one voice ordinary]
The echo knows the way [tired]

[Bridge]
[Keep one voice ordinary, tired]
[soft programmed kick]
Miss beat one [Keep one voice ordinary]
Keep the step [and close]
Miss beat one [Resample that performance into imperfect granular replies]
Keep the breath
Four voices [the lift comes from rhythmic processing and restraint]
One note left [not a live choir]

[Chorus]
[granular and gated self-vocal replies]
Empty car park choir [leaving one electric-piano chord]
Small voices in the lines [a streetlight relay]
Empty car park choir [granular and gated self-vocal replies widens]
Leave the last note by the sign
No crowd [soft programmed kick widens]
No display [dry chopped rim widens]
The echo knows the way [gated shoe scuff on the missing downbeat widens]

[Outro]
[voices stop, leaving one electric-piano chord and a streetlight relay]
[voices stop]
Voices gone [leaving one electric-piano chord and a streetlight relay]
Piano remains [voices stop returns]

[End]