Lyrics: Pass of the Shuttle

Lyrics: Pass of the Shuttle

[Mood: Melancholic] [Energy: Slow accumulation, building to final chorus]

[Intro | ambient pad | no vocal]

[Verse 1 | almost spoken | narrow melody | sparse arrangement | dry vocal | close-mic] The thread was already there when the morning found it stretched between two posts that had no name someone said this will be the warp someone said this will be the weft and the shuttle moved

[Chorus | stepwise descending hook | plain delivery | upright bass enters] Where you been is good and gone all you keep is the getting there each pass of the shuttle lays a thread you can't take back the fabric was the first wall between the room and the weather and the wall was made of thread

[Verse 2 | hushed | steadier pulse | slightly brighter] The first pass was a word said once in a room with no light it could not be taken back taking it back meant unravelling everything that would come after so the shuttle moved

[Chorus | fuller | bass returns | plain delivery] Where you been is good and gone all you keep is the getting there each pass of the shuttle lays a thread you can't take back the fabric was the first wall between the room and the weather and the wall was made of thread

[Bridge | stripped | nearly spoken | pulse drops on "immortal"] There's a bird in the corner trying to fly a few beats in the dark you would say it was dying it is not dying it is the sound the loom makes when no one is watching and it is immortal

[Verse 3 | treble only | fragile | half-time feel] The passes went on the fabric grew each one a version of the hand that could not go back without unravelling the version that came before

[Final Chorus | full pulse | loudest section | all voices] Where you been is good and gone all you keep is the getting there each pass of the shuttle lays a thread you can't take back the fabric was the first wall between the room and the weather and the wall was made of thread

[Outro | a cappella | voice alone | no instruments] The last pass was the colour of the dark room same as the first pass you would say the fabric was finished it was not finished it was immortal [fade out]