Blank Canvas

[Intro: music-box arpeggios, hummed thirds]
(mmm-ah, mmm-ah, ah-ah)
[808 glides answer vocal melody]

[Verse 1: lilting sing-rap, legato phrasing]
Every version of me left a coat by the door
Every road that I've walked keeps demanding more
All the lives that I love have a piece of my name
And I'm dreaming of a world where nobody makes a claim
(ooh-ah, ooh-ah)

[Pre-Chorus: ascending falsetto, stacked thirds]
What if I cut every thread?
(oh-oh, let it go)
Paint the sky above me red
Then let it snow
(ah-ah-ah-AHH!)

[Chorus: soaring octave leaps, lush harmonies]
Give me a blank, blank canvas
Give me a road that runs straight
No more a thousand tomorrows
Fighting for one yesterday
(Ooh-woah-oh, ooh-woah-oh)
If I could lose every life I've made
Would the silence finally feel like peace?

[Drop: melodic vocal chops, syncopated 808]
(clean-clean-clean) (ah-ee-ah!)
(no-more-no-more) (ooh-oh-oh!)
[Melodic cowbell counterpoint, breakbeat]

[Verse 2: flowing melody, rising cadences]
I could leave every key on the kitchen floor
Let a stranger be the one who walks out the door
But the walls have a voice and the rooms have a name
Would a sunrise feel as warm if I burned away the frame?
(away-ay-ay)

[Bridge: beatless, falsetto call-response]
(Stay-aaay) cries the life I know
(Go-ooo) sings the open road
[Four-part harmony, crescendo]
Maybe peace is not a place
Maybe I can't run from my own face!

[Final Chorus: key lift, countermelody]
Blank, blank canvas, calling me
(ah-ah-ah) So close to free!
A perfect line, an open plain
But who am I if nothing remains?

[Outro: descending falsetto melisma]
(Ooh-ah-ah-ah)
[808 decays, music-box resolves]