Dial Back Home

[Intro: radio tuning, lush analog synth]

[Verse 1: syncopated melodic rap]
I found a frequency that speaks to me
A perfect little song in perfect harmony
But somewhere in the static lives another tune
And I keep reaching for the dial each afternoon

[Pre-Chorus: ascending vocal layers]
One little turn and something fades
Another world begins to play

[Chorus: soaring harmonized melody]
I'm listening to everything I wanted
But haunted by the signals passing through
Every time I find a perfect station
I wonder what the others could have been
[808 slides beneath sustained falsetto]
And I can't hear a thousand songs
Without losing the one I'm on

[Break: chopped synth, melodic bass counterpoint]

[Bridge: stripped piano, intimate]
The music isn't incomplete
Just because there's more beyond the beat
But knowing that won't quiet down
The distant songs without a sound

[Outro: fading radio static]
I turn the dial back home
And wonder what I missed.