So Many Silent Keys

[Intro: wandering piano, offbeat clicks]
(do-mi-sol... no-no)
[Syncopated bass enters]

[Verse 1: lilting melodic rap]
I've written something beautiful in C
A melody that sounds just like me
Every chord belongs exactly where it lands
Still I dream of songs beyond my hands
(ah-ah, unresolved)

[Pre-Chorus: rising stacked thirds]
A hundred keys beneath my fingers
A thousand songs that never linger

[Chorus: soaring falsetto, piano runs]
I'm in love with the song I'm singing
But another melody keeps ringing
Every note I never play
Becomes a ghost that won't decay
(oh-oh-oh, sing it!)
How can I call this music mine
When I hear another all the time?

[Drop: chopped solfege, elastic 808]
(do-do, re-re, mi-ah!)
(bmm-tss-ka, bmm-tss-ka)

[Bridge: key change, delicate duet]
(Play what you love) I always do
(Then why the ache?) There's more that's true
I know one song can fill a room
But not the whole world I imagine

[Outro: suspended piano chord]
One beautiful song...
So many silent keys.