Somewhere above everything

[Intro: 7/8, melodic slap bass lead, soft keys]
(Dum-ba-da, dum-ba-dum)
(Tss-ka, boom-tika-tss)
[Glitch chops, bass harmonics]

[Verse 1: Elastic bass counterpoint]
Another flight, another city
Another coffee in my hand
Watching strangers down the aisle
With their own lives left to land
Thirty thousand feet of distance
From the things I call my own
Funny how a crowded cabin
Can leave you feeling so alone

[Pre-Chorus: 5/4, climbing bass melody]
The engines hum beneath me
Like a song I almost know
(Ooh, where did the years go?)

[Chorus: Soaring, lush harmonies]
Somewhere above everything
I'm looking at the life I've made
All the love and all the chances
All the prices that I've paid
I'm proud of where I've traveled
But there's so much left to see
Between the places I am going
And the places holding me

[Break: Bass solo, IDM breakbeat]
(Bmm-tika-tss, bmm-ba-dum)
(Go-go-gone, gone again!)
[Phonk chops, bass tapping in 9/8]

[Verse 2: Gentle, syncopated]
The window's three seats over
So I watch the people sleep
Thinking of the promises
I've made and tried to keep
Every person I've connected with
Every road I didn't take
Every version of tomorrow
That my choices couldn't make

[Bridge: Half-time, intimate falsetto]
(Will you ever settle down?)
Maybe when my heart is still
(Will you ever have enough?)
I don't know if I ever will

[Final Chorus: Key lift, soaring vocals]
Somewhere above everything
I'm grateful for the life I've made
Even all the roads behind me
That I wouldn't dare retrace
And when the wheels touch down again
I'll find another dream to chase
With a thousand lives inside my heart
And just one life to embrace

[Outro: Melodic bass reprise, 7/8]
(Dum-ba-da, dum-ba-dum)
[Cabin hum, fading Rhodes]