Sweep the Floor

[Intro: delicate piano, deep 808 pulse]

[Verse 1: gentle melodic phrasing]
I started with a thousand shapes inside the stone
Every one a future I could call my own
I carved away the pieces till a face appeared
And found a life more beautiful than I had feared

[Pre-Chorus: ascending harmonies]
But scattered on the studio floor
Are all the things I can't restore

[Chorus: soaring bittersweet melody]
Every masterpiece leaves something behind
A thousand possibilities I'll never find
I love the shape of everything I've made
But mourn the marble that I chipped away
[Layered falsetto, descending run]
How can something look so right
And cost a thousand other lives?

[Break: melodic cowbell, syncopated bass]

[Bridge: intimate, suspended chords]
I couldn't make them all come true
Each little cut was something new
And even if I started clean
I'd lose another world unseen

[Outro: soft falsetto]
The statue stands so beautifully
But I still sweep the floor.