Nothing But Time

Trip-Hop / Dark Electronic... Adapted from my poem 'Nothing But Time'. (Please subscribe if you enjoy my content.) *Primary Genre:* Trip-Hop / Dark Electronic *Sonic Texture:* Think Portishead meets Massive Attack and early Tricky. A heavy, slow-tempo (80 BPM), vinyl-crackle breakbeat pairs with a deep, pulsing sub-bass. *Vocal Production:* The lead vocals are intimate, dry, and delivered in a melancholic, near-whispered spoken-word or sultry croon. --- Lyric Sheet *Tempo:* 80 BPM *Mood:* Claustrophobic, Hypnotic, Melancholic #### *[Intro]* (Spoken-word whisper over a dusty, ticking clock sample and a low bass drone) Tick tock... Tick tock... #### *[Verse 1]* Check in, check the clock Tick tock, tick tock Just a game of words in time With no melody and no rhyme *(Counterpoint vocal enters, pitched down:) No melody... no rhyme... #### *[Chorus]* (**Lead:) We got nothing but time (**Harmony Response Overlapping) Closing doors is the crime... (**Lead:) Bending the paradigm (**Harmony Response Overlapping) Leaving reason behind... (**Both:**) Shivers down the spine, we got nothing but time. #### *[Verse 2]* Cold is the day Stay away, stay away No time for this now We gotta make it work somehow (Call-and-Response: Left channel whispers "Stay away," Right channel echoes "Somehow...") #### *[Chorus]* (**Lead:) We got nothing but time (**Harmony Response Overlapping) Closing doors is the crime... (**Lead:) Bending the paradigm (**Harmony Response Overlapping) Leaving reason behind... (**Both:**) Shivers down the spine, we got nothing but time. #### *[Verse 3]* What comes next? Another text, another text Bait the hook on the line Send the shivers down the spine #### *[Bridge]* (The breakbeat drops out, leaving only a swelling synth pad and an overlapping vocal cascade) (**Lead:) Walked away from life... (**Harmony Entering mid-phrase) ...Left the strife, left the strife (**Lead:) Nothing left to gain... (High harmony) ...Left with nothing but the pain (**All Vocals Sustained harmony) Coming back, don't know when... Come again, come again. #### *[Guitar / Synth Solo - Dark, distorted, filtered]* #### *[Chorus]* (Full instrumentation returns, heavy bass, maximum vocal layers) (**Lead:) We got nothing but time (**Harmony Response Overlapping) Closing doors is the crime... (**Lead:) Bending the paradigm (**Harmony Response Overlapping) Leaving reason behind... (**Both:**) Shivers down the spine, we got nothing but time. #### *[Outro]* (Instrumentation strips back to just the clock tick and a fading bassline) Come again... Come again... (Whisper) Nothing left but the pain. (Clock ticks stop abruptly)