[Verse 1] Creak of the hallway light Sultry perfume on your collar Cold coffee growing thin Wurlitzer hums, low and warmer Soft snare taps like distant rain A vinyl hiss beneath my chin [Pre‑Chorus 1] Under sodium glow I hover Radio static eats the color [radio static, low] Ticking under the ribs of time [tick] A notification steals my breath in line [soft chime] [Chorus / Hook] Echoes call — echoes fall Echoes call — echoes fall You’re a velvet sound in the hall I reach — you slip from my palms Echoes call — echoes fall Echoes call — echoes fall Short and close like a secret call I answer, nothing answers at all [Verse 2] Your jacket draped on the hallway chair A loose thread trembles like you’re there Deep synth-bass hums under skin Pad-clouds fold the night back in Wurlitzer keys, sparse and warm Warmth like a memory of storm [Pre‑Chorus 2] Low bass rounds beneath my ribs A distant dial, fingers on the grid [radio static swells] Ticking tightens the space between [tick — repeat] That soft chime steals the quiet we’d been [Chorus / Hook] Echoes call — echoes fall Echoes call — echoes fall You’re a velvet sound in the hall I reach — you slip from my palms Echoes call — echoes fall Echoes call — echoes fall Short and close like a secret call I answer, nothing answers at all [Bridge ] Notification drops like a cue [notification — single chime] Barline breaks and I’m halfway through Breathy slides on every plea Pitch bends fold the memory A clock unwinds in copper light [tick builds] Your perfume lingers in the night Breath and hush, brittle and thin I press replay and let it spin [Chorus / Hook — stripped] Echoes call — echoes fall Echoes call — echoes fall (soft, intimate) [Outro ] Wurlitzer carries me toward dawn Pads blur the edge where you’re gone [pad low-pass] Ticking drifts to a single note [tick — fade] Radio static, then the coat of hope A final echo, thin and small Echoes call — echoes fall [Performance & FX Cues — lyrical placement] - Use ticking as an undercurrent: subtle during verses, brighter sotto voce under pre-choruses, builds into bridge. - Single notification chime as a bar-drop cue before choruses and again as a subtle pivot in the bridge. - Radio static as a soft wash in pre-choruses and bridge, swells briefly before the final chorus. - Vocal approach: intimate, breathy, female R&B lead with small pitch slides and delayed reverb; pull back dynamics in verses, push forward on hooks.