STILL RENDERING

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Intro

Three in the morning, version fourteen

Verse 1

Foam panels held with command strips, one peeling off the drywall Condenser mic got a tube sock on it, pop filter cracked last fall Monitor's got a dead pixel cluster top right shaped like Florida Scroll past a promoted post, AI track, 1.2 million plays I don't feel nothing about it, that's the part that should concern me I just drag an EQ band two decibels up and keep working Headphones smell like yesterday, left cup splitting at the foam 808 rattles something in the drawer every time the sub comes home

Pre-chorus

Fourteen takes and I kept the worst one 'Cause the worst one meant it

Chorus

Still rendering, still rendering The file's not done, I'm not done Still rendering, still rendering Screen says seventy percent and I believe it

Verse 2

Recorded the verse fourteen times, kept take nine for the breath catch Moved one syllable three milliseconds left, nobody hearing that But I heard it, and the version where I didn't sounds like giving up Voice clone features now, singer never showed up Point-zero-zero-three per stream, I did the math, that's negative money Adjusting reverb decay by four milliseconds at 3 AM Wet sounds like a parking garage, dry sounds like my den

Pre-chorus

Fourteen takes and I kept the worst one 'Cause the worst one had a crack in it

Chorus

Still rendering, still rendering The file's not done, I'm not done Still rendering, still rendering Screen says seventy percent and I believe it

Verse 3

Forum tab, independent artists, survival thread Someone said watermark your masters, someone said get a real job instead I closed the tab, went back to the mix, bar twelve, second take My voice does this thing where it almost hesitates Not a mistake, not a choice, somewhere underneath both A prompt can't type "almost hesitate," it don't know what doubt costs That half-breath is the whole record, everything else is sauce

Bridge

I'm not competing with the algorithm I'm competing with the idea that this is content This is a table I made by hand The grain goes wrong on one leg That's how you know a person was here

Verse 4

The sock on the mic is a credential Fourteen takes ain't inefficiency, that's devotional A carpenter don't compete with the printer making particle board They sand the joint till the wood remembers what it's for Every millisecond I moved tonight, fingerprint on the frequency Nobody asked, nobody's waiting, that's not the point of the thing to me

Verse 5

Export, march underscore nineteen underscore v14 WAV, 44.1, 24-bit, same settings as every time Close the laptop, power strip blinks green like a lighthouse For a ship already docked, room already quiet Don't post it, don't write the caption, let the file exist Dawn crawls under the curtain, checking if I'm still here

Chorus

Still rendering, still rendering The file's not done, I'm not done Still rendering, still rendering Screen says seventy percent and I believe it

Outro

(Foley: laptop close, power strip hum) (Hard stop) [Silence]

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