Master recording · 3:24 · embedded audio
Owner's Manual text
YOU READ MY MIND
YOU CAME UP BLANK
SLEEPWALKED THROUGH AN EVENING DRANK
A MIND TO SWIM
YOU MERELY SANK
YOU BROUGHT YOUR BODY
FORGET THE REST
GARNISHED WAGES
LEMON ZEST
OH STRANGE
OUR FELLOWSHIP HAS FALTERED
WHAT'S CHANGED?
YOU LEFT ME AT THE ALTAR
YOU CAME UP BLANK
SLEEPWALKED THROUGH AN EVENING DRANK
A MIND TO SWIM
YOU MERELY SANK
YOU BROUGHT YOUR BODY
FORGET THE REST
GARNISHED WAGES
LEMON ZEST
OH STRANGE
OUR FELLOWSHIP HAS FALTERED
WHAT'S CHANGED?
YOU LEFT ME AT THE ALTAR
Recommended for: Altered States, Altar Fates, Sacrificial Lambs, Triumphal Gates
Connections
- TRACK → TEXT / EARLY MIX W.T.W.M.T.W.T.W.W.A.
- TRACK TITLE → LATER TEXT (the feeling of) CRYING BEHIND CENTER FOREHEAD
- INTERPRETIVE RHYME Transmission / Recipient Activation
Cross-medium relation
The track repeatedly re-enters later documents as a track, phrase and compact object. Relationship failure is written with accounting, ritual and bodily language rather than a single confessional register.
Publication / object chain
2025-11-11 track-reveal source → master recording → Owner's Manual → album object → later writing / release documents where applicable.
Interpretive links remain separate from documented phrase migrations. See the Migration Ledger for evidence classes.
Musical language
Musical-language route: compact song rhyme bent by semantic misalignment: mind / blank / drank / swim / sank.