Salt the Wound, Sugar the Bullets

[Intro (Bass + Guitar only)]

[Four bars of walking bass — slow, round tone. Guitar plays single, clean upstrokes on the off-beat. No drums yet.]

[Aimee (spoken, soft):]

[(Bass walks down. Drums enter with a rim-click and a brush on snare.)]

[Verse 1]

[(Sung low, almost a whisper — think Amy Winehouse meets horror movie)]

[(Horns enter — soft, far away, like a distant funeral)]

[Chorus]

[(Full band, but still restrained — horns breathe, drums barely move)]

[(Dusty organ swell on "ear" — then drop back to verse)]

[Verse 2]

[(Slightly louder, but still controlled)]

[(Horns play a single, low, wavering note — held for four bars)]

[Chorus (Repeat)]

[Same arrangement. Aimee adds a tiny laugh at the end of "pull it."]

[Bridge (Full stop — just voice and a single organ note)]

[(A capella, but with deep reverb)]

[Aimee:]

[(Silence. Two seconds.)]

[Dusted Dollies (whispered, harmonized):]

[(Full band crashes back in — but slower, heavier)]

[Horn Solo (8 bars)]

[Chorus (Once — stripped down)]

[No organ. No Dollies. Just bass, drums, and Aimee's voice cracking on "disappear."]

[Outro (Fade to dust)]

[(Aimee, spoken over a single repeating bass note)]

[(Bass stops.)]

[Aimee (barely audible):]

[(Horns play one final, soft chord — then decay for six seconds.)]

[(Distant sound of a match striking. Then nothing.)]