End to Start (Cover)
The final echo of the Room. “End to Start (Cover)” marks Corin’s quiet departure — a song of release, reflection, and return.
Where the original track was the Room’s language, fragmented and unreadable, this version is Corin’s reply: a human voice tracing its way back through the silence.
Each lyric rewinds the collapse — unburning paper, unbreaking glass, and unmaking loss.
What was once code becomes confession; what was silence becomes understanding.
The alley fades behind him as the door opens to something darker beyond — a haunting blend of ambient dreampop and fading light, closing one story as another begins. This version doesn’t translate The Room — it remembers it differently.
“Unspoken words fold shut,
ashes climb back into the fire.”
It’s the moment the storyteller turns the final key — not to lock the Room, but to leave the door ajar for whoever comes next.
Persona — Corin Duttoni
Corin’s voice here is stripped bare — quiet, resolute, and finally at peace with what he can’t keep. After guiding others through the doors, End to Start (Cover) becomes his own reflection: a farewell to what he’s carried, and an offering to what remains.
His tone carries neither grief nor relief, only stillness — the acceptance that stories, once told, have lives of their own. He steps away, knowing the Room will remember him even when he no longer remembers himself.
Lyrics
[Chorus]
Unspoken words fold shut,
Ashes climb back into the fire.
I see you leaving before you arrive,
The ending writes the prologue in my blood.
[Verse 1]
Paper unburns in my hands,
Letters rejoin the torn spine.
Names carve themselves out of wood,
Echoes breathe me back alive.
[Chorus 2]
Forgotten vows close their eyes,
Ashes gather where sparks conspire.
I hear your footsteps before they begin,
The silence signs the prelude in my blood.
[Verse 2]
Shadows crawl back into their bodies,
The key drips backward into the lock.
Doors swing closed before I can touch them,
And silence becomes the song again.
[Bridge]
Clocks unravel, hands retreat,
Dust returns to the lungs of stone.
Every fracture stitches itself,
But the scars still whisper.
[Chorus 3]
Unspoken words fold shut,
Ashes bloom where flames expire.
I see your shadow before your shape,
The final line devours the first.
[Verse 3]
Windows mend their shattered glass,
Moonlight seeps back into night.
My breath flows back into my chest,
And I return to the first mistake.
[Outro]
I step into the alley…
and the world begins.
Lore Tie-ins
- The cover version of End to Start serves as Corin’s reply to the Room — an act of translation through emotion rather than language.
- Symbolically, this track mirrors the album’s first song, Start to End, completing the cycle and turning the journey inward.
- The closing line, “I step into the alley… and the world begins,” implies that the story does not end within the Room, but continues through those who hear it.
- It marks the final known appearance of Corin Duttoni as the storyteller — the keybearer stepping out of the myth, leaving the door open for new voices.
- The Room’s voice recedes, but its hum remains faint beneath the final notes — an echo that suggests another story waiting beyond the silence.