Start to End
The first door opens in silence.
Start to End drifts through Corin’s dreamlike haze — a whispered reflection on beginnings that are already endings.
With hushed vocals, airy harmonies, and glitch-kissed dreampop textures, the song feels like stepping into the Vanishing Room itself: a place where memory and time loop endlessly, folding in on what was never fully lived.
Each note carries a trace of something left behind — the start of a story, the echo of an ending, both happening at once.
“Every story starts somewhere,” the voice says.
“And sometimes, it ends there too.”
Persona — Corin Duttoni
Corin is the one who walks between stories. Chosen by something higher — or older — he moves through the doors that connect these fragmented worlds, carrying pieces of each one with him.
In Start to End, his voice is distant and unsure, as if still learning what it means to remember. He doesn’t tell the stories outright; he introduces them, lets them echo, and then disappears — leaving only what we think we heard.
Corin’s arrival marks the beginning of The Door That Vanishes, the first thread in the web of Spider Alley.
Lyrics
I step into the alley…
and the world begins.
[Verse 1]
The lamps hum names I can’t recall,
Windows ache with painted light.
Every step pulls threads around me,
Every shadow carries my weight.
[Chorus 1]
The first word carves the silence,
Ashes scatter into the fire.
I see you arriving before you leave,
The prologue bleeds the ending in my blood.
[Verse 2]
A locket opens, smoke inside,
The letters twist but never form.
Keys appear before their locks,
Doors swing open without a hand.
[Chorus 2 – variation]
The first vow wakes the silence,
Ashes drift where sparks conspire.
I hear your breath before you exhale,
The prelude stains the ending in my blood.
[Bridge]
Clocks ignite, their hands run forward,
Dust scatters from the lungs of stone.
Every fracture splinters wider,
And the scars keep singing.
[Verse 3]
Shadows unravel from their bodies,
Moonlight spills and will not stop.
My breath escapes and does not return,
I walk deeper into the last mistake.
[Chorus 3]
The first name shouts through silence,
Ashes blaze as flames conspire.
I see your face before it vanishes,
The opening devours the last.
[Outro]
And still I walk the alley,
until the world forgets.
Lore Tie-ins
- Corin Duttoni is the myth’s traveler figure — the Door-Bearer, tasked to cross between stories.
- His name, when rearranged, hints at “Introduction,” symbolizing his eternal role as the story’s beginning.
- The Vanishing Room first manifests to him here, half dream, half threshold.
- The song’s title mirrors the nature of Spider Alley itself — every end becomes another beginning.