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He let several seconds breathe before the next note.

Park’s shoulders relaxed, chin lowered slightly, and the amused confidence that had followed him through the entire evaluation drained quietly out of his face as Peerless Male Siren settled into his voice and Mourner’s Tongue found the emotional shape beneath the lyrics.

Then he started again.

{...You made me choose between your hands and home,

then called it loyalty when I stood there alone...}

The change reached the panel almost physically.

It wasn’t because Park suddenly became louder or threw some giant impossible belt across the room.

His voice simply found them in a way good singing normally wasn’t supposed to.

The A&R executive felt the hair on her forearms rise before she consciously understood why, while one female producer stopped with her pen halfway toward the page and the vocal coach’s lips parted by the smallest amount.

Peerless Male Siren gave Park that almost offensive beauty of sound, but Mourner’s Tongue was what made the lyrics feel lived instead of performed:

The hesitation before home was tiny enough that nobody could accuse it of theatre, yet it carried the exact reluctance like Park was remembering what he had sacrificed. The word alone didn’t sound freshly wounded but exhausted, like the singer had used up all the crying months ago and had only now gained enough distance to look backward and understand how much of himself had disappeared.

The opening verse stayed slow and painful enough that somebody listening casually would have assumed they understood exactly where the song was going.

A breakup.

Great.

Another sad fucking breakup song.

Human civilization had clearly been suffering from a shortage of those.

Then Park reached the end of the verse, let the last note fade against the microphone and released a small breath.

{Eh...}

His heel touched the stage floor and found a rhythm. Another tap followed it, then his fingers joined against the microphone stand, and without a piano, backing track or instrument anywhere near him, the song changed its entire mood.

The second section arrived lighter.

Not stupid-happy...

...Free.

{...Now I got myself back and sleep just fine.

Funny how the world got bigger when you left,

I thought you broke my heart, you gave it back instead...}

One of the female producers smiled before apparently remembering she was supposed to be evaluating him.

Park opened his eyes as the melody shifted naturally into modern pop, brightening without losing what had come before.

The heartbreak had not disappeared but had become something the singer could finally look at without dying from it.

The lyrics started revealing what the first verse had hidden:

The person in the relationship had slowly isolated him from his family, turned friends into supposed enemies and made jealousy sound like devotion until control became indistinguishable from care. Every argument somehow ended with him apologizing, every compromise required something from him and every sacrifice was proof of love until the singer had almost nothing left that belonged only to himself.

But the relationship ended and he had believed it destroyed him.

Weeks later, he realized it had released him.

Park lifted into the chorus, his voice opening so cleanly through the register change that the vocal coach’s fingers tightened slightly around his pen.

{...Here’s to the goodbye that gave me back my name,

here’s to every chain I mistook for a flame.

I thought losing you would kill me, look at me alive,

best thing you ever gave me was the door on your way outside...}

The hook landed quickly enough that the A&R executive could already anticipate its shape when Park returned to it later.

That was exactly the sort of thing she listened for in commercial music; too predictable and people became bored, too complicated and nobody remembered it by the time the song ended.

Park had somehow found the irritating middle ground where the chorus felt obvious the second time only because hearing it once made the listener feel as though they’d always known where it wanted to go.

The producers caught that immediately.

One of the composers caught something else.

He leaned toward the woman beside him and spoke without taking his eyes off Park: "This isn’t really break-up song about a girlfriend."

She frowned. "It is."

"It can be."

That made her look toward him: "Listen to what he keeps using."

She did; name, home, chains, isolation, control, freedom... all of them translated into something:

Taking pieces of yourself back after giving them away one by one.

Her expression slowly changed.

"Oh!"

The song worked perfectly as a relationship breakup. A woman could sing it about a man or a man about a woman with almost no lyrical changes, but the emotional architecture underneath it went wider than romance without becoming so vague that the song lost meaning.

Somebody quitting an addiction could hear themselves inside it:

So could someone escaping an obsession, a destructive friendship, a religion they had grown to hate, a job that swallowed every part of their identity or a family situation that had taught them suffering was loyalty.

Park hadn’t written a song about everything.

He had written a specific breakup song whose emotions happened to belong to almost everyone.

The senior producer leaned toward the vocal coach. "He widened the target without widening the song."

The older man barely reacted... he was too busy listening.

Park entered the bridge and softened again, allowing gratitude and sadness to exist in the same voice allowing the Mourner’s Tongue wrap itself around that contradiction with ugly familiarity.

Missing somebody you knew was terrible for you but remembering the mornings that had been genuinely beautiful even when the nights had eventually become unbearable, loving a version of someone who no longer existed while being grateful the person they became had finally walked away.

That touched nerves far beyond what Park could see.

The New Talent Manager felt his jaw tighten around a memory he hadn’t invited into the room. The A&R executive remembered somebody she had not spoken to in eleven years. One composer thought of gambling, another woman thought about a relationship that had lasted two years too long, and somewhere beside them the senior vocal coach abruptly remembered his cigarettes.

Twenty-three years since he’d quit, yet Park’s song dragged him straight back to standing outside a studio at two in the morning, exhausted and freezing, feeling that first pull of smoke settle through his body like the only friend awake with him.

That was when Park reached the chorus again.

{...Here’s to the goodbye that gave me back my name...}

The female producer’s lips moved, she caught herself.

Then she noticed the A&R executive doing the exact same thing.

Neither knew the entire chorus.

Park had barely repeated it, but they had already caught enough of the structure to follow him.

By the final run, three people were quietly mouthing fragments while the New Talent Manager tapped one finger against the desk and the vocal coach’s foot had somehow found the beat beneath the table.

The senior producer who had looked most skeptical earlier was now staring forward with a faint frown because somewhere between the first verse and the bridge, he had stopped judging the song and simply started listening.

Park let the final chorus rise, not by forcing it louder but by allowing it to become larger...

His voice opened into a brilliant upper register without abandoning the warmth underneath, and the camera caught everything that made it unfair: the complete lack of strain around his throat, the small smile entering his face as the song finally reached freedom, black hair falling around his forehead under the stage lights, those strange cognac-gold eyes carrying that faint pink whenever they caught enough light.

Peerless Male Siren carried the voice, Flawless made every technical decision land exactly where it was supposed to, while Perfect Crown quietly ensured that even the unconscious things Park did with his body looked absurdly right on camera. Saint’s Lantern deepened the fascination already gathering around him, Marvelous Halo made looking away increasingly difficult, and Mourner’s Tongue ensured that none of it felt like empty beauty.

The final note disappeared but nobody spoke.

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