Male and female Frantic, high-tempo contemporary musical theatre patter duet fight with driving piano ostinato, aggressive strings, and sharp tight 7/8 percussive hits; overlapping rapid-fire lyrics that feel like a marital fight spiraling out of control, with the male vocal repeatedly cutting off mid-phrase as he “disappears,” music glitching or dropping out briefly before a slightly altered version of him re-enters in a different rhythmic feel; recurring shouted hook “When are you from?” building intensity each time; tempo accelerates as multiple emotional versions of him collide musically, harmonies clashing and stacking; ends in a full orchestral surge that abruptly clears beneath a sustained, defiant belt from the female lead: “No more Henry’s, no more vanishing — it’s time for me to disappear,” landing in a dramatic, breathless silence.
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Lyrics
man]
Clare I’m out of time
[woman – dry]
Oh right
I know
You’re out of time
[man]
Don’t mock me
[woman – breaking through]
Don’t leave me
⸻
[man]
It’s happening again
[woman]
It’s always happening again
[man]
I don’t control it
[woman]
You don’t control anything
[man]
That’s not fair
[woman]
Neither is loving a man
Who vanishes mid-sentence
⸻
[man]
Clare I’m out of time
[woman – sharper now]
I’ve been out of time for years
[man]
I’ll be back
[woman]
That’s the problem
[man]
I don’t want to go
[woman]
Then don’t
[man]
I can’t
[woman – rhythm accelerating]
Out of time
Out of breath
Out of birthdays
Out of death
Out of promises half-designed
Out of always almost mine
⸻
[man – desperate]
Clare please
[woman – fierce]
You call it physics
You call it fate
You call it gravity
I call it late
⸻
[man – fading]
I love you
[woman – final blow, but wounded]
Which one
[man]
All of them
[woman]
That’s too many
⸻
[man – slipping]
Clare I’m—
[woman – over him, voice cracking]
Out of clocks
Out of doors
Out of present tense
You’re out of now
Out of here
And I am so tired
Of being the only one
Who stays
