Punish

The lead single, and the nearest thing here to a song in the older sense: piano, a voice barely above a whisper, verses that resolve. That familiarity is the trap. The stillness is not peace, it is someone holding very still inside their own guilt.

It circles a single sentence, punishment and love folded into one act, and refuses to say which came first. Sung from inside shame rather than about it, it is the record at its most merciless precisely because it is at its most gentle.