Both performers set to zero. Read as an unattributed lyric.

Visceral: -40. Jealousy with intent.

A narrator frozen at the exit of a relationship asks whether it is time to go and whether his leaving would destroy her, then turns on the man she has moved toward and declares he has to sabotage.

Route: static_portrait The song is a portrait of a fixed state. The hook, the title concept, and the repeated structural claim are all the same thing: a decision suspended and kept suspended. The harmful material is what that state contains rather than what the song is built to deliver, which is why negative_payload was tested and set aside: the payload lives in the verse and the outro, and the chorus that carries the song's identity is free of it.

(static_portrait) the stasis crosses to the harm axis. The declaration that he has to sabotage frames a destructive response as a compulsion he is subject to, which ratifies it rather than examining it.

Orange 3 fires on the stated inability to release the feelings, held as a fixed condition with no motion toward processing. Orange 9 fires on the rival, who earns an epithet purely for having been chosen. R13 was run on that epithet: strip the profanity and a resentment survives, so it grades, though as grievance rather than as cruelty. Orange 10 fires on the fear that nobody new would tolerate him, which is insecurity held as a standing fact about himself. Orange 7 fires partially: the admission that he should have listened is named once and then dropped, and the outro relocates the outcome onto her leaving. Red 6 was tested on the sabotage line and rejected: R4 governs, because she has already slipped away and the speaker holds no power over her, which places this in the clinging-after-loss case (a) that lands Degraded, not Corrupted. The hook was tested as a harm signal and rejected under R16. Asking whether she would collapse or keep living is a question with two honest sides, and no ego-flex, objectification, or contempt can be quoted from it. Pervasiveness: the payload sits in the verse and outro. Removal test: strike the epithet, the sabotage line, the self-lowering line, and the closing prediction, and the chorus survives whole along with a coherent stuck-heartbreak song. The offending content is not hook-carried. Harm: -38. Pervasiveness: discrete.

Blue 1 flickers on the admission that he ran amok and should have listened, which is a real if momentary look at his own conduct. Blue 8 does not fire cleanly, because the surrounding material is self-pity rather than examination. Blue 4 does not fire; nothing moves between the first line and the last. Transcendence: 6.

The harm axis governs, at -38 against a transcendence read of 6. Placed against -24 and -42. Below -24: that entry is the Decent floor and requires no malice. This song aims an epithet at a third party and declares an intent to wreck something, so it sits under the floor. Weaker than -42: that entry is self-dehumanization saturating a whole song as identity. Here the ratification is a single line, and the surrounding material carries genuine sympathy, a promise broken, the distance between being young and being older, and a fear of being unlovable. Sits between the two, nearer -42, because the malice is explicit and the sabotage is declared rather than merely felt. R4 places the clinging-after-loss case between roughly -25 and -50, and this sits in the middle of that band. Precedents: -24, -42 Center: -34

- Saturation: -1. Chorus stays clean; payload lives in verse and outro. - Resolution: +1. Outro closes on resentful certainty, unredeemed. - Register: -1. Stock breakup figures around one blunt admission. - Reach: -1. A private triangle, no wider frame.

The read lands in Degraded territory, and only violet, blue, or green reads can be contaminated, since orange already calibrates as harmful. The harm axis governs here rather than sitting discrete beneath a higher arc. Contamination: none

Degraded territory, between -24 and -42, because the dominant arc is a suspended departure whose energy goes into resenting the man who replaced him and naming an urge to wreck what she has now.

Reconciliation: aligned

Degraded territory, between -24 and -42, because the dominant arc is a suspended departure whose energy goes into resenting the man who replaced him and naming an urge to wreck what she has now.