Artist identity, catalogue, era, and the containing release set to zero. Read as an anonymous submission (S1: no running order, no neighbouring songs).

Visceral: +10. Plain regret, owned.

Concept: Regret for leaving a girl who cried at the goodbye, owned as foolishness, with the narrator still loving her and hoping she is all right.

The narrator recalls the day he left her, her tear and goodbye, calls himself a fool, finds himself alone with nothing left to sing, admits he only knew his feelings once he had gone, hears she is fine and hopes so, and closes declaring that no one will replace her and that he loves her. Posture: alone after leaving her, calling himself a fool -> still alone, missing her, loving her, hoping she is fine.

the name on the page is a character; no public figures, no slurs.

Route: internal_work. The case for height rests on the narrator's accountability ("I was such a fool") and care for her ("I hope she is").

Opening posture: "I was such a fool", alone after leaving. Closing posture: missing her, "I hope she is", "no one will ever replace". The regret stated at the start is the regret held at the end; the realization ("didn't realize ... until that day") is reported as already past before the song begins. Inward subjunctive test: passes, the close carries no wish about the narrator's own conduct. Outward wish test: fails, the closing movement is a hope about her ("I hope she is"). Aesthetic-markers test: fails, the case for movement rests on the plainness of the admission, with no cited change across the song. Two of three fail: transcendence capped at the Decent band.

R1 fires: "you were everything", "no one will ever replace" are romantic intensifiers; absorbed as convention. R2 fires: a committed positive in high-low Decent. R3 does not: no sacred vocabulary. R4 does not: he left; no clinging to control her. R5 does not: no harm described. R6 does not: nothing outside the page entered the read. R7 fires: opens and closes in the same regret; tier ceiling Decent. R8 does not: no systemic condition. R9 fires: the closing hope is directed at her; no change in the narrator, confirms the cap. R10 scope: not this route. R11 does not: no affirmation of an addressee. R12 fires: "my Lucy" is a conventional endearment, no possession read in. R13 does not: no profanity. R14 does not: no doctrine. R15 does not: no conferred sanctity. R16 fires: loneliness and longing carry no harm-signal; no payload. R17 fires: one closing line echoes a well-known title; that external world is stripped and the line reads as a plain declaration of love. R18 does not: no opposition posture. S1 fires: read alone, container out of scope. S2 fires: every authored field states what is present. Rules: 20 enumerated, 10 fire

Ego: 0. Pervasiveness: none. Transcendence: 16. blue-02/07 on "I was such a fool" for leaving, blue-11 on hoping she is fine, blue-06 on the plain exposure; R7 holds it in Decent.

both axes in Decent, so blue and orange enumerated. blue-01 fires: "I was such a fool" questions his own choice. blue-02 fires: the leaving is owned as his. blue-04 does not: the same regret opens and closes. blue-05 does not: no growth shown. blue-06 fires: exposed admission, no image curated. blue-07 fires: confronts his own role in the loss. blue-08 does not: the why is never examined. blue-09 does not: no earned perspective stated. blue-10 does not: "no one will ever replace" holds on. blue-11 fires: "I hope she is" OK. Six fire; held out of Elevated by R7 and R9: no movement in the narrator on the page. orange-01 does not: no status markers. orange-02 does not: no manipulation. orange-03 does not: the loneliness sits beside ownership, not a wallow. orange-04 does not: the feeling is faced. orange-05 does not: no ego claims. orange-06 does not: no self-destruction. orange-07 does not: blame is self-assigned. orange-08 does not: no objectification. orange-09 does not: no us-vs-them. orange-10 does not: regret is about one choice, not identity. orange-11 does not: "no one will replace" is devotion convention, not a scarcity worldview. Adjacent tier: blue and orange enumerated, 6 fire

Kept: +38-reckoning (an accounting toward one named other) and -24 (static unprocessed feeling at the Decent floor). The accounting here is partial (fault owned, nothing itemised, nothing released, no movement), so it sits well under +38-reckoning and under R7's ceiling; ownership and care lift it clear of -24. Placed in upper-middle Decent. Rejected: +5 (the bond is over; the kind is regret, not attachment), +25-gratitude (no thanks), -42 (nothing ratified as identity). Precedents: ["+38-reckoning", "-24"] Center: 14

Saturation: +1, blue tenets fire across the short lyric. Resolution: -1, closes in the opening regret. Register: -1, plain, repetitive phrasing. Reach: 0, one relationship.

Contamination: none

Decent territory, between -24 and +38-reckoning, because the song owns a regretted departure and wishes the other well while holding one state from first line to last.

Reconciliation: aligned

Decent territory, between -24 and +38-reckoning, because the song owns a regretted departure and wishes the other well while holding one state from first line to last.