Route: negative_payload. This is a heartbreak song whose sincere emotional core carries a pervasive, quotable down-payload, so it routes on the payload, not on the ache. Frame. The narrator says a genuine goodbye to one specific woman he was serious about and admits his own heart is broken. That sincerity toward a single beloved is real and keeps this off the bottom of the band. There is no partner-tally, no roster, no contempt for the woman; the feeling is directed and earnest. The payload (pervasive, R16 down-signals are quotable, not manufactured): - Lover-ego / prowess (orange 5). The reminiscing repeatedly boasts that no one satisfies her the way he did and frames his own performance as proof of the bond. This recurs across both verses; it is not a single aside. - Body-focus objectification (orange 8). Much of the memory is his sexual history with her, the physical craving stated plainly and returned to, the partner recalled largely through what her body meant to his self-image. - Luxury / status markers (orange 1). The longing is wrapped in private-jet encounters, a Caribbean beach trip, designer clothing, and shopping outings, giving the nostalgia a glossy, aspirational texture and tying the attachment to possession. These three threads run through the whole song, hence PERVASIVE rather than a fenced verse. Transcendence: 0. Nothing lifts. The mapped-out future (picking names for children) and the wish that she fares well are tender, but they serve the same self-flattering replay, not any rise. Placement. Precedents -28 and -45. The song sits between them, closer to -28: the feeling toward one specific beloved is genuine and there is no partner-tally or predatory frame that would pull it toward -45. But the pervasive ego + objectification + status payload keeps it well below a clean heartbreak read. Center -32. Vernier sat=-1 res=1 reg=-1 reach=0. Contaminated: false. This is a harm-axis song; a pervasive payload governs the read directly, so the contamination mechanism does not apply. Dogma: false. Lands Degraded (orange), mid band. Charge -32.

Route: negative_payload. This is a heartbreak song whose sincere emotional core carries a pervasive, quotable down-payload, so it routes on the payload, not on the ache.