I have no idea how to finish this song and I've been sitting on it and keep coming back to it since 2019

I should just fade it out somehow

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I haven't written many songs, and none fully completed, but one that was the most developed I liked the unusual ending I, well, ended up with. Within it, It had a phrase that would build then drop, do a return, then repeat and repeat. I knew I wanted to end it so I began just very slightly altering the phrase's timing each cycle, which to the ear foretold the ending was near. After several cycles, it was so pronounced you just knew it when it was the end.

DDonde · 31-35, M

@DffrntDrmmr Like a slowdown? Or on a different beat?

DffrntDrmmr · M

@DDonde Just before the drop (which led downward to a flurry of notes that led to build again) I held the high note slightly longer, adding a slight more pause each time, but made up for by quicker descending notes making it seem more dramatic each cycle. So while within the phrase the timing was changing the whole phrase remained in beat. I'm finding it hard to explain because it's an ear thing. I just knew I wanted to suggest the end was coming and the increasing drama led to a natural finality.