The Pencil Passage

The Pencil Passage is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays a borrowed paperback that can no longer be returned, and the pencil lines a former lover left inside it.
Sorting the bookshelf on a long autumn night, a faint family name on the endpaper, wavering underlines drawn without a ruler, and a white eraser rolled out onto the desk create a still nocturnal scene where two ways of reading the same book slowly reveal the distance between two people.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that neither erases the traces to make the book her own, nor adds her own lines over his, but keeps both the marks and the silence as they are.
Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the track reimagines that era lyrical subtlety through images of autumn nights, secondhand pages, and the quiet air of a room.

She stops only once, at the darkest line, tracing the way he used to read before closing the book.
Then she stands the borrowed volume among her own spines, wavering lines and all, and lets it become part of her autumn library.

Produced by nanayon music.