One Star, No Sky

[Intro: reversed choir, vinyl crackle]
(one star... one sky...)
(choose-choose-choose)
[Deep 808 pulse]

[Verse 1: melodic rhythmic flow]
I never meant to build a universe
Where every orbit makes the others hurt
A thousand little lights inside my chest
How do I tell one it outshines the rest?
(shine-shine-shine)

[Pre-Chorus: rising falsetto]
They say my heart should know its place
But I see galaxies in every face
And I can feel the heavens shake
(shake-shake-break)

[Chorus: soaring layered vocals]
If I choose one, I lose the sky
Watch a thousand little stars go blind
Every love is real, every goodbye
Leaves another constellation dying
(fall apart, fall apart)
I could hold one close tonight
But who will catch the falling lights?

[Drop: chopped vocals, distorted cowbell]
(one-one-one) (gone-gone-gone)
(star-star, scar-scar)
(bmm-ka-tss, bmm-ka-tss)
[Sliding 808, frantic breakbeat]

[Verse 2: double-time, vocal doubles]
I rehearse the words a thousand times
Every ending feels like doing crimes
I see their faces when I close my eyes
Every future ends in different cries
(no-no-no)

[Bridge: beat cuts, fragile whisper]
And if I never choose at all
I still become the cause they fall
No harmless road, no clean escape
Just different hearts that I might break

[Final Chorus: falsetto, halftime bass]
If I choose one, I lose the sky
Watch a thousand little stars go blind
Could I live beneath a single light
Knowing all the ones I left behind?
(behind-behind)
I could hold one close tonight
But who will catch the falling lights?

[Outro: pitch-down, tape stop]
(one star... no sky...)
[Silence]