[Intro — distant glowing pad, single reversed synth breath] Close your eyes... We don't have to stay here. [Verse 1 — fragile, almost weightless] The ceiling disappears when the room goes blue Every little shadow turns into something new I can hear tomorrow waiting down the hall But tonight I'm somewhere it can't reach at all Your voice becomes a colour moving through the air And for a little while I forget we're going anywhere [Arpeggio begins — very soft] [Pre-Chorus] If I hold this moment will it hold me too? If the world keeps turning can I stay here next to you? [Chorus — FIRST RELEASE] Take me somewhere without time Where the morning can't find us Where the light just bends and shines and leaves the world behind us Let the whole room disappear Let the edges lose their shape If I can stay inside this feeling I don't need to wake [Instrumental bloom — shimmering arpeggios widen] [Verse 2 — pulse stronger, vocal still delicate] Every memory glows brighter when it's gone Like a city in the distance after everyone moves on I keep reaching backwards through the colours in my mind For the version of forever we were never meant to find And I know nothing stays That's what makes it beautiful [Pulse deepens — synth layers gradually stack] [Pre-Chorus] So don't say it's over while it's still alive Let me have this one illusion just a little more tonight [Bridge — voice floating over Rhodes-like synth and reverse swells] Maybe we were only passing through each other Maybe that's enough Maybe every perfect thing was always made to vanish when we touch [Brief crystalline synth lead] [Build — continuous crescendo] Stay... Stay in the light Stay in the colour Stay till the edges start falling away [Arpeggios accelerate and spread wider] [Final Chorus — SECOND / FINAL RELEASE] Take me somewhere without time Where the morning can't find us Where the stars are close enough to wrap their light around us Let the whole world disappear Let the years dissolve away If I can stay inside this feeling I don't need another place Take me somewhere without time Where nothing has to end Where I can lose myself completely and still find you again [Maximum luminous crescendo — vast pads, soaring synth harmonies, no drums] [All music begins collapsing rapidly] [Outro — one exposed fragile falsetto] If I wake... will you still be there? [Unresolved glowing synth chord] [FINAL — NO REPEAT — HARD STOP]
