[Intro – low choral hum, soft ticking echo] The veil will rise, the stars align, The masquerade keeps time. ⸻ [Verse 1 – calm, expansive tone] Glass and breath, beginning’s twin, The hour folds, the dance begins. Light remembers, shadows climb, The masquerade keeps time. No deceit, no grand disguise, Just truth rehearsed in other eyes. Every heart repeats the rhyme— The masquerade keeps time. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus – strings swell like inhaling air] We turn the wheel, we trace the sign, The end repeats by design. ⸻ [Chorus – slow, celestial crescendo] The veil will rise, the stars align, The masquerade keeps time. Every soul, a spark divine, Returns to rhythm, rhyme, and sign. The end begins where forms combine— The masquerade keeps time. ⸻ [Verse 2 – whispered reverence] Dust to motion, thought to flame, All that differs bears one name. Silence hums through every line— The masquerade keeps time. Mirrors tremble, worlds recall, Nothing’s lost, it’s just the fall. Echoes bend but still define— The masquerade keeps time. ⸻ [Bridge – breathy, intimate, as if the universe speaks] Beyond the mask, beyond the role, The rhythm writes the shape of soul. No one leaves, they just realign— The masquerade keeps time. ⸻ [Final Chorus – luminous, orchestral rise] The veil will rise, the stars align, The masquerade keeps time. Every truth, both yours and mine, Resounds through chords of grand design. What ends in loss returns sublime— The masquerade keeps time. ⸻ [Outro – faint ticking fades into string resonance] Breathe again. Begin again. The masquerade keeps time.
