[INTRO – empty festival grounds, distant wind, distorted childlike voice] [Distorted childlike spoken] Where do the lights go when the night is over? Do they disappear? Or do they follow us home? [VERSE 1 – male melodic, intimate] The road is quiet behind the stage. The sky has turned from black to grey. Paper cups and tired shoes, little signs of what we knew. The gates are open, people leave. Some are laughing, some can’t speak. We turn around one final time. The stage is dark, but something shines. [PRE-HOOK – warm rising synth] The music stopped outside us. But inside, it carries on. [FEMALE HOOK – emotional, cinematic] When the lights go home, they leave a fire in our souls. When the final song is over, something beautiful still glows. We may leave the night behind us, but we never leave alone. We carry every colour when the lights go home. [VERSE 2 – male rhythmic, gradually rising] Wristband hanging from my hand, dust from another promised land. A tired smile, a final wave, a hundred memories we saved. The highway waits, the city calls, morning sunlight finds us all. Nobody speaks for several miles. We hear the silence and start to smile. Because somewhere underneath the road, the bass still moves inside our bones. The festival is out of sight. But we are carrying all the light. [FEMALE HOOK – larger] When the lights go home, they leave a fire in our souls. When the final song is over, something beautiful still glows. We may leave the night behind us, but we never leave alone. We carry every colour when the lights go home. [BREAKDOWN – almost complete silence] [Male spoken] The festival ended. The stages went dark. The crowd disappeared. But something inside us… never went home. [Distorted childlike whispered] Listen. [Very distant bass pulse] [Male whispered] It is still there. [FINAL BUILD – melody slowly returns, heartbeat bass underneath] EVERY LIGHT! EVERY FACE! EVERY MOMENT IN THIS PLACE! EVERY DROP! EVERY SONG! EVERY MEMORY MOVES ALONG! WE LEAVE! WE GROW! BUT THE MUSIC DOESN’T GO! [Melody appears to resolve] [FALSE END – several seconds of silence] [Childlike whispered] One more time. [UNEXPECTED FINAL DROP – explosive festival techno, euphoric lead, distorted synths] WHEN THE LIGHTS GO HOME! WE KEEP BURNING! WHEN THE NIGHT LETS GO! WE KEEP TURNING! ONE HEART! ONE SOUL! UNTOLD ONE! WE CARRY IT HOME! [SECOND ESCALATION – wider synths, heavier bass] THE STAGE GOES DARK! THE FIRE STAYS! THE NIGHT LIVES ON IN A THOUSAND WAYS! WHEN THE LIGHTS GO HOME! WHEN THE LIGHTS GO HOME! [OUTRO – soft synth melody and road ambience] [Male spoken] The festival ended. We didn’t. [Distorted childlike whispered] See you next year.
