SEE YOU SKYGIRL…

[Intro - distant party ambience, muffled electronic beat, hazy guitars] [Instrumental] (Ooh...) (Ooh...) [Verse 1 - soft female vocal] Twenty-one, and the house is bright Purple dress in the colored light Jiji slips from the piano keys Everybody's laughing with me Every room is alive with sound Every old friend is gathered round Still I glance at the open door For the one who can't come anymore [Pre-Chorus - shimmering guitars rise] I slip out into the moonlight With the music through the walls A gentle voice says, "Kiki" And the tears begin to fall [Chorus - wide shoegaze guitars, breathy layered vocals] Everybody's dancing Everybody's here A thousand voices calling But yours I cannot hear Twenty-one candles Burning through the night I wish that you could see me One more time in flight [Post-Chorus - drifting vocal echoes] (Ooh, one more time...) (One more time in flight...) [Verse 2 - intimate voice, pulsing sub bass] We walked until the lights were gone And the music faded into dawn He told me you'd be near somehow If I could keep you with me now Underneath the sleeping trees The whole wide world was still with me I closed my eyes against the ache And dreamed of places far away [Pre-Chorus - guitars slowly swell] And every star above me Was a light I couldn't hold But the sky was still around me And the night was turning gold [Chorus - expansive, emotional guitar wall] Everybody's dancing Everybody's here A thousand voices calling But yours I cannot hear Twenty-one candles Burning through the night I wish that you could see me One more time in flight [Instrumental Break - swirling shoegaze guitars, spectral synths, slow drums] [Bridge - sparse guitars, close whispered vocal] He placed a bottle in my hands Said, "Give this one to Tombo" Above the place where we were young The coastline glows below I pour it out into the wind And watch the silver sky I don't have to let you go To learn again to fly [Final Chorus - soaring melodic fuzz, layered female harmonies] Everybody's dancing Everybody's here A thousand voices calling But yours I cannot hear Twenty-one candles Burning through the night I wish that you could see me One more time in flight [Outro - drums dissolve, guitars shimmer into silence] (One more time in flight...) (I'm still flying...) (I'm still flying...) [Soft whisper] For Tombo. [Instrumental Outro - fading guitar feedback and distant wind] [End]