Shadows & Satellites| A Sinister Sister Creative Production

[INTRO] (distant, breathy vocal) Static in the bedroom. Moonlight on the floor. I hear something calling But I don't know what for. (distorted kalimba enters, soft and irregular) Maybe it's you. Maybe it's me. Maybe we're just signals Trying to find frequency. --- [VERSE 1] I've been sleeping with the television glowing, Blue little ghosts on the walls. Every night I swear I'm getting closer, Every morning something falls. I put my heart inside a satellite, Sent it somewhere out of range. Now I'm watching for a blinking light To tell me that it didn't change. I know the stars don't answer. I know the dark won't explain. But I keep looking upward Like the sky knows my name. --- [PRE-CHORUS] I'm falling faster, I'm falling nowhere. Caught between the atmosphere And something out there. If you can hear me, Don't let me disappear. --- [CHORUS] We're just shadows and satellites, Spinning where nobody knows. You keep pulling me into the night, I keep following the glow. I'm falling faster, I'm falling nowhere. You feel a million miles away But I still find you there. If we're only signals in the dark, If we're only sparks passing by, Then leave a little light behind you. I'll follow it tonight. Shadows and satellites. (Satellites.) Shadows and satellites. --- [POST-CHORUS] (distorted kalimba hook) Tick-ka, ting... Tick-ka, ting... Don't disappear. Tick-ka, ting... Tick-ka, ting... I'm still here. --- [VERSE 2] There's a crackle underneath the silence, Something moving through the walls. Maybe it's an old transmission, Maybe I'm imagining it all. I hear your voice inside the static, Feel your shadow cross the room. Funny how a little distance Can make a universe from two. I don't need you to save me. I don't need you to stay. Just give me one small signal So I know I'm not too far away. --- [PRE-CHORUS 2] I'm falling faster, I'm falling nowhere. Caught between the atmosphere And something out there. If you can hear me, Don't let me disappear. --- [CHORUS] We're just shadows and satellites, Spinning where nobody knows. You keep pulling me into the night, I keep following the glow. I'm falling faster, I'm falling nowhere. You feel a million miles away But I still find you there. If we're only signals in the dark, If we're only sparks passing by, Then leave a little light behind you. I'll follow it tonight. Shadows and satellites. --- [RAP / RHYTHMIC BREAKDOWN] (beat strips down to 808, kalimba and fragmented percussion) Static on the line, Little pulse, little sign, Three dots in the dark And I'm reading between the lines. No map, no coordinates, No guarantee, Just a strange little frequency Calling back to me. Maybe we're broken. Maybe we're bright. Maybe being lost Is another kind of flight. I don't need gravity. I don't need a landing. If you're somewhere out there, Then I'm still understanding. (whisper) I got the signal. --- [BRIDGE] (everything drops except ambient pad and distorted kalimba) What if the distance Isn't distance at all? What if every lonely night Was just a room between us? What if I was never falling? What if... I was learning how to orbit? (long pause) I'm falling faster... (kalimba motif returns) I'm falling... Nowhere. --- [FINAL CHORUS] (full production blooms) We're just shadows and satellites, Spinning where nobody knows. You keep pulling me into the night, I keep following the glow. I'm falling faster, I'm falling nowhere. You feel a million miles away But I still find you there. If we're only signals in the dark, If we're only sparks passing by, Then leave a little light behind you. I'll follow it tonight. Shadows and satellites. (Don't disappear.) Shadows and satellites. (I'm still here.) Shadows and satellites. (Can you hear me?) Shadows and satellites. --- [OUTRO] (drums disappear one element at a time) I'm falling faster... I'm falling nowhere... Maybe somewhere isn't a place. Maybe somewhere is a signal. (distorted kalimba becomes increasingly distant) Tick-ka, ting... Tick-ka, ting... Tick... ...ting. (final whispered vocal) Somewhere between the stars... I'm still looking for you.