🎵 "Green Light (Across the Bay)" (Inspired by The Great Gatsby) [Verse 1] You built a world of silk and gold A fragile dream, a story told Of love that once was almost real Of something time could never heal She danced behind a velvet screen A perfect ghost in every scene But you were reaching through the haze Chasing stars across the waves [Pre-Chorus] And every night you’d stand and stare At something that was never there [Chorus] That green light across the bay Always just a breath away You called it hope, you called it fate But some dreams just hesitate It wasn’t love, it wasn’t true Just a version lost in you You reached, but it slipped away That green light across the bay [Verse 2] You threw your parties, wore your mask But none of them could bring her back The past, you said, could be undone If you just ran hard enough to it, son But time’s a river, cold and fast And no one gets to swim upstream back to the past [Pre-Chorus] You saw the light and not the lie You kissed a dream and watched it die [Chorus] That green light across the bay Always just a breath away You called it hope, you called it fate But some dreams just hesitate It wasn’t love, it wasn’t true Just a version lost in you You reached, but it slipped away That green light across the bay [Bridge – spoken/soft singing] It was never her, not really Just the shimmer of “maybe” We want what we can’t define A promise drawn in neon lines [Final Chorus – powerful, aching] That green light across the bay Still flickers though you’ve gone away A symbol, soft and bittersweet Of all the things we never keep It wasn’t real, but still it stayed A dream we chase, a debt unpaid Forever just a breath away… That green light across the bay [Outro – fading echo] The green light… the green light… Still shining… but never right.
