[Intro — tape hiss, distant waves, tremolo guitar] [Woman, whispered] Somewhere between the water and the sky... [Man, low and close] I saw the moon put on a disguise. [Sample, half-speed] "Are you certain you're awake?" [Woman] Not even slightly. [Verse 1 — deep male, intimate, unhurried] I took a wrong turn out of yesterday, Found a little seaside town that the maps erased. There was a cinema showing films of tomorrow, People paid with their laughter, took their change in sorrow. A girl sold bottled silence by the harbour wall, Said, "It's cheaper than the answers, and it lasts through the fall." And a man in a suit with a sunflower head Said, "The world is only heavy when you carry what it said." Then the tide rolled in like a slow cassette, Playing back every word I was trying to forget. [Pre-Chorus — female, breathy, strings rising] Take my hand where the shadows glow, Where the quiet things are free to grow. If the night has a heart, let it beat in blue; I don't need a map if I'm lost with you. [Chorus — female lead, male low harmony] Drift with me through the velvet blue, Past the place where the old stars bloom. We don't have to be what the daylight knew, Let the whole world fade for an hour or two. Oh, we're weightless, we're strange, we're beautifully new, Little sparks in an ocean of velvet blue. If reality calls, let it ring right through; There's a different kind of truth in the velvet blue. [Instrumental — fuzzy repeating guitar, warm bass, brushed breakbeat, bowed strings] [Chopped tape voice] "Please remain exactly where you aren't." [Short laugh, reversed] [Verse 2 — male, rhythmic spoken-sung] There was a ballroom underneath the sea, With a clock that kept the time in a minor key. Octopus waiters in immaculate white Served cups of déjà vu to the ghosts of Friday night. I asked her, "Is this heaven?" She said, "It's just a room, Where we keep the things we couldn't bear to lose." Then she pointed at a doorway full of butterflies, And I watched my younger self walk out the other side. He said, "You look exhausted from pretending you're okay." I said, "I've been collecting little storms along the way." [Pre-Chorus — voices crossing like echoes] [Female] Take my hand where the shadows glow, [Male] Where the quiet things are free to grow. [Both] If the night has a heart, let it beat in blue; I don't need a map if I'm lost with you. [Chorus — wider, warmer] Drift with me through the velvet blue, Past the place where the old stars bloom. We don't have to be what the daylight knew, Let the whole world fade for an hour or two. Oh, we're weightless, we're strange, we're beautifully new, Little sparks in an ocean of velvet blue. If reality calls, let it ring right through; There's a different kind of truth in the velvet blue. [Breakdown — percussion disappears; underwater Rhodes, strings, reversed voices] [Sample, crackling radio] "Attention, passengers: the destination has been misplaced." [Male, barely speaking] Maybe I spent my whole life searching for a door, When the room I was escaping was the room I built before. [Female, floating] You can leave the light on. You can leave the fear behind. Not every broken compass Means the stars are hard to find. [Long instrumental passage — guitar coils around a descending string melody] [Verse 3 — intimate male, steady hypnotic groove returns] When the morning came, the ocean climbed the stairs, Laid a thousand little galaxies across the kitchen chairs. I met the sunflower gentleman beside the corner store; He said, "You found the basement?" I said, "I don't need it anymore." So I walked into the daylight with the salt upon my skin, Not a wiser kind of person, just more willing to begin. There are mysteries worth keeping, there are questions you can hold, There are parts of you that blossom when you loosen your control. And the sea kept softly singing through the traffic in my head; I could hear the living rhythm underneath the things I dread. Not a cure and not an ending, not a miracle on cue, Just a little room for wonder in the ordinary blue. [Final Chorus — female soaring gently, male answering; not a dance drop] Drift with me through the velvet blue, Past the place where the old stars bloom. We don't have to be what the daylight knew, Let the whole world fade for an hour or two. Oh, we're weightless, we're strange, we're beautifully new, Little sparks in an ocean of velvet blue. If reality calls, let it ring right through; There's a different kind of truth in the velvet blue. [Outro — guitars and strings dissolving into surf] [Male] Was any of it real? [Female, smiling] Does it matter if it helped you feel? [Sample, distant] "The ocean is currently dreaming." [Female, fading] Meet me where the shadows glow... [Instrumental fade — tape warble, sea hiss, one last guitar note]
