(4:20 — 120–130 BPM — Glam Rock / Art Rock Breakdown) [Intro — 0:00–0:18] Detuned piano cluster → screeching tenor sax → descending glissando → tape-echo vocal whisper Whispered (British accent): Cut me open… cut me wide… Let the starlight decide… ⸻ [Verse 1 — 0:18–0:54] The chandelier flickers like a dying sun, Her shadow’s on the wall — but she’s already gone, Crystal lips, turning poison on my tongue, She said “love is just a nightmare we pretend is fun.” Velvet claws in the back of my mind, She tore out the future and left the past behind, I keep calling her name in the static and fire, Oh darling, you’re the only one I ever conspired… ⸻ [Pre-Chorus — 0:54–1:10] Piano explodes into jazz chaos, sax shrieks behind the vocal Hold me, haunt me, wreck every dream— Cut through my heart with your starlight guillotine! ⸻ [Chorus — 1:10–1:44] (Stacked falsetto harmonies, cracked theatrical delivery) Starlight guillotine — take her head from my memory! Starlight guillotine — she was my sin, my remedy! She kills me clean — silver and obscene — I’m a ghost still begging at the altar of her scream… Starlight guillotine — don’t set me free! ⸻ [Verse 2 — 1:44–2:22] The hallway dances like a cabaret of fear, Her perfume hangs on the ceiling, whispering “disappear,” She left heaven burning in a cigarette tray, While her footprints in the carpet walked the other way. I claw at the mirror but I’m fading in the steam, Another lost husband in another fever dream, She’s the queen of catastrophe, the monarch of flame, Every prayer I ever muttered only worshipped her name— ⸻ [Pre-Chorus — 2:22–2:39] Rhythm drops — chaotic piano glissando — vocal unhinged Hold me, haunt me, swallow me whole— Tear out the spine of my trembling soul! ⸻ [Chorus — 2:39–3:14] Starlight guillotine — take her head from my memory! Starlight guillotine — then drop the blade on me! I’ll die between — devotion and obscene — Still kissing every echo in the ruins of the dream… Starlight guillotine — don’t set me free! ⸻ [Bridge — 3:14–3:48] (Stripped vocal over broken piano arpeggios + sax moaning) I still hear her laugh in the chapel of night, I still taste her lips when the planets ignite, The priest, the doctor, the bartender agree… She’s a curse in my blood and I won’t ever be free… Guitar screeches → drums slam back in ⸻ [Final Chorus — 3:48–4:15] Starlight guillotine — take her head from my memory! Starlight guillotine — or slice the heart out of me! I’m caught between — tragedy routine— She’s the throne, the crown, the tyrant, and the queen… Starlight guillotine — don’t set me free! ⸻ [Outro — 4:15–4:20] Piano tremolo + sax squeal spiraling upward → sudden cut to silence Whisper (slowed + reversed on tape): I loved you… I love you… I loved you…
