[intro - isolated NASA beeps echoing, faint static, silence stretching between them] [glitch crackle fades in, then a slow piano chord under the beeps] [verse 1 - hushed vocal enters as brushes tap in quietly] I’ve held your image in the dark behind my eyes so long But I can’t maintain the orbit, I am not that strong You are a star too bright, a relentless, burning sun And I am just the shadow when the burning has begun [guitar swells like bending starlight, glitch textures ghost the edges] My flesh is tired from the gravity of every small collision My mind begins to see the shore of some forgotten vision And love is just the foaming edge where your light meets my sea A beautiful, ephemeral, and temporary thing to be [chorus - glitch beat locks in, beeps echo faintly beneath the harmony] We built a universe, you and I, a borrowed, perfect light But I have reached the limit of my long and lonesome fight I’m looking for a quiet exit on this everlasting drive I have to step away now, just to feel like I’m alive I need to walk away… From the Chandrasekhar limit… I’ve reached it, baby… [verse 2 - piano shifts timing, guitar slides with ghostly delay, faint radio hiss] Thank you for the supernovas and the nights of raw desire But I am done with walking on your endless field of wire If you’re the radiant day, then I must be the yielding night It’s not about wrong or right, but surviving the light [chorus - distortion rising, drums glitch in and out, NASA beeps cut sharply through] We built a universe, you and I, a borrowed, perfect light But I have reached the limit of my long and lonesome fight I’m looking for a quiet exit on this everlasting drive I have to step away now, just to feel like I’m alive I need to walk away… From the Chandrasekhar limit… I’ve reached it, baby… [outro - instruments decay into static, lone beeps return, vocals breaking apart] I’ve reached the end… I am so sorry… So sorry… [final transmission beep… silence]
