[Intro: reversed choir, vinyl crackle] (one star... one sky...) (choose-choose-choose) [Deep 808 pulse] [Verse 1: melodic rhythmic flow] I never meant to build a universe Where every orbit makes the others hurt A thousand little lights inside my chest How do I tell one it outshines the rest? (shine-shine-shine) [Pre-Chorus: rising falsetto] They say my heart should know its place But I see galaxies in every face And I can feel the heavens shake (shake-shake-break) [Chorus: soaring layered vocals] If I choose one, I lose the sky Watch a thousand little stars go blind Every love is real, every goodbye Leaves another constellation dying (fall apart, fall apart) I could hold one close tonight But who will catch the falling lights? [Drop: chopped vocals, distorted cowbell] (one-one-one) (gone-gone-gone) (star-star, scar-scar) (bmm-ka-tss, bmm-ka-tss) [Sliding 808, frantic breakbeat] [Verse 2: double-time, vocal doubles] I rehearse the words a thousand times Every ending feels like doing crimes I see their faces when I close my eyes Every future ends in different cries (no-no-no) [Bridge: beat cuts, fragile whisper] And if I never choose at all I still become the cause they fall No harmless road, no clean escape Just different hearts that I might break [Final Chorus: falsetto, halftime bass] If I choose one, I lose the sky Watch a thousand little stars go blind Could I live beneath a single light Knowing all the ones I left behind? (behind-behind) I could hold one close tonight But who will catch the falling lights? [Outro: pitch-down, tape stop] (one star... no sky...) [Silence]
