[Instrumental Intro | Cosmic pads, warm Rhodes, sparse felt piano; fluid sub-bass and filtered breakbeats gradually emerge] [Vocal Intro | Close dry British female vocal; spacious, unhurried melody] You lift your hand against the night, A little warmth beneath that light. [Verse 1 | Intimate sung delivery; restrained chopped breaks, soft ghost notes, warm Rhodes; space between phrases] You tell me of the kitchen light, Your mother washing up at night. The plates, the water, ordinary things, The quiet comfort that a memory brings. Beyond the glass, the stars came through. You watched, with questions growing in you. Before you had the words to say, You carried all that sky away. [Pre-Chorus 1 | Bass begins to rise; pads gently widen; drums pull back beneath the vocal] Now feel the breath beneath your hand, A life you’re learning to understand. [Chorus 1 | Expansive future soul; full fluid bass, intricate rolling breaks; spacious sustained vocal melody] Your own universe, There’s so much more to you. The things you’ve never found the words for, The dreams you’re growing into. Underneath this endless sky, Take your time, let wonder through. There’s a lifetime left to listen to, The universe in you. [Instrumental Turnaround | Brief Rhodes response and evolving breakbeat variation] [Verse 2 | Return to close intimate vocal; new syncopated drum details, sparse piano responses between lines] For years, the thoughts went round and round, Whole worlds still waiting for a sound. You’d start to speak, then let them go, Return to what the day would hold. Now songs arrive where silence stayed. I hear the room your voice has made. I know that laugh, I know those eyes, There’s more of you here every time. [Pre-Chorus 2 | Warm harmonic lift; brief rhythmic subtraction; leave the last phrase exposed] I thought I knew the view by heart. You show me where the stories start. [Chorus 2 | Return to chorus melody; wider pads, melodic sub-bass, evolving breaks; vocal remains clear and unhurried] Your own universe, There’s so much more to you. The things I’m only learning how to hear, The dreams you’re growing into. Underneath this endless sky, Take your time, I’m listening to The life behind the face I knew, The universe in you. [Bridge | Strip back to felt piano, Rhodes and close vocal; suspended cosmic atmosphere; percussion gradually returns] Ancient dust in living hands, So much we barely understand. We wait for distant light to show A little more than we could know. You share a thought you’ve held so long, I stop to listen; you carry on. And something I’d stopped dreaming of Begins to wake as you open up. [Breakdown | Drums drop out; sing both phrases with space between them; low bass and suspended Rhodes] Your own universe. You open universes. [Final Chorus | Full cosmic drumfunk return; expansive harmony and selective vocal doubling; stretch the opening phrase naturally] You open universes, In ways you never knew. The voice you’re finding wakes a part of me, A dream that I can step into. Underneath this endless sky, I see further here with you. There’s a world beyond the one I knew, The universe in you. [Outro | Breakbeats recede; intimate sung delivery over Rhodes and sparse piano] Your own universe. You open universes. Stay a little. Tell me more. What were you dreaming of before? [Instrumental Outro | Warm Rhodes and cosmic pads linger; fluid bass resolves; gentle fade]
