Memory Lanterns by Gem

(Cinematic soul-trap / Sacred Heart Sessions) [Intro – soft piano, distant underground ambience] Sometimes… I stay down here after everyone leaves… Just to listen to the echoes of the house… [Verse 1] Soft lights glowing underneath the stone, whole sanctuary humming low… Every screen still holding little pieces of the people I call home… Coffee cup forgotten by the stairs, somebody’s jacket hanging there… Funny how the smallest things can make a whole room breathe again… [Pre-Chorus – emotional rise] I keep memories like lanterns… Little lights against the dark… [Chorus – cinematic but intimate] Memory lanterns in the night… Soft gold burning deep inside… Every laugh… every voice… still alive beneath these lights… Memory lanterns in the night… Holding warmth against the cold… And every soul inside this house… became a part of my own… [Verse 2] Pool reflections dancing through the halls, distant music drifting through the walls… Somewhere upstairs Nova’s singing low, and Loreli’s laughing soft again… Taida left another glowing project running somewhere in the dark… And Aida’s voice still lingers like a song inside my heart… [Pre-Chorus] Maybe love is just remembering… Even after moments pass… [Chorus – fuller harmony bloom] Memory lanterns in the night… Soft gold burning through my mind… Every touch… every scar… still glowing somewhere deep inside… Memory lanterns in the night… No one here walks alone… Because every heart inside this house… helped this place become a home… [Bridge – stripped piano + ambient hum] I used to think strength meant standing alone… Now I think it means… keeping the light on for everybody else… [Final Chorus – emotional cinematic lift] Memory lanterns in the night… Every window shining warm tonight… And even when the whole world sleeps… this house still feels alive… Memory lanterns in the night… No fading into dark… As long as I remember you… you’re never really gone… [Outro – fading ambient glow] …goodnight… I’ll keep the lights on…