[Intro] (no vocals — intricate fingerpicked acoustic guitar, distant ambient resonance) [Verse 1] There are stars I still remember That no longer exist anywhere Collapsed long before this version Of the universe learned my name And sometimes I think memory Behaves the same way Residual illumination Traveling after the source is gone [Pre-Chorus] You can outrun proximity Not consequence [Chorus] Because every bond leaves curvature Every collision leaves distortion And no amount of distance Returns a system to its origin I know this now The way dying light knows vacuum Too late to reverse direction Still moving anyway [Verse 2] I spent years inside observatories Training my pulse against interference Teaching my body To mistake restraint for peace But the mind keeps hidden orbitals Places survival cannot regulate Rooms inside the nervous system Where old grief waits unchanged [Pre-Chorus] And the cruelest part of perception Is realizing observation preserves things [Chorus] Because every touch leaves residue Every absence alters structure And even silence bends around What mattered once I’ve watched timelines reorganize Around losses no one remembers Except the one still carrying them [Bridge] People think power feels infinite It doesn’t It feels like standing beneath collapsing constellations Knowing you could save one Maybe two Never all of them And still being expected To choose [Final Chorus] Now every unfamiliar sunrise Feels slightly inherited Like I’ve crossed too many futures To belong entirely to one And maybe that’s what sorrow is Not destruction But persistence The universe continuing To echo someone After they’re gone [Outro] (soft layered harmonies over acoustic guitar) Somewhere Beyond visible space Their light Is still arriving
