[Verse 1 — male falsetto lead, straining] The cord went slack — I did not fall. I dug my fists into the dark and hauled. Below me, Earth's a dying coal. I count each breath. I keep it whole. [Verse 2 — tension rising] The cold leans in to take my name. I bite it back. I stay the same. The vacuum pulls — I pull, I claw — ten thousand miles, and still I hold. [Build-up — riser] Not weightless — no. I'm holding on. Every fiber strung against the long dark. [Drop — falsetto wall over the clang] Flesh and bone against the vacuum's pull, I claw the dark, my lungs still full. No up, no down — just grip and light — a speck of starlight, holding the fight. [Breakdown — radio, sparse, static] (Astronaut — falsetto) Ground control — ground control — I'm still here. (Ground Control — female, faint, radio-filtered) We hear you — faint — hold — hold on — (Astronaut) I'm past the edge, and I won't let go. (Ground Control — breaking up, glitching) Keep — keep breathing — we're — los— (static swells, bit-crushed) (Astronaut — alone, defiant) No echo answers. So I answer back. I am the signal now. I hold the black. [Final drop — full wall, heaviest] Flesh and bone against the endless night, I do not drift — I burn — I fight. And if the cold takes all I was — a speck of starlight becomes a speck of stardust. [Outro — glitch, defiant, fading on a fought breath] still — burning — still — still — burning — still — [dead-silence hard-stop]
