[Intro] [Delicate concert harp arpeggios and bowed glass celesta] [Single pizzicato cello note echoing over water] [Verse 1] Pale fruit heavy on the bough, Cold light pooled on marble stone. You caught me turning toward you now, Where the night-blooms open all alone. Silver ripples break the glass, Lotus sleeping in the dark. Every shadow that we pass Leaves a quiet, luminous mark. [Pre-Chorus] [Solo viola enters, rising counter-melody] Wait— Don't wake the garden yet. Let the silk fall from my shoulder, While the air grows colder. [Chorus] [Lush chamber strings bloom, layered vocal harmonies] Stay beneath the glass-domed sky, Where the white moon hangs suspended. Watch the gilded water sigh, Like a dream that never ended. Hold your breath and look at me— Through the leaves of jade and pearl, We are everything we see At the edge of a quiet world. [Verse 2] [Arrangement strips back to harp, pizzicato cello, and intimate vocal] Lanterns floating in the deep, Gold against the mountain haze. Promises are hard to keep When you lose yourself inside the maze. Drops of dew upon the rind, Petals drifting to the floor. Leave the waking world behind, Lock the conservatory door. [Pre-Chorus] [Cello bows a deep sustained pedal tone] Wait— Don't break the mirror now. Let the ribbon slowly unravel, Where the soft echoes travel. [Chorus] [Full baroque chamber swell, soaring soprano descant] Stay beneath the glass-domed sky, Where the white moon hangs suspended. Watch the gilded water sigh, Like a dream that never ended. Hold your breath and look at me— Through the leaves of jade and pearl, We are everything we see At the edge of a quiet world. [Bridge] [Music fractures into sparse, echoing celesta and overlapping vocal canons] (Turn around, turn around) In the pale green light. (Not a sound, not a sound) In the vaulted night. [Sudden harmonic climb, bowed strings trembling] One look back before the dawn— Before the silver warmth is gone. [Chorus] [Maximum harmonic radiance, deep warm bass pulse under sweeping harp and strings] Stay beneath the glass-domed sky, Where the white moon hangs suspended. Watch the gilded water sigh, Like a dream that never ended. Hold your breath and look at me— Through the leaves of jade and pearl, We are everything we see At the edge of a quiet world. [Outro] [Strings fade away, leaving isolated harp and distant water resonance] Pale fruit heavy on the bough... Keep the silence with me now. [Final lingering celesta chord] [End]
