[Verse 1] We tasted lightning in a paper cup, Laughing while the sky was opening up. We ran through doors that didn’t have a frame, And every room was screaming out our name. [Verse 2] We learned the map by following the roar, We learned the cost by stepping on the floor. Now every camera wants a piece of skin, And every smile is how the war begins. [Pre-Chorus] When the crowd is a wave, you can’t see the tide, You just learn how to float, and you pray you don’t sink inside. [Chorus] It’s starfall—after the applause, When the glitter turns to gravity and nobody calls. Starfall—when the silence hits, And the crown feels like a collar and it tightens as it fits. Hold me in the afterglow, Tell me I’m not just a moment in a show. [Instrumental Break] (Synth lead answers guitar; bass slides; drums build) [Verse 3] Hotel walls like a soft white cage, Another autograph, another gilded page. The mirror says, “You’re shining—prove it now,” But it never shows the bruises under how. [Pre-Chorus] And I can’t tell if I’m alive or just loud, When my heartbeat keeps time with a faceless crowd. [Chorus] It’s starfall—after the applause, When the glitter turns to gravity and nobody calls. Starfall—when the silence hits, And the crown feels like a collar and it tightens as it fits. Hold me in the afterglow, Tell me I’m not just a moment in a show. [Bridge – half-time, spacious] If we are constellations, why do we feel so alone? If we are made of music, why does it turn to stone? I hear the screaming miles away, like a sea behind a wall— And I wonder if the sky can break, and still be called a sky at all. [Instrumental Jam – long] (Guitar solo → synth solo → bass feature; slow rise back to full tempo) [Final Chorus] It’s starfall—after the applause, When the glitter turns to gravity and nobody calls. Starfall—when the silence hits, And the crown feels like a collar and it tightens as it fits. Hold me in the afterglow, (three-part harmony) Tell me I’m not just a moment… Tell me I’m not just a moment… Tell me I’m not just a moment in a show. [Outro] (whispered harmony) After the applause… after the applause…
