Garden of Becoming (initiate Ascension)

🎙️ SPOKEN INTRO (under first piano note — breath-close) (soft… almost a whisper at the ear) “You’ve been here before…” “…you just couldn’t see it.” (faint inhale) “Close your starlit eyes…” 🎤 FULL SONG [CHORUS — OPEN (0:00 / piano + vocal + low drone)] I knew you would come Join us… become part of us Now close your starlit eyes For your ascension We welcome you to the Garden Will you bloom… or become Shadow in the branches Petal… or the poison (whisper layer underneath) close your starlit eyes… [VERSE 1 — intimate / piano-led] Bare feet in the dew Moon dripping on your shoulders You crossed the quiet border Left your old name on the gate Soft hands on your pulse We trace your hidden thunder You tremble as you wonder What you’ll give… what we’ll take (mmm) [CHORUS — strings begin to rise] I knew you would come Join us, become part of us Now close your starlit eyes For your ascension We welcome you to the Garden Will you bloom or become Shadow in the branches Petal or the poison (light choir breath enters) [VERSE 2 — orchestral undercurrent / slow pulse enters] Perfume in the dark Sweet rot and ripe surrender We circle as you enter Every breath a little vow Vines learn your skin They memorize your secrets You’re softer when you keep them Are you ready to be found? (tell me) Petals where your pulse used to live Roots where your doubts used to sleep You tremble on the edge of a wish And the wish sinks deeper than deep (oh) We drink every thought from your mouth Till your silence starts to sing You reach for the ruin you were But your fingers just find wings [CHORUS — fuller orchestra / choir widening] I knew you would come Join us, become part of us Now close your starlit eyes For your ascension We welcome you to the Garden Will you bloom or become Shadow in the branches Petal or the poison (choir layered wider now) [BRIDGE — stripped → rising tension] (piano + sub only) Say it low… say it slow (oh) “I am yours… I am open…” One more step… let it go Fall like fruit… that’s overripe (hold… silence breath… then choir begins to rise behind last word) [FINAL CHORUS — full symphonic bloom] I knew you would come Join us, become part of us Now close your starlit eyes For your ascension We welcome you to the Garden Will you bloom or become Shadow in the branches Petal… or the poison (full choir — layered harmonies) close your starlit eyes… become… become… become… 🌫️ OUTRO (fade / ritual echo) (music dissolving — choir distant) “Stay…” “Grow…” (very soft, final imprint) “Close your starlit eyes…”