[Verse 1 - dry guitar, faint glass armonica bleeding underneath] Morning spills across the kitchen Like it's done a thousand times She moves gently through the motions While her soul outruns the light Everybody says she's lucky She just nods and lets it pass 'Cause somewhere there's another woman Living in the looking glass She still waves at passing airplanes Like they're calling out her name While the world keeps drawing circles And pretending that's the same [Pre-Chorus - glass armonica rising, guitar thinning] If you looked beyond her smile You would see another sky... [Chorus - guitar drops out, esraj and santoor bloom] She's got stars in her eyes Even when she's crying Whole constellations burning Quietly inside them She keeps reaching for a life She has never known Trying to remember Some forgotten home You can break her heart You can bend her light But you'll never steal The stars in her eyes... The stars in her eyes... [Verse 2 - guitar returns fragile, inner world louder now] She collects impossible things Like old songs and summer rain Keeps tomorrow in her pocket Though yesterday still knows her name Every mirror tells a story That she never got to live Still she paints another sunrise With whatever hope is left to give Sometimes she feels guilty For wanting something more Like dreaming is a crime Behind an ordinary door [Pre-Chorus 2] Maybe heaven planted galaxies Inside a restless soul... [Chorus 2] She's got stars in her eyes Even when she's breaking Tiny fires refusing Every chance of fading There's a universe She's carried all this time Hidden in the silence Between each compromise The world may never see The woman she believes But every dream still shines In the stars in her eyes [Bridge - guitar gone, esraj and glass armonica alone] Mm... maybe we don't ache Because we're empty... Maybe we ache Because somewhere inside us Lives the person We were meant to become And every sleepless night Every whispered prayer Every road not taken... Still flickers... [Inner world fully arrives] Like light traveling somewhere [Final Chorus - full inner ensemble, guitar never returns] She's got stars in her eyes Though this life feels borrowed She's holding onto pieces Of a better life tomorrow One day she'll look up And finally realize The thing that kept her breathing Was never just the sky It was every impossible dream Still refusing to die... Those stars... Those stars in her eyes... [Outro - glass armonica and esraj fading, guitar gone for good] If you ever meet her... Don't tell her to stop dreaming The stars are the only map She's ever believed in [Music Fades]
