Starlight Airlock

Instrumental Intro - 8 bars with filtered piano and distant synth pads

Verse 1

Donna packed her bags at midnight

Dust on every map she owned

Satellite blinked a faint code

Planet ZETA-9 unknown

She traced the stars across her ceiling

Counted cracks in every wall

Out there something kept on calling

Louder than the lonely fall

Pre-Chorus

And the void just stared right back

Through the cabin window crack

Every signal turned to static

But she never turned the dial

Chorus

Out past the rings of Jupiter

Past the drift where comets sleep

Donna's soul is a wandering whisper

Counting light years to that distant keep

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Through the static she can hear it shine

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Donna's heart is a straight line

Drop - House groove builds with chopped vocal stutter

Don-don-don-donna

Don-don-don-donna

Verse 2

Navigator screens went dark at dawn

Oxygen at half a tank

She wrote letters to no sender

On the bulkhead by the bank

Starlight caught her in the airlock

Spinning slow like melted glass

Every planet looked like home now

But she knew she'd never last

Pre-Chorus

And the void just stared right back

Through the cabin window crack

Every signal turned to static

But she never turns around

Chorus

Out past the rings of Jupiter

Past the drift where comets sleep

Donna's soul is a wandering whisper

Counting light years to that distant keep

ZETA-9 ZETA-9

Through the static she can hear it shine

ZETA-9 ZETA-9

Donna's heart is a straight line

Drop 2 - Deeper bass, layered vocal samples

ZETA-9 she's almost there

ZETA-9 through solar glare

Bridge

Fourteen years in frozen transit

Dreaming of a purple sky

No one back home knows she made it

No one's left to say goodbye

Gravity won't ever hold her

Atmosphere is thin and cold

But the signal bloomed like morning

Brighter than the tales were told

Chorus - Half-time feel, then builds

Out past the rings of Jupiter

Past the drift where comets sleep

Donna's soul is a wandering whisper

Counting light years to that distant keep

ZETA-9 ZETA-9

Through the static she can hear it shine

ZETA-9 ZETA-9

Donna's heart is a straight line

Drop 3 - Full energy, four-on-the-floor kick, trance arpeggios

Donna found it Donna found it

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Donna found it Donna found it

In the emptiness so fine

Outro - Ambient wash, fading vocal

Donna's footsteps on the tundra

Echoes through the crystal sand

Home is not a place you come from

Home is where you choose to land

Mm...

Mm... mm...

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