Starless Screen
jerdot04Posted on June 6, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Lyrics
[Intro: Spoken Over Organ And Static] The marquee flickers, the heavens tear
The dead take seats in the velvet air
The reel begins with a funeral scream
Welcome back to the starless screen
[Verse 1] Rust on the rockets, blood on the moon
Creatures crawling from a paper tomb
A silver-faced hero with a cracked ray gun
Prays to the void, but the void comes undone
The bride of the comet wears a widow’s crown
While saucers hum over a sleeping town
Every small child beneath the sheets
Hears claw marks tapping from distant streets
[Pre-Chorus] Turn the dial, let the static breathe
Something old lives underneath
Frame by frame, the shadows rise
With painted teeth and burning eyes
[Chorus] At midnight on the starless screen
We wake the ghosts of the machine
Monsters march through the projector flame
Calling every lost soul by name
The planets crack, the sirens sing
The theater shakes with a black-winged king
Roll the reel, let terror gleam
At midnight on the starless screen
[Verse 2] A madman laughs in a lightning chair
Sewing new gods from bone and prayer
The lab doors burst, the heavens bend
And every warning becomes a friend
A woman screams by the crater’s rim
As the Martian choir starts chanting hymns
The moon goes blind, the stars fall strange
While human hearts begin to change
[Pre-Chorus] Turn the dial, let the static breathe
Something old lives underneath
Frame by frame, the shadows rise
With painted teeth and burning eyes
[Chorus] At midnight on the starless screen
We wake the ghosts of the machine
Monsters march through the projector flame
Calling every lost soul by name
The planets crack, the sirens sing
The theater shakes with a black-winged king
Roll the reel, let terror gleam
At midnight on the starless screen
[Bridge: Slow, Theatrical] Oh, the stars were never kind
They only watched us lose our minds
The hero dies, the credits crawl
The monster waits inside us all
From castle towers to alien skies
From stitched-up hands to saucer eyes
Every nightmare ever shown
Found a way to follow home
[Breakdown] Roll the reel
Split the sky
Wake the beast
Let worlds die
Static crown
Celluloid grave
No one leaves
No one’s saved
[Final Chorus] At midnight on the starless screen
We wake the ghosts of the machine
Monsters march through the projector flame
Calling every lost soul by name
The planets crack, the sirens sing
The theater shakes with a black-winged king
Roll the reel, let terror gleam
At midnight on the starless screen
[Outro: Fading Choir] The marquee dies, the seats are bare
But something breathes in the velvet air
The reel burns out, yet in your dream
You’re still trapped in the starless screen