Intro (whispered / airy) Ooo… vela nora… shai-lem… shai-lem…

Verse 1

I walked through the hollow light again

drifting slow in a paper wind

no name, no face, just echo skin

and the sky kept folding in

it hums like a broken sea

calling out in memory

but it speaks in colors I can’t keep

so I let it breathe through me

Pre-Chorus

lae-shi vae, lae-shi vae

don’t translate what it wants to say

hold the sound, let it decay

we don’t belong the normal way

Chorus (hook / chantable)

vela nora, shai-lem o

ti-ka ra, no-go slow

vela nora, bend and glow

we are the words nobody knows

shai-lem… shai-lem…

fall into the in-between

vela nora, don’t wake me

I’m already what I mean

Verse 2

I saw a door in the open air

it opened into everywhere

and every version of me was there

but none of them cared

they moved like water made of sound

no gravity to hold them down

they laughed in a language I never found

then disappeared into the ground

Pre-Chorus

lae-shi vae, lae-shi vae

we dissolve and we obey

nothing real enough to stay

still we stay anyway

Chorus (repeat, bigger)

vela nora, shai-lem o

ti-ka ra, no-go slow

vela nora, bend and glow

we are the words nobody knows

shai-lem… shai-lem…

fall into the in-between

vela nora, don’t wake me

I’m already what I mean

Bridge (trippy / half-spoken)

If I become the sound again…

will I remember how to end?

or is the ending just pretend

we sing to feel it start again

Final Chorus (darker, heavier, echoing)

vela nora… vela nora…

shai-lem falls forever lower

ti-ka ra… no-go slow

we were never meant to know