Lights Over Winter

Tempo: 136 BPM | Key: A minor → C major lift | Style: Uplifting / Melodic Trance)

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(Intro – 16 bars)
(Soft vinyl crackle, distant wind)
(Bell chimes echo in reverb, slow filter sweep)
(Piano plays a simple Christmas motif)
(White noise riser builds, sidechained pad fades in)

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(Build 1 – 16 bars)
(Muted kick enters)
(Warm pad progression opens)
(Arpeggiator pulses softly)

Female Vocal (airy, emotional):
Snow falls slow on empty streets
Time stands still with every beat
Old lights glow like memories
Calling you back home to me

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(Pre-Drop – 8 bars)
(Kick cuts out)
(Bells pitch up)
(Vocal chop repeats “home… home…”)
(Riser + reverse piano)

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(DROP 1 – 32 bars)
(FULL TRANCE LEAD)
(Saw lead with wide stereo, Christmas bell layer on top)
(Punchy kick, rolling bassline)
(Chord stabs synced with lead melody)

Vocal Chop (processed):
Tonight… tonight…
We come alive in the winter light

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(Breakdown – 32 bars)
(Piano returns solo)
(String pad swells)
(Choir texture very soft)

Female Vocal (clear, close):
If the year was hard and the nights were cold
If you lost your way, if your heart got broke
Follow the sound, follow the glow
Every road leads back home

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(Build 2 – 16 bars)
(Snare roll builds)
(Lead melody teased in plucks)
(Children-choir “ahh” layered quietly)

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(DROP 2 – 48 bars)
(Bigger, euphoric lead)
(Open hi-hats, extra bass harmonics)
(Bell melody counter-line)
(Hands-in-the-air trance moment)

Vocal Chop:
Back home
Back home
Under the lights tonight

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(Outro – 16 bars)
(Kick fades)
(Piano + bells)
(Reverb tails drift out like snow)

Trance, epic build ups , epic drops