Starveil Harbor

[[DO NOT SING: Anything in [[ ]] is arrangement. Follow structure and timing.]]
[[TEMPO: 108 BPM | 4/4 | minor with hopeful lift | VIBE: haunted + luminous, slight smile]]
[[INSTR: INTRO | x8 bars | no drums, glassy plucks, wide pad, LPF swell, airy vox chops sparse]]

Found me at the harbor’s edge,
skin lit green by the waterline.
Lanterns sway in the salt-wet wind,
night folds down behind our eyes.
You touch my wrist—light breaks the seam,
ribbons spill into the tide.
The ocean hums,
the ocean takes them.

[[INSTR: PRE | x4 bars | BUILD +PAD +ARP, +HATS soft, bass pulse enters]]
I step into your shadow,
the shore forgets my name.

[[INSTR: CHORUS A | x8 bars | DROP +KICK +SUB +WIDE PADS +BRIGHT ARP | stereo widen +2]]
Starveil harbor,
pull me through the shimmer.
We are mirrors under waves,
breaking, mending, breaking again.
Starveil harbor,
carry me where the sky leans closer.
Let me breathe the silver air
’til my lungs remember.

[[INSTR: POST | x2 bars | instrumental fill, reverse cym sweep]]
[[INSTR: VERSE 2 | x8 bars | –KICK first 4, +BASS PULSE, pluck call-response, intimate vox]]
Streets of glass, floodlit veins,
every step sends ripples wide.
Buildings hum in the pulse-light rain,
old bones shake loose inside.
You speak in shapes the air can keep,
roots bloom where my heart should be.
Every breath tastes like the first one
I was never meant to breathe.

[[INSTR: PRE | x4 bars | BUILD +HATS +PAD swell, keep vox close]]
I step into your shadow,
the shore forgets my name.

[[INSTR: CHORUS B | x8 bars | +HARMONIES (octave + third) +BRIGHTER ARP | sidechain pump]]
Starveil harbor,
pull me through the shimmer.
We are mirrors under waves,
breaking, mending, breaking again.
Starveil harbor,
carry me where the sky leans closer.
Let me breathe the silver air
’til my lungs remember.

[[INSTR: BRIDGE | x8 bars | BREAKDOWN: mute kick 2 bars, LPF pads 12k→2k, +VOX CHOPS, then +SNARE build x2]]
Tide climbs higher,
pulls us past the city’s crown.
We fall upward,
spill our colors into sound.
Your hand in mine—
can’t tell where the water ends,
where the sky begins.

[[INSTR: FINAL CHORUS | x12 bars | MAX LIFT +FULL DRUMS +SUB, +GTR TEXTURE, +CHOIR PAD last 6 bars | CRESC +1 each 2 bars]]
Starveil harbor,
pull me through the shimmer.
We are mirrors under waves,
breaking, mending, breaking again.
Starveil harbor,
carry me where the sky leans closer—
I will stay,
’til my bones turn glass.

[[INSTR: OUTRO | x6 bars | –DRUMS, HOLD last chord 4 bars, LONG REVERB TAIL, delicate pluck echoes]]
Lanterns sway in the salt-wet wind.
The harbor is empty now.

Bright-haunted electronic pop, 108 BPM 4/4; airy vox, shimmering pads/arp, punchy kick+sub, widescreen euphoric choruses