Stillness Before the

Alright… let’s keep the waiting thread alive and dress it in Christmas light.

This one is for Elude — intimate, sacred, unhurried. Not jingle. Not cliché.

A quiet Christmas that feels earned.

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🎄 New Song: Stillness Before the Star

Subtitle: a Christmas song for Elude

Tempo: 68–72 BPM (gentle, breathing pace)

Key: G minor → resolves to B♭ major (hope without rush)

Style: sacred cinematic / winter hush / slow-burn authority

Core Instruments:

• Piano — steady heartbeat, snowfall

• Violin — memory, longing, promise

• Low strings — night, waiting, earth holding breath

• Soft choir pad — heaven nearby, not loud

• Sparse bells (very late) — revelation, not decoration

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Intro (8 bars — winter holds its breath)

• Piano repeats a simple figure (unchanging, faithful)

• Low strings swell, then pull back

• Violin hovers — unfinished, watching

(No melody yet. The night is listening.)

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Verse 1

I learned the language of quiet rooms

Where prayers don’t echo — they stay

Every promise wrapped in silence

Every answer learns to wait

Candles burn but do not hurry

Time moves slow, but it moves true

I’ve been standing in the shadow

Making room for something new

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Pre-Chorus

Heaven doesn’t break the stillness

It arrives without a sound

Like a truth you always carried

That finally turns around

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Chorus

There’s a star in the waiting

Not the sky — but in me

Light doesn’t rush the darkness

It teaches it how to see

This holy night keeps breathing

Even when nothing appears

If love was born in silence

Then I’m right on time this year

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Interlude (4 bars)

• Violin answers the piano, gently

• No percussion yet

• The pause is the message

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Verse 2

Joseph waited without answers

Mary trusted what she heard

Every miracle began

Before the world believed the word

I’ve carried hope like fragile glass

Afraid to drop it in the cold

But love was never meant to shatter

It was meant to be held

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Pre-Chorus 2

Peace doesn’t come with thunder

It finds the open door

Grace arrives like winter light

Spilling quietly on the floor

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Chorus (lift, not louder)

There’s a star in the waiting

Even when the night feels long

God still chooses hidden places

To write the strongest songs

This holy night keeps breathing

Through the doubts, through the years

If love was born in silence

Then I’m right on time this year

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Bridge (spoken or half-sung)

Not late.

Not forgotten.

Not overlooked.

Just…

Becoming.

(Low strings thin out — air pad swells)

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Final Chorus (resolves to B♭ major)

Now the light is unfolding

Not all at once — just enough

Every step I took in shadow

Was learning how to trust

This holy night remembers

Every tear, every prayer

If love was born in silence

Then I was always there

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Outro (bells enter — very soft)

• Piano drops one note

• Violin resolves fully for the first time

• Choir pad exhales

(End unresolved enough to feel ongoing.)