Salt and Starlight

[Intro, Distant strings, slow piano chords]
(One breath… one break… then flight)
I gave it all to the quiet night

[Verse 1, Soft, trembling delivery]
Hands still smell like rain and dust
I tried to hold what slipped from trust
The sky forgot to call my name
But I whispered it just the same

[Pre-Chorus, Building slowly]
Tired of begging stars for grace
Now I face them, eye to face

[Chorus, String swell, cinematic rise]
I am salt and starlight
Wounds and wonder, fused by fire
I cried oceans through the night
But still I rise, still I aspire
I carry storms and lullabies
I burn, I break — and still I try
I am salt and starlight
No need to ask why

[Verse 2, Stronger voice, still tender]
All the things they couldn't see
Grow wild inside the core of me
They said “too much,” I said “not yet”
I’m made of more than their regret

[Pre-Chorus, Full harmonic support]
Let the wind sing in my skin
I’ll fall apart, then fall within

[Chorus, Higher octave, more power]
I am salt and starlight
Torn and tempered, loud and kind
I don’t need to win the fight
Just leave a mark that won’t unwind
I’ve kissed the flame, I’ve named the night
I’ve lost my fear to gain my flight
I am salt and starlight
And that’s my right

[Bridge, Quietest moment → cinematic lift]
(Sing me slow… sing me soft...)
No more shame, no need to prove
My truth walks in the light I move

[Final Chorus, Cinematic explosion + fade]
I am salt and starlight
A poem made of breath and scar
No crown, no chain, just open sky
I’m not broken — I just are
I carry storms and lullabies
I rise in love, I fall in light
I am salt and starlight
And I will be… all right

[Outro, Slow piano, breathy hums, strings fade into air]
(Salt… and starlight...)

Cinematic pop, orchestral strings, ambient pads, slow piano progression, emotive female vocals, big swells and silences