[Intro - Solo piano playing slow, descending arpeggios in a minor key. Single cello enters with a long, mournful bow. Ambient synth pad like distant light fading. No drums. Ethereal wordless female vocal hum. Duration: 10 seconds.]

Verse 1:
[Instrument: Piano and cello only. Soft, fragile. Bass enters with long, low notes. Voice is tender, almost breathless.]
The sun descended like a wounded dove
Spilling gold and crimson on the edge of love
We stood beneath the waterfall of rays
Counting down the final, luminous days
[Backing vocal: single voice humming "ahh" in a high, thin register, like light itself.]

Verse 2:
[Instrument: Acoustic guitar fingerpicking with lush reverb. Strings swell gently. Drummer with soft mallets on toms. Warm but tinged with sorrow.]
Each drop of light slipped through my open palm
A honeyed rain pretending to be calm
You said, "Don't fear the fading, don't you cry
Some beauties only live before they die"
[Choir enters low and warm, humming in sustained chords, growing slightly brighter then dimming.]

Chorus:
[Instrument: Full orchestra swells with strings and brass. Drums enter with powerful, half-time beats. Synth pads expand. Choir becomes full and anthemic. Music rises to epic, bittersweet peak.]
The last cascade of light is falling now
A silver river breaking from the cloud
Let me hold you in the undertow
Where the dying embers learn to glow
Every color bleeds into the grey
But oh, what a beautiful way to fade away
The last cascade… the last cascade…
[Choir repeats "last cascade" with descending harmony, strings soaring then gently falling.]

Verse 3:
[Instrument: Drums drop out. Solo violin plays a fragile, crying line. Piano with sparse, high notes. Electronic shimmer like scattered photons.]
I tried to build a dam against the stream
To freeze the moment in a waking dream
But time is just a thief in golden clothes
And even light must learn to decompose
[Backing vocal: children's choir faintly singing "decompose" — haunting and innocent.]

Bridge:
[All instruments pause for two seconds of silence. Then a single timpani roll, low and rumbling. Slowly, new age electronic arpeggios build like falling stars. Guitar melodic solo (crying, bluesy, emotional) over strings and synth pads. Drums enter with progressive tom fills, shifting time signatures. Key change up a half step. Choir swells from soft to powerful.]
What if the fall is not the end?
What if the broken light learns to bend?
Into the soil, into the root
Into the silence of the absolute?
I cannot catch the pouring sky
But I can let it purify
Not with grasping, not with fear
Just a whisper: "I was here"
[Full choir enters with big, hopeful harmony. Brass swells. Strings soar. Music becomes transcendent, accepting, almost joyful in its sorrow.]

Chorus (Modified - Double power):
[Full orchestra + full rock choir maximum volume. Drums thunderous but with emotional, half-time groove. Tempo slightly broader. Synth pads wide and cinematic. Music becomes an anthem of beautiful farewell.]
The last cascade of light is falling now
I'll not curse the fading, I will bow
Let me stand inside the golden rain
And kiss the edge of every loss and pain
Every color bleeds into the grey
But oh, what a beautiful way to fade away
The last cascade… I'm not afraid…
[Choir repeats "not afraid" with crescendo, then holds a long, high, shining note. Strings and brass peak.]

Outro:
[All instruments gradually drop out, leaving solo piano playing the descending arpeggio from the intro. Single cello holds one final note. A soft children's choir hums the chorus melody in major key — peaceful, not sad. Final piano chord decays long. Fade to silence.]
(Whispered spoken word over fading piano: "The last cascade… and I am light again…")
[Final ambient note fades to complete silence.]