Intro (whispered / airy) Ooo… vela nora… shai-lem… shai-lem…
Verse 1
I walked through the hollow light again
drifting slow in a paper wind
no name, no face, just echo skin
and the sky kept folding in
it hums like a broken sea
calling out in memory
but it speaks in colors I can’t keep
so I let it breathe through me
Pre-Chorus
lae-shi vae, lae-shi vae
don’t translate what it wants to say
hold the sound, let it decay
we don’t belong the normal way
Chorus (hook / chantable)
vela nora, shai-lem o
ti-ka ra, no-go slow
vela nora, bend and glow
we are the words nobody knows
shai-lem… shai-lem…
fall into the in-between
vela nora, don’t wake me
I’m already what I mean
Verse 2
I saw a door in the open air
it opened into everywhere
and every version of me was there
but none of them cared
they moved like water made of sound
no gravity to hold them down
they laughed in a language I never found
then disappeared into the ground
Pre-Chorus
lae-shi vae, lae-shi vae
we dissolve and we obey
nothing real enough to stay
still we stay anyway
Chorus (repeat, bigger)
vela nora, shai-lem o
ti-ka ra, no-go slow
vela nora, bend and glow
we are the words nobody knows
shai-lem… shai-lem…
fall into the in-between
vela nora, don’t wake me
I’m already what I mean
Bridge (trippy / half-spoken)
If I become the sound again…
will I remember how to end?
or is the ending just pretend
we sing to feel it start again
Final Chorus (darker, heavier, echoing)
vela nora… vela nora…
shai-lem falls forever lower
ti-ka ra… no-go slow
we were never meant to know