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[Verse 1 – gentle piano intro, soft vocals]
The years unravel, threads from an endless loom
Dreams fray in quiet, swallowed by the room
What we held softly, warm against the skin
Now floats like echoes where the light grows thin

[Pre-Chorus – building guitars, subtle “oohs”]
Time carves its quiet art into the bone
Every promise turns to stone
(Whoa-oh, whoa-oh)

[Chorus – full band explosion, soaring harmonies]
But there’s music all around
In the spaces where we fall
Paper flowers on the ground
Still beautiful, though small
We were leaves caught in the sway
Dancing wild then blown away
Yet the melody remains
Whoa-oh-oh, music all around
(Music all around, all around)

[Verse 2 – piano-driven, with echoing delays]
We built our castles high upon the sand
Watched the tide come take them from our hands
Your name was sunlight painted on my breath
Now morning steals it, soft as quiet death
[Pre-Chorus – swelling strings]
Every vow was fragile rain
Glass that shatters, cuts, then mends again
(Whoa-oh, whoa-oh)

[Chorus – even bigger, with layered “ohs” and guitar riffs]
But there’s music all around
In the silence after sound
Paper flowers on the ground
Leave their color when they’re downed
Though forever slipped away
Like a note too fine to stay
Still the echo lingers on
Whoa-oh-oh, music all around
(Music all around, hear it now)

[Bridge – stripped back to piano and vocals, then massive build with drums crashing in]
If love could root beneath the storm
And grow beyond its fleeting form
We’d be more than autumn’s cry
More than stars that fall and die
(Oh-oh-oh, rise up now… rise up now)

[Final Chorus – epic crescendo, full orchestra and choir-like backups, key change uplift]
Oh there’s music all around
Even when the heart is bound
Paper flowers, frail and true
Hold the beauty we once knew
Cherish every breath you take
Every momentary ache
For the song will still be found
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, music all around
Music all around
(All around, all around us now)

[Outro – fading piano arpeggios, distant “whoa-ohs” echoing into reverb, like lights dimming after the encore]
We are leaves… we are light…
We are momentary… (whoa-oh)
Yet the music… all around…
Never says goodbye.
(Music all around… all around…)