CONCEPT
Crew reaches a dead star where the Hollow just passed. Millions displaced — an entire galaxy lost. SOLARA offers them her system. Castor says: put them where Pollux is. Pollux is just learning to be a star. Emotional, heavy with the sadness of losing a home, with a hint of hope.
Heavy and sad with a hint of hope, slow tempo, strings and choir, SOLARA’s voice carrying the grief and the offer, Castor’s line lands as the emotional turn, BPM 72, minor key. 4:45
LYRICS
[Verse 1]
The star was hollow
Not dark the way stars go dark
When they run out of light
But hollow
The way a place goes hollow
When something took everything
That was ever in it
And left
The crew did not speak
The crew had learned by now
When silence was the correct answer
[Pre-Chorus]
There were people here
Among the debris
Among what remained of a galaxy
That had existed
For longer than the law they broke today
Just by arriving
Millions of them
(millions)
(yes)
(an entire galaxy)
(everything they had)
[Chorus]
Cosmic debris
We are standing in what was a home
Cosmic debris
Millions of people with nowhere to go
The Hollow passed through here
And left this silence
Left this hollow dark
Cosmic debris
We cannot leave them here
We will not leave them here
[Verse 2]
SOLARA said:
They can come to our system
For now
Until we find a better answer
The crew said nothing
In the way the crew says nothing
When they agree
But feel the weight of agreeing
And then Castor said:
Put them where Pollux is
(Pollux)
(yes)
(but Pollux is only just learning)
(to be a star)
(yes)
(and millions of people)
(need a place to be)
(while they grieve)
(a star that is learning)
(is still a star)
(yes)
(yes it is)
[Bridge]
The people looked at them
The way people look
When they do not expect to be seen
After losing everything
SOLARA said:
You are not debris
She said:
You are not what the Hollow left behind
She said:
You are what the Hollow
Could not take
No matter how hard it tried
[Final Chorus]
Cosmic debris
Not what they are
Not what they were
Not what they will be
Cosmic debris
Is only what remains
When something is still here
Still breathing
Still standing
In the dark
Of what was home
Cosmic debris
We see you
Come with us