Paper Satellites
performed by Vela Nine

Verse 1
We built our rockets out of cardboard dreams,
launched them off the rooftop's rusted seams.
You held the string and I held the spark,
and we wrote our names across the dark.

Pre-Chorus
Up, up, where the signal goes thin,
counting the static like it's kin.

Chorus
Paper satellites, falling out of tune,
chasing the long light of a borrowed moon.
We were never meant to land —
just to drift a while, hand in hand.

Verse 2
The city slept in television blue,
and every window held a different you.
I taped the maps of constellations wrong,
but you sang along to every song.

Chorus
Paper satellites, falling out of tune,
chasing the long light of a borrowed moon.
We were never meant to land —
just to drift a while, hand in hand.

Outro
Burn up slow, little paper light,
you were always going to lose the fight.
But oh, what a way to lose —
spinning down in silver hues.

(All lyrics original and fictional.)