Bright Lights

A reflection on Coco’s past in South Africa, where hate and discrimination tore her family apart in an instant. Now, surrounded by friends, her band, and a new life, it all feels like a dream she’s afraid to wake up from. In her sleep, she still sees her family as angels at her window - her heart says she’s alive, but she calls herself heartless.
A bittersweet track about memory, survival, and the fear of losing everything again.

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I once called you my heart,
back in the heat of the southern sun,
but the hate cracked the walls,
and the house fell down in one.
Now I wake up in a safer bed,
with a band, with friends, with open skies,
yet the ghosts of your faces
still stare through my blinds.

It all feels too fragile,
like glass under my skin,
I breathe in this moment,
afraid it will all cave in.

Heartless — that’s what I’ve become,
since the day I lost the only ones.
If this is just a dream, don’t let me wake,
let the angels tap my window,
I’ll pretend it’s not too late.

Fields of hate, they swallowed us whole,
taught us how fast love corrodes.
One blink, one word,
and the family I knew was gone,
now I stitch new memories
to keep the nightmares calm.
Cleo’s chords, Yfke’s smoke,
Zoey’s quiet smile in the glow —
they’re my anchors in this storm,
my reason to still go.

But every night it comes back,
a shadowed choir sings,
I see you shining,
like angels without wings.

Heartless — that’s what I’ve become,
since the day I lost the only ones.
If this is just a dream, don’t let me wake,
let the angels tap my window,
I’ll pretend it’s not too late.

Behind the glass, you call to me,
with voices soft, impossibly sweet.
Am I forgiven, am I still yours?
Or just another exile, shut out the door?

I am heartless,
but your echo keeps me warm.
I am rootless,
yet I bloom where I’m torn.

Heartless — yet I’m still alive,
walking through a dream I don’t recognize.
And if the morning burns away these skies,
I’ll thank the dream for keeping me
breathing through the night.

Tap the glass,
call my name,
in heartless dreams
I’m yours again.

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