[Title: Blue Gecko (v1.0)]

[Author: Stephen Shooster]

[Date: 2026-06-11]

[Verse 1 — slow, intimate, strings beneath]

I remember a blue so bright it hurt to look at

I remember a small life moving, fast and sure

I remember the water catching all the daylight

I remember thinking: this is worth preserving

[Verse 2 — slightly fuller, a second voice entering]

I remember a crowded world of color and pattern

I remember the playing, two of them, just two

I remember a name stamped into the center

I remember belonging to a place that was real

[Pre-chorus — faster, almost spoken]

And I stood there

And I saw them

And I thought: they were here before the names we gave them

And they'll go

And they'll vanish

And the water will keep filling

And the light will keep on landing

And no one will remember

[Chorus — building, full ensemble]

I remember

I remember

I remember blue

I remember something living

I remember something true

I remember how it mattered

I remember that it played

I remember being frightened

That the memory would fade

[Bridge — half-time, hushed, strings pull back]

I saw two

Just two

Where once there had been thousands

I saw a pool

Of rain

That didn't know its own importance

I stood beneath a canopy of everything that's ever been made by hand

And I felt the loss before the losing came

[Chorus — building, louder, projected-large]

I remember

I remember

I remember blue

I remember something living

I remember something true

I remember how it mattered

I remember that it played

I remember being frightened

That the memory would fade

[Tag — held, breath-near, a single voice, strings sustain]

I remember

Blue

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