Holding On to the Light That Fades
Some songs come from a place you can easily explain—joy, anger, hope.
Starlit Reflections didn’t come from one of those places.
It came from something quieter.
Something more complicated.
It came from memory.
We weren’t trying to write a single when we began Starlit Reflections.
We were trying to hold on to something.
A moment.
A feeling.
A time that felt so close you could almost touch it—and yet impossibly far away.
Where It Began
The first notes of Starlit Reflections weren’t about reaching out.
They were about reaching back.
Pulling on those fragile, shimmering threads that tie us to the people and places we can never quite return to.
It wasn’t sadness, exactly.
It was longing.
A love for what’s lost, and the bittersweet ache that it was ever yours at all.
The Sound of Remembering
We built Starlit Reflections to feel like the act of remembering itself.
Not perfect. Not linear.
Soft, blurred, and full of light leaking in from the edges.
- The piano is hesitant, almost like it’s afraid to move too fast and shatter the memory.
- The synths drift and flicker, like distant stars seen through tears.
- The vocals are close and fragile one moment, distant and ghostlike the next.
Michael: “It’s not a song you sing at the top of your lungs. It’s a song you whisper to yourself at two in the morning, when the world feels very far away.”
How It Fits Into Horizons
In many ways, Starlit Reflections feels like the mirror image of everything Horizons stood for.
Where Horizons was about looking forward—toward endless skies and infinite possibilities—Starlit Reflections is about what’s left behind.
It belongs to the same world.
It’s just standing at a different point along the road.
Looking back instead of racing ahead.
Ayesha: “If Horizons was the leap into the unknown, Starlit Reflections is the moment you pause, turn around, and see all the dreams you had to leave behind to get here.”
It’s not about regret.
It’s about honouring the journey.
Recognising that every star you chased left its own glow behind you, even as you moved past it.
Why Memory Matters
We write a lot about time in Crystal Youth—how it shapes us, how it moves through us.
And Starlit Reflections is, at its heart, a song about time.
How love can persist across it.
How dreams can survive within it.
How memories, even when they fade, still leave their light.
Michael: “You can’t live in the past. But you can carry it with you. You can let it make you softer, wiser, more open.”
That’s what this song is about.
Not forgetting.
Not moving on without looking back.
But taking the best of what was and using it to light the road ahead.
A Song for You
Maybe you have a memory that feels like that.
Maybe you think of someone late at night, someone you haven’t seen in years, and for a moment, they feel closer than they ever did.
Maybe you sometimes wish you could freeze a perfect night, a perfect conversation, a perfect glance—and keep it alive forever.
Starlit Reflections is for those moments.
For you.
For all of us who chase memories, not to trap them, but to honour them.
And if you listen closely, maybe you’ll hear it:
The echo of a laugh, the glow of a distant star, the heartbeat of something you loved too much to ever really lose.