Lyrics
[Intro]
Green screen year
Camera on
Count me in
I was not gone
[Verse]
By August I was directing
From a room made out of light
Stand Together on the timeline
Voices gathered for the night
I had tabs open like windows
Scripts and names and running cues
Every little moving part
Somehow knew what it should do
And I was there behind the screen
Not just watching anymore
I was calling out the timing
I was opening the door
[Pre Chorus]
Funny how a quiet kid
Can become the one who leads
When the world becomes a webcam
And the stage becomes a feed
[Chorus]
That was my green screen year
Standing where the lights were clear
Thousands saw the work we made
And I was not afraid
That was my almost-twenty sky
Hands up, camera rolling high
I had no idea the storm was near
I was alive in my green screen year
[Verse]
High school friends came back around
College friends curved back again
Like a line that looked like leaving
But was only learning when
Some apologies were silent
Some were spoken through the days
Some were just familiar laughter
Finding back familiar ways
Dhamma talks with hundreds watching
I was emcee with steady breath
Asking questions, holding space
Not yet haunted by what’s next
[Pre Chorus]
I had a voice, I had a rhythm
I had things I knew to say
I was growing in the open
In a very online way
[Chorus]
That was my green screen year
Standing where the lights were clear
Thousands saw the work we made
And I was not afraid
That was my almost-twenty sky
Hands up, camera rolling high
I had no idea the storm was near
I was alive in my green screen year
[Verse]
Then came casting for the Cup
Uni mates names inside a file
Bro there beside the process
Turning chaos into style
Studio space and green behind us
Like a portal in the room
I look back now and I whisper
Damn, I really peaked too soon
Not in failure, not in sadness
Just in wonder, just in awe
Because I saw myself becoming
Someone I had never saw
[Pre Chorus]
And if you told me in that moment
What the next month came to be
I would laugh and keep on working
Thinking, no, that won’t be me
[Chorus]
That was my green screen year
Standing where the lights were clear
Thousands saw the work we made
And I was not afraid
That was my almost-twenty sky
Hands up, camera rolling high
I had no idea the storm was near
I was alive in my green screen year
[Bridge]
Nineteen turned to twenty
And somehow I had done so much
Hosted talks and built a concert
Held the mic and kept in touch
From small birthdays to big screens
From online class to campus seats
From walking routes to camera crews
From old lost friends to something new
I was not waiting to be rescued
I was not begging to be seen
I was already in the picture
I was already on the screen
Then November waited quietly
Like a shadow past the frame
But this song is not about that
This song remembers who I became
[Chorus]
That was my green screen year
Standing where the lights were clear
Thousands saw the work we made
And I was not afraid
That was my almost-twenty sky
Hands up, camera rolling high
I had no idea the storm was near
I was alive in my green screen year
That was my green screen year
Before the fog, before the fear
Before the five-year empty space
Before I misplaced my own face
But somewhere under all that blur
The old me did not disappear
He was waiting, still sincere
Inside that green screen year
[Outro]
Camera on
Count me in
Lights are warm
Let it begin