starry luv (feat. Kta trill)

"starry luv" is not a song about reclaiming what has been lost.
Rather, it is a record of the will to keep living in the present, even after realizing that there are places we can never return to.

The setting of the song, originally titled Toka, refers to the university dormitory where Cigamacla and kta trill live.
This track does not arise from extraordinary events, but from fragments of everyday life: a six-tatami room, scratches on the ceiling, and days where nothing in particular seems to happen. Out of these ordinary moments, the song quietly takes shape.

In the first half, the figure of "you" is someone who is no longer by the narrator's side.
Even so, Cigamacla cannot erase his emotions, nor can he stop singing.
What is depicted here is not simply an unfulfilled love, but a present-tense struggle to move away from a form of love that only wants to be wanted.

The line "Love is like a star" resonates with the ideas of Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving.
We unconsciously assign a "correct shape" to love.
Yet just as stars exist in countless forms beyond the symbolic shape we imagine, love too is not meant to be singular.
"starry luv" portrays a turning point where the focus shifts from the desire to be loved toward the decision to love.

In kta trill's rap verse, the phrase "that stage we can't return to" refers to his high school choir competitions - a symbol of youth, a place that once shone brightly but can never be stood upon in the same way again.
Without denying or romanticizing that past, his calm acceptance of its distance gives the entire song its grounding in the idea of living now.

The phrase "Lone Wolf" does not signify the tragedy of isolation.
Rather, it expresses the resolve to embrace one's own way of living and loving, even when one cannot choose the conventional path.

Love is not fulfilled.
Youth does not return.
And yet, life goes on, and today still carries meaning.
"starry luv" is not a song about the moment of gaining something, but a piece that captures the quiet instant when one's values gently shift - a song that stands at a point of divergence.