Leaves [SSC8 Sample Challenge]

✍🏻 LYRICS \u0026 ADDITIONAL COMPOSITION BY EME LATINA (2026) 🎼 SAMPLE BY HOTPOT OF GENRES (2026) 🔗 suno.com/song/2eb2b568-9140-4aab-8251-641c02c72e8c ────── ABOUT: ────── The analogy is simple: love is like the seasons. It changes. The song starts with something unexpected, like snow in April, much like how love can show up in a random way. That warm, almost endless summer feeling, where everything feels alive, easy, and full of possibility doesn't last. Slowly, daylight fades, the air cools, and what once felt permanent starts to slip away. Fall represents that turning point. The “leaves” metaphor is the heart of it. Love, once full of life, and part of something that felt evergreen, can become, in the end, like the leaves that fall, at once carried away by time and change. I fused Latin influences to the original sample, and wanted a myriad of expression between belting and melodic vocals. Enjoy! ─────────────────── SSC8 SAMPLE CHALLENGE: ─────────────────── • Use the provided sample song as the foundation for your track • Transform it in your own style — cover it, remix it, rearrange it, or reinterpret parts of it • You may use the full song or just selected elements • The final track must still clearly show that the sample was used • Keep it 2:00 to 5:00 minutes and PG-13 • Add [SSC8 Sample Challenge] at the end of your song title ────── LYRICS: ────── (mmm ahhh) You came in like snow in April, a little under my guard; We had the unexpected We had the warmth of a distant summer, much too long ago now; I felt the daylight lean away from us, little by little... We used to be leaves, caught in the evergreen, believing; Summer in our breathing, too bright to be grieving. Now just leaves, leaving Fall is burning deeper, that beauty turning sleepier... and we might as well let go, of what we dreamed, of what we dreamed before... ((We were leaves We were leaves)) You loved like late August, heavy-heated, sweaty, almost sweet, like me; Fruit from the branches falling at our feet... “This is endless," we had thought, but all for naught, as the cool air of September fell... Sneaking up on us, like a warning bell. We used to be leaves, caught in the evergreen, believing; Summer in our breathing, too bright to be grieving. Now just leaves, leaving (Now just leaves, leaving) Love is just weather, whether or not we weathered it; not everything remains, even evergreen isn't forever We used to be leaves, caught in the evergreen, believing; Summer in our breathing, too bright to be grieving. Now just leaves, leaving (Now just leaves, leaving [Outro] ((We were leaves We were leaves) We used to be leaves, caught in the evergreen, believing; Summer in our breathing, too bright to be grieving. Now just leaves, leaving (Now just leaves, leaving)