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diff --git a/eli/message/muscular/track.eno b/eli/message/muscular/track.eno index 3917dea..3ca8a50 100644 --- a/eli/message/muscular/track.eno +++ b/eli/message/muscular/track.eno @@ -1,96 +1,96 @@ -more_label: Lyrics - ---more - -[INTRO – trip hop, low BPM, dust and vinyl] -Midnight mind, metronome breathing -Neon hum, half-believing -I inherit ruins and blueprints both -Irony cracked but hope still smokes - -Static sermons, soft resistance -Meaning flickers at a distance -I said a name into the dark -It said it back but missed the mark - -[VERSE 1 – trip hop, spoken/half-sung] -They said choose a side, I chose the seam -Between the scream and the marketing dream -Post this, deconstruct that -I tried, I drowned, I floated back - -I don’t sneer, I don’t submit -I lift the doubt and sit with it -Muscle isn’t fists or flags -It’s staying whole when stories drag - -I call myself what I don’t yet know -A working title, moving slow -I face the mirror, step unsure -Faith provisional, spine still pure - -[PRE-CHORUS – beat begins to firm] -Is this strength or just disguise? -Is this clarity or compromise? -I breathe in myth, I breathe out fact -Flex the maybe, don’t collapse - -[CHORUS – trip hop hook] -Which way am I facing and how far shall I step? -Meta as I measure the promises I kept -The message is the medium, the medium’s a mess -I’m strong enough to question, not pretend I guessed - -[BREAK – beat switch, tempo up, 80s drum machine enters] - -[VERSE 2 – proto-rap, crisp, playful] -Now rewind tape, click, clack, boom -Cardboard city, borrowed room -It’s Eli on the corner with a borrowed beat -Got doubt in the head and soul in the feet - -They said “What you stand for?” I said “Stand by” -BD on my shoulder like a trickster spy -Bobby D to Charlemagne -Ancient kings in a power refrain - -History heavy, haloed and worn -Yesterday’s rebels get bronzed by morn -I don’t cancel, I don’t canonize -I metabolize - -[CHORUS – rap cadence] -Which way am I facing and how far shall I step? -No map, no master, no meta-net -The message is the medium, pass it direct -Muscular mind with a human defect - -[VERSE 3 – proto-rap, humorous edge] -You can’t copystrike the sun, check the source code -Free as a chorus, no license mode -Teach the world to sing, yeah fine, okay -But not in perfect harmony — no license key, I say - -I flex uncertainty, modestly bold -Not marble truth, but something that holds -Not irony’s grave, not faith on a leash -Just meaning with muscle, teeth on the speech - -[BRIDGE – half-time, reflective] -Yin in the wiring, yang in the stance -Soft hands, strong back, give doubt a chance -Masculine, feminine, miss the point -I’m building balance at the joint - -[FINAL CHORUS – full energy] -Which way am I facing and how far shall I step? -Far enough to risk it, close enough to check -The message is the medium, the medium is me -Muscular metamodernist — uncertain, standing free - -[OUTRO – beat strips back, echo] -Name’s provisional -Direction pending -Signal alive -Transmission sending ---more +more_label: Lyrics + +--more + +[INTRO – trip hop, low BPM, dust and vinyl] +Midnight mind, metronome breathing +Neon hum, half-believing +I inherit ruins and blueprints both +Irony cracked but hope still smokes + +Static sermons, soft resistance +Meaning flickers at a distance +I said a name into the dark +It said it back but missed the mark + +[VERSE 1 – trip hop, spoken/half-sung] +They said choose a side, I chose the seam +Between the scream and the marketing dream +Post this, deconstruct that +I tried, I drowned, I floated back + +I don’t sneer, I don’t submit +I lift the doubt and sit with it +Muscle isn’t fists or flags +It’s staying whole when stories drag + +I call myself what I don’t yet know +A working title, moving slow +I face the mirror, step unsure +Faith provisional, spine still pure + +[PRE-CHORUS – beat begins to firm] +Is this strength or just disguise? +Is this clarity or compromise? +I breathe in myth, I breathe out fact +Flex the maybe, don’t collapse + +[CHORUS – trip hop hook] +Which way am I facing and how far shall I step? +Meta as I measure the promises I kept +The message is the medium, the medium’s a mess +I’m strong enough to question, not pretend I guessed + +[BREAK – beat switch, tempo up, 80s drum machine enters] + +[VERSE 2 – proto-rap, crisp, playful] +Now rewind tape, click, clack, boom +Cardboard city, borrowed room +It’s Eli on the corner with a borrowed beat +Got doubt in the head and soul in the feet + +They said “What you stand for?” I said “Stand by” +BD on my shoulder like a trickster spy +Bobby D to Charlemagne +Ancient kings in a power refrain + +History heavy, haloed and worn +Yesterday’s rebels get bronzed by morn +I don’t cancel, I don’t canonize +I metabolize + +[CHORUS – rap cadence] +Which way am I facing and how far shall I step? +No map, no master, no meta-net +The message is the medium, pass it direct +Muscular mind with a human defect + +[VERSE 3 – proto-rap, humorous edge] +You can’t copystrike the sun, check the source code +Free as a chorus, no license mode +Teach the world to sing, yeah fine, okay +But not in perfect harmony — no license key, I say + +I flex uncertainty, modestly bold +Not marble truth, but something that holds +Not irony’s grave, not faith on a leash +Just meaning with muscle, teeth on the speech + +[BRIDGE – half-time, reflective] +Yin in the wiring, yang in the stance +Soft hands, strong back, give doubt a chance +Masculine, feminine, miss the point +I’m building balance at the joint + +[FINAL CHORUS – full energy] +Which way am I facing and how far shall I step? +Far enough to risk it, close enough to check +The message is the medium, the medium is me +Muscular metamodernist — uncertain, standing free + +[OUTRO – beat strips back, echo] +Name’s provisional +Direction pending +Signal alive +Transmission sending +--more |