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diff --git a/eli/message/muscular/track.eno b/eli/message/muscular/track.eno deleted file mode 100644 index 3ca8a50..0000000 --- a/eli/message/muscular/track.eno +++ /dev/null @@ -1,96 +0,0 @@ -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 |