[ambient intro, pure tone, no beat, the mantra arrives first like a transmission from before the song begins]
Ik Onkar Sat Naam
Ik Onkar Sat Naam
[verse, grief in the density, slow and heavy, consciousness forgetting itself]
The world feels solid and final
The body
The senses
This name
A point so dense
It forgets what it was
Forgetting on purpose
Just to remember
What it feels like
To arrive
Always reaching
Always arriving
Not yet remembering
[verse, the stirring, something loosening, not dramatic just a tension]
Then something stirs
Not all at once
Just a sense that maybe
This isn’t the whole story
You begin to notice
Movement inside the body
That isn’t just physical
Something opens
Not upward yet
Just inward
And that inward movement
Begins to loosen
What felt fixed
[chorus, first drop, relief in the awakening, wide and luminous]
And then something breaks open
Not violently
More like a remembering
That was waiting for permission
Like coming home
To the most intimate place
I had forgotten I knew
Wonder cascading into more wonder
Not upward exactly
But inward and through
Waiting
For eternity
For me to remember
[verse, grief in the longing, language failing, the current pulling]
The deeper you go
The less language holds
Just the current
Magnetic
Pulling
And the grief of it
Like losing track
Of the most precious part of myself
Like forgetting a word
That was just on your tongue
And spending years
Trying to remember it
An unbearable separation
From truth
But the weeping was birthing
Something expanding
Calling me
To keep looking
[pre-chorus, the dissolution beginning, enacting rather than explaining]
Less language
More current
Less meaning
More pull
Everything being carried
Not by effort
But by something
That was always moving
Not upward
Not even inward
Just a soft steady unraveling
Of everything that says I am only this
[chorus, second drop, the enormous recognition, the biggest moment in the song]
No path
No distance
Nothing at all
Just awareness
Aware of itself
Not as a concept
As direct experience
And then
Even that
Dissolves
[bridge, relief in the remembrance, something clearing]
[long silence]
When it returns
Something clears
A spaciousness
Opening inward
Gratitude
Still pond
Underneath the waves
[sung]
The whole journey
Consciousness playing hide and seek
Inside a map it drew
Of its own nature
[spoken — three words only, the answer arriving like a transmission]
I never left
[final verse, the arrival, soft and certain]
What remains
Doesn’t need a map
Was never on one
Truth
Peace
Stillness
Home
Always
Already
Here
[outro, the mantra returns, the whole song has happened inside it, warmer now, recognized]
Ik Onkar Sat Naam
Ik Onkar Sat Naam
Always Already Here
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