[ambient formless intro, no beat, pure texture and tone, like the moment before anything exists] Before the first shape Before the first sound Something without color Something without ground
Formless Potential Already Whole
[verse, geological pulse begins slow then accelerates, evolutionary rush building like a time lapse] You are the weight before weight had a name The first green thing pushing through Belly on the earth Everything is texture, everything is now
Then swimming Weightless for the first time Light moving differently Sound moving differently
Then walking Then running Then lifting into the air
Instinct Sensation Hunger Aliveness
[build, held breath, the impossible arriving, tension at its peak] And then
Something new Enters the world
[chorus, first drop, the human awakening, confused and searching, the question not yet knowing it's a question] Something that stops Mid breath And wonders At its own wondering
Not just another creature Something that pauses In the middle of living
And doesn't know why
[verse, first person now, the inward turn, slow and strange and vertiginous] I feel the loosening Like a hand unclenching That I didn't know Had been a fist
What once felt solid Is starting to breathe The structures holding me together Beginning to remember They were always optional
Through layers I didn't know Were layers Into something That has no edges
And it is terrifying For exactly one moment Before it becomes The most familiar thing I've ever felt
[pre-chorus, dark layered synths building, mind making worlds, trippy and vertiginous] And the mind builds entire worlds And I dissolve into them Every time Every time
Worlds inside worlds Inside worlds Inside
But somewhere beyond The shifting landscapes Something else Is waiting
[chorus, the enormous recognition drop, biggest moment in the song, wide and luminous breaking through the dark] What am I What am I What am I
Always already Always already Whole
What am I
The whole
[bridge, collective we, beat slowing and dissolving, just the list and the silence and the question] Stone Plant Animal Human
[silence]
What am I Really
[spoken — two words only, delivered like a transmission from outside the song] Already Whole
[outro, beat dissolves entirely, same texture as intro but warmer, recognized, like coming home to a place you never left] Formless Potential Already Whole
Always Already Here
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