Alpha & Omega

[Verse 1]
First cry in a hospital room
Fluorescent hum, plastic balloons
Mama say, "baby, just breathe"
Not knowing what the world gon’ be
Tiny wrist in a paper band
Name in ink, future in the hands
Of people just guessing the plan
Like maps drawn in the sand
I was raised where the sirens pray
Candles on corners for lives they take
Laugh in the yard, chalk by the gate
Joy and a gravestone share the same space
[Chorus]
From the first breath to the last one
Every heartbeat writes a caption
Life and death in the same frame, overlapping
I was made from the dark and the sun
From the beginning I’ve been asking
What’s the start, what’s the end, what’s the answer
If I vanish in the night like a phantom
Let my words be the part that stays
Alpha to omega in my veins
[Verse 2]
Funeral suit never fit quite right
Neck too tight when I watch them slide
That box down, dirt on my white Nikes
Thinking, "that’s it? just quiet?"
Old heads say, "we just pass through"
We the rain, we the grass, we the glass roof
We the names that they carve, we the classroom
Where pain turn to prayer in the back pew
I seen birth in a backseat, rush hour
Baby scream louder than the towers
Whole world paused for a second
Like the sky took a breath just to bless it
So I learned it’s a circle, not a straight line
Every goodbye grew a grapevine
Every lost soul in the daytime
Still talk to me soft in the bassline
[Chorus]
From the first breath to the last one
Every heartbeat writes a caption
Life and death in the same frame, overlapping
I was made from the dark and the sun
From the beginning I’ve been asking
What’s the start, what’s the end, what’s the answer
If I vanish in the night like a phantom
Let my words be the part that stays
Alpha to omega in my veins
[Bridge]
If this all fades when the lights cut
Will the love stay in the fibers of the old rug?
In the voicemail saved in your old phone
In the jokes that you tell when you walk home
Maybe heaven is a moment that we shared once
Hell is every second that we stare stuck
At the things we can’t change, so we pray luck
While the clock still running in our bare lungs (yeah)
[Chorus]
From the first breath to the last one
Every heartbeat writes a caption
Life and death in the same frame, overlapping
I was made from the dark and the sun
From the beginning I’ve been asking
What’s the start, what’s the end, what’s the answer
If I vanish in the night like a phantom
Let my words be the part that stays
Alpha to omega in my veins

rap, Lyrical hip hop with a warm, melodic sample loop, swung drums, and deep bass. Male vocals, intimate and reflective on the verses; chorus opens up with stacked harmonies and airy pads. Subtle piano top line and distant vocal chops swell into the hook, then strip back to kick, snare, and bass for contemplative pockets., lyrical, hip hop