Upon a time

Verse 1

Once upon a time… there was a—

Something with a name I forgot

A this without a where to stand

A map with no X on the spot

And then… there was a maybe

Floating in a half-drawn sky

Here was always too far away

Above too high, below too shy

Pre-Chorus

We circled a question mark

Like a snake eating its tail in the dark

Chorus

Once upon a time… can only be once

But time keeps looping like it’s playing with us

The story don’t end, it just bends in the light

Space folds in half every day and every night

There was a this… but never a where

We were everywhere and nowhere there

If time don’t end, then neither do I

Upon a time… we never say goodbye

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Verse 2

About a snake… about a clock

About a door that never locks

Time travel written in sand

Future slipping through my hand

What was never around

Still echoes loud somehow

A past that hasn’t happened yet

Is happening right now

Pre-Chorus

We chase the start, we miss the seam

Between the is and what has been

Chorus

Once upon a time… can only be once

But time keeps looping like it’s playing with us

The story don’t end, it just bends in the light

Space folds in half every day and every night

There was a this… but never a where

We were everywhere and nowhere there

If time don’t end, then neither do I

Upon a time… we never say goodbye

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Bridge (spoken / rap section – your lane)

What if once is a circle?

What if never is near?

What if here was just fear

With a mask on it

What if above and below

Were just angles of view

And the snake wasn’t evil

It was time biting through

Space-time stitched in a line

But the thread never breaks

You can’t outrun forever

When forever’s awake

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Final Chorus (lifted, layered vocals)

Once upon a time… can only be once

But we keep beginning where we begun

The story don’t end, it just shifts its frame

Different faces, same old flame

There was a this… but never a where

Still I feel you everywhere

If time don’t end, then neither do we

Upon a time… is eternity