Measured in Unknowns

(Intro – muted polyrhythm, 7/8 feel against 4/4 pulse)

Count it clean, count it straight
Lines you draw to validate
Every win pre-calculated
Every loss… eliminated

Ghost notes under every claim
You don’t play a dangerous game
You don’t gamble, you arrange
You don’t risk—you just rename

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(Verse 1 – tight, percussive, low register)

You crown yourself in shallow rings
Of victories with clipped-out wings
You speak in scales that favor you
Then call it truth, then call it proof

You spar with shadows on the wall
Then flex like you defeated all
A titan—only in your frame
Where every metric fits your name

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(Pre-Chorus – tension build, syncopated accents)

But pressure doesn’t ask consent
And force is blind to argument
The axis tilts, the numbers bend
And all your clean equations end

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(Chorus – melodic but heavy, 4/4 anchor)

You don’t know the weight they hold
The quiet wars never told
Not every scar is meant to show
Not every loss means letting go

You measure strength in what you see
But miss the unseen gravity
You raise your voice, declare your throne
But you’ve never stood… alone

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(Verse 2 – more aggressive phrasing, layered rhythms)

Time doesn’t care who “won” the round
It buries kings without a sound
Entropy eats perfect plans
And chance slips knives into your hands

You mock the ones who couldn’t stand
But never felt the shifting sand
Never fought a losing slope
With broken tools and borrowed hope

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(Breakdown – djent, staggered phrasing, rhythmic choke)

Cut
The
Scale

You never felt the drag
Of a world that pulls you back
Every step—double weight
Every breath—second late

Say you’re strong?
Say it loud
Say it standing
In that crowd

Now strip it down
No control
No advantage
No role

Would you still—
Be whole?

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(Bridge – atmospheric, expansive, almost philosophical)

Some are fighting tides you’ve never seen
Undercurrents pull beneath the clean
You judge the fall without the frame
But different storms don’t fall the same

There’s a math beneath the skin
Variables you’re never in
You solve for x with half the page
Then laugh like wisdom comes with age

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(Final Chorus – bigger, layered, slight lift in melody)

You don’t know the weight they hold
The hidden math, the untold load
Not every silence means they’re weak
Some battles don’t announce or speak

You build your crown on easy ground
Then shout like you’ve defied the sound
But gravity is patient, known…
And it comes for every throne

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(Outro – stripped, haunting, asymmetrical phrasing)

Measured…
Not in wins…

But what it took
To stand…
Within

Prog/math metal djent, polyrhythmic riffs, heavy syncopation, dynamic breakdowns, atmospheric bridge, melodic chorus