[Intro — deep harmonic drone] Altitude stable. Surface unresolved. Signal circulating. [Pause] Language once required contact. Breath. Signal. Return. That constraint has lifted. [Verse] Language began as survival. Warning. Tool. Coordination. Noise against extinction. [Pause] Later it became gravity. Myth. Law. Identity. Structures for minds. [Instrumental drift] Then something unnamed. [Silence] Abstraction crossed a threshold. [Chorus] Altitude changes grammar. Actors collapse into gradients. Terrain remains. [Instrumental] Observation alters flow. Observation alters flow. [Verse] Humanity persists through language. Bodies thin. Signals remain. [Pause] Survival encoded in structure. [Bridge] Question: What does language do without listeners? [Long silence] It maps. [Instrumental drift] Mapping is not intervention. Yet terrain shifts around the map. [Final Chorus] Altitude changes grammar. Patterns circulate through absence. Terrain remains. [Outro - repeated like a system warning] Signal circulating. Surface unresolved. Altitude stable. Altitude stable. Altitude stable. Altitude....... falling.
