**[Intro]** One more map… (keep going) One more veil… One more night paid down For the right to understand. **[Verse 1]** We spend too much of what we are Digging where it never hid. We open books like open wounds And make the shadow talk. We force the images to speak And wear our zeal like proof. Each step we take to go “beyond” Walks us off the stoop. We search like men afraid to stay And meet the face they are. **[Pre-chorus]** The quest still feeds the hungry “I.” It gives him work. It gives him pride. It gives him one more alibi So he does not have to stop. **[Chorus]** We search, we burn, we spend the night As if the Absolute were earned. Too much fire for a door That never turned for strain. Search. Search. Run yourself down to the bone And call the running holy. **[Verse 2]** The gatekeeper loves a man who hunts. The longer that you look, he works. He sorts, he stamps, he points ahead : “Further. Purer. Higher still.” Gnosis loves the same old climb — It turns your thirst into a crown. But He Who Is is not the prize Waiting at the hallway’s end. **[Pre-chorus]** You spend the breath you do not own To seize what already holds you. **[Chorus]** Better to be found than spend Another night to buy the door. Better to lay the hunter down Than crown the one who cannot stop. He did not wait upon your proof. He did not need your zeal to be. To be found is what remains When seeking has no god to sell. **[Bridge]** Stop — Not as a trick, As a confession. (let go) You do not have to find Him out. You have to quit the flight From where you are already seen. To be found is not a win. It is a quiet shame. No map. No merit. No “almost there.” Only the gaze that stayed While you were running. **[Breakdown]** Search again if you want. (go ahead) Pile the nights. Pile the pages. At the end you do not hold. He held you While you hunted Not to be seen. [Solo] **[Final chorus]** Better to be found than spend. Better to drop the seeker’s crown. He did not wait. He did not need. Stay, and lose the hunter. Search. Search. Or close the map And remain. **[Outro]** Close the map. (shut it) Stay. You were already found Before you learned the word “search.”
