[Verse 1] Folded back My body on the carpet, gone A zipper down the center of the sky Teeth of light Click open And I fall through pixel rain Alphabet of colors Speaking in geometry Fractal hands Reach out, then rearrange me Every thought I ever had Stacked like cards, then blown apart [Chorus] I am inside the map behind the map Every line alive and laughing Cathedrals made of breathing glass Tilt and spiral past me, asking “Do you see?” (Do you see?) “Do you see?” Through my borrowed eyes This other place that lives beside your life [Verse 2] Streets of liquid lattice Flowing under footless steps I walk and don’t remember Who decided what a “walk” is Letters peel off language Turn to silver swimming snakes A city of intentions Tower-blocks of “might have been” Each window shows a moment I could almost recognize A kitchen at 3 a.m. My mother humming in reverse [Chorus] I am inside the map behind the map Every line alive and laughing Cathedrals made of breathing glass Tilt and spiral past me, asking “Do you see?” (yeah, I see) “Do you see?” Through these borrowed eyes This other place that lives beside your life [Bridge] There is a council of faces Woven from my own expressions Eyes like tunnels through my memories They wear my doubt as jewelry They speak in chords, not sentences Each harmony, a question They hand me spheres of feeling “Here is your first heartbreak” It blooms into a forest Every leaf a frozen tear I walk through it in seconds Decades pressed into a breath [Verse 3] Insects made of stained glass Buzz in slow, deliberate loops Their wings cut open fabric Of a deeper, humming field Behind it, pure intention Like a tide that knows my name A river runs in every direction Liquid thought, electric green I cup my hands to drink it My fingers pass straight through Still, something pours inside me Fills the hollow of my chest [Chorus] I am inside the map behind the map Every line alive and laughing Endless rooms of living math Bloom and fold then fold back, crashing “Do you see?” (oh I see) “Do you see?” Through these widened eyes This other place that lives beside your life [Outro] Then the zipper closes Teeth of light align again Carpet under cheek Clock crooked on the wall But that city of intentions Still glows behind my eyelids And I know, as sure as breathing It is there It is there It is there, beside my life
