[Engine idling] [Ratchet] [Shamisen answers] Funny thing about an engine— Sometimes you know Exactly what's wrong. Still can't fix it. Part ain't here. So what you gonna do? Stare at it? Nah. Roll me Bay Two. [BEAT] [Verse 1] I know what's missing I know where it goes Know which little piece Would make the whole thing close But I can't manufacture What ain't mine to make Can't wrench another person Into choosing what they ain't So I wipe my hands Look around the shop Heart says stay here Mind says— Don't stop. There's another motor waiting Another problem I can solve If this one needs tomorrow Today I'm getting involved [Chorus] I don't idle I build Can't fix this? Fix something else Hands moving Head clears Turn the wrench Shift the gears I don't run from love I give the love a job If I can't build us I still build I still build I still build [SUB] [Verse 2] See— Idle too long And my thinking gets loud Same thought Same loop Same lap Same crowd But give me three problems And something to make Now the noise starts separating And the signal gets space Some people need silence I need motion to hear One hand on tomorrow One hand shifting a gear Music on Numbers open Notebook beside Funny— My mind gets still When my hands are occupied [Ratchet rhythm] That's how Cosmic got built Heart had nowhere to go So I gave it microphones And somewhere to grow Built a channel Built a language Built a world from the ache Turned the questions I was carrying Into something I could make That's how discipline stacked That's how percentages grew While somebody saw obsession I saw work I could do Not because money Could replace who I missed Because building reminded me— I still exist. [Chorus] I don't idle I build Missing part? Leave it still Work the bench Work the plan Build the things Inside my hands I don't run from love I give the love a job If I can't build us I still build Build Build Build [Beat strips] [Pipa] [Bridge] There's a car In the corner Covered up Waiting there And every now and then I still walk over Lift the cover Check the air Nothing changed. Part still missing. Okay. Cover it back up. What else Needs fixing? [SUB DROP] [Verse 3] That's the lesson— Love ain't failure Just because it can't resolve Some equations need another hand Before they can be solved And another person's piece Isn't mine To fabricate So I don't counterfeit the part And call the damn thing fate I let love be love Let absence be true Let what belongs to somebody else Belong to them too Then I turn toward the bench Where responsibility lives Because creation is the place Where all this energy Can give Give me music Give me numbers Give me systems Give me plans Give me four things at once Watch me finally understand I don't multitask Because my mind has lost control Sometimes multiple moving pieces Are exactly How I find the whole [TAIKO] [Final Chorus] I don't idle I build Love gets heavy? Build still Can't move that? Move this Can't solve that? Create this Hands moving Mind clears Brick by brick Year by year I don't bury love I don't make it disappear I build something beautiful While I wait For what becomes clear [Engine starts] [MASTER MECHANIC VOICE] You hear that? [VOICE] Yeah. [MASTER] That's what happens When the part fits. Don't force it. [Shamisen] [Engine settles into perfect idle] [VOICE] Bay Three. [MASTER laughs] That's my boy. [End]
