[Intro] [TANGENT] Record club. [DOGS] So wow many times did the Fraction die? [TANGENT] Venal. Domain. Lonetrek. Providence. [DEATH] KBP Syndicate Domain Bleaklands [DOGS] That's not dying. That's a hobby. [DEATH] Keep reading. [ALL] ONE! TWO! ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR! [Verse 1 — TANGENT] They lost the dream in Venal, lost the faith in Domain, lost the vibe in Lonetrek, burned in Providence again. Ships exploded. People vanished. Friends got tired and walked away. Every funeral became another reason not to stay. Then the broadcast says: We are not the revolution. We are only passing through. People break. Ideas travel. Morning starts without you. [Pre-Chorus] [GLITCH] FINE! GET UP AGAIN! [DOGS] WE ALWAYS DO! [DEATH] BUT IF YOU WAKE UP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE— [ALL] WHAT THE FUCK DID DYING TEACH YOU? [Chorus] [ALL] DON’T GET UP THE SAME! [GANG] GET UP DIFFERENT! LOSE THE SHIP— NOT THE QUESTION! BREAK THE PLAN— NOT THE DREAM! IF THE METHOD FUCKING FAILED THEN CHANGE THE FUCKING MACHINE! FALL DOWN! LEARN SOMETHING! COME BACK WITH ANOTHER NAME! THE REVOLUTION CAN SURVIVE— BUT DON’T GET UP THE SAME! [Verse 2 — GLITCH] Here's the flaw. If winning proves you right— and losing proves your courage— and collapse proves you transcend collapse— then nothing proves you wrong. [DOGS] That's convenient. [GLITCH] That's theology. [DEATH] Or morale. [GLITCH] Depends what happens next. Do you inspect the wreckage? Change command? Drop the doctrine? Ask whether the enemy was right about anything? Or call every crater martyrdom and drive into the next? [Pre-Chorus] [TANGENT] SURVIVAL ISN'T LEARNING! [DEATH] DEFIANCE ISN'T PROOF! [DOGS] AND A PHOENIX THAT KEEPS BURNING— [GLITCH] MAY JUST BE FIREPROOF. [Chorus] [ALL] DON’T GET UP THE SAME! [GANG] GET UP DIFFERENT! LOSE THE SHIP— NOT THE QUESTION! BREAK THE PLAN— NOT THE DREAM! YOU CAN KEEP THE FUCKING PURPOSE WITHOUT WORSHIPPING THE MACHINE! FALL DOWN! LEARN SOMETHING! COME BACK WITH ANOTHER NAME! THE REVOLUTION CAN SURVIVE— BUT DON’T GET UP THE SAME! [Verse 3 — DOGS] Here's my version. Engine blows. Fine. You don't salute the engine. You find out why it blew. Replace the fucking coolant line. Stop buying that reactor. Maybe don't let Tangent wire the jump drive after drinking. [TANGENT] That happened once. [GLITCH] Three times. [DOGS] Point is— you can love the destination and still admit the route was shit. You can bury half the handbook without burying the bit that made you start. [DEATH] There. [Break — stripped] [DEATH] Maybe the revolution doesn't need immortality. Maybe it needs mutation. A question carried forward by people who aren't obligated to preserve the answer. A failed tactic can die. A failed institution can die. A failed leader can be wrong. [small pause] What matters is whether somebody else still asks: Why this hierarchy? Why this cage? Why this master? Why not something else? [build] [TANGENT] Then resurrection means something. [GLITCH] Because something changed. [DOGS] Not just the fucking date. [Final Chorus] [ALL] DON’T GET UP THE SAME! [GANG] GET UP DIFFERENT! LOSE THE SHIP— NOT THE QUESTION! BREAK THE PLAN— NOT THE DREAM! BURN THE MAP IF THE MAP WAS WRONG! KEEP THE REASON YOU SET OUT! FALL DOWN! LEARN SOMETHING! LET THE OLD MACHINE STAY DEAD! THE REVOLUTION DOESN'T NEED THE SAME DAMN PEOPLE— THE SAME DAMN PLAN— THE SAME DAMN WORDS— AGAIN! [GANG] DON’T GET UP THE SAME! DON’T GET UP THE SAME! [Outro] [DOGS] So dying is allowed? [GLITCH] Obviously. [DOGS] Failure? [TANGENT] Necessary, sometimes. [DOGS] Repeating it? [DEATH] That's when we start taking notes. [DOGS] Fuck. Record club concluded.
