## Entry nine: ride the wave (10/23/26, 2232) [Intro - Spoken] so today my goal is to maybe try something a little different; the word of the day is a bit more involved, "distress tolerance". not quite sure what I'm going to do with it, but I will proceed to do the shit regardless? [Bridge - Serene choir chants] to find the center align and enter define what renders itself as contender what lies inside and diseases the ride cannot halt it no matter how snide [Hook - Anthemic, chanted] ride the wave, ride the wave no matter how it plays it's okay to not be okay ride the wave, ride the wave take a moment to breathe identify what you believe versus what is known and see the difference that results is peace [Gang Shouts] RIDE THE WAVE RIDE THE WAVE RIDE THE WAVE RIDE THE WAVE INVENTORY IS MADE AVAILABLE TO PERVADE REASON AND EMOTION A TOOLKIT TO SAVE [Verse - Hostile, aggressive] WANNA PLAY A GAME HERE I HAVE SOME PAIN COGNITIVE STRAIN THE OLD FAMILIAR DISDAIN REGRET AND WHAT YOU YET HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO REFRAME EMBARRASSMENTS AND SHAME DO YOU THINK YOU CAN REFRAIN? TRY THIS ONE ON FOR SIZE ALL YOUR FRIENDS JUST LIED TO YOU AND SECRETLY DESPISE YOU AND YOUR SILLY LIES YOU'RE AN IMPOSTOR A FRAUD NOT GOOD ENOUGH AN AFFRONT TO GOD THINK YOU CAN HANDLE THAT? RIDE THAT WAVE? FACE THAT FACT? [Bridge - Unstable, but determined] 5 things around me that I can see walls, halls, a phone, my hands, my feet 4 things that I can feel a blanket, the pain in my arms the air circulation, the heat revealed 3 things I can hear? a television, my music, an AC is near two things I can smell? this one I can never really tell my olfactory capacity ain't swell one thing I can taste? the failure of distress to take a hold and place within my mind and cause a race [Hook - Anthemic, chanted] ride the wave, ride the wave no matter how it plays it's okay to not be okay ride the wave, ride the wave take a moment to breathe identify what you believe versus what is known and see the difference that results is peace [Breakdown - Alternating clean and screamed vocals] ride the wave don't stray YOU CAN'T HOPE TO ESCAPE retain your dignity and stay SEE ALL OF THE DISMAY resolute in the stance today DONT YOU SEE THE DECAY today is just another day DON'T YOU WISH FOR A BETTER WAY [Gang Shouts] RIDE THE WAVE RIDE THE WAVE RIDE THE WAVE RIDE THE WAVE INVENTORY IS MADE AVAILABLE TO PERVADE REASON AND EMOTION A TOOLKIT TO SAVE [Verse - defiant, rapid fire cadence] insouciant and aloof, this is my truth I refuse to choose to bow in deference to a transient and fleeting feeling construed as the end of the world in how it imbued hyper salient fixation on some condemnation of the state of external reality's situation I can stop and breathe and remember that what comes next isn't pre-rendered this is the blade that can dismember the fear and anxiety engendered by a hyperactive mind trying to disinter a rational motive it might infer out of the model it maintains within heur- istic space to reason and plan your actions, motives, rationale and passions a feeling doesn't have to be amassing experiential influence and weight past anything more than internal state predictions for a preference for change and the signaling patterns that remain we are just models modeling models, really forever trapped in this loop, kinda silly to take it so serious unless it's seriously silly casu consulto is the stance, for brevity approach all things with grounded levity [Bridge - Lively jazzy choir chants] A lesson in expression and the forward progression like what is the weapon that grounds your obsession? Serious and Silly align in syzygy and then meet in synergy to sublate past any enemy and overcome in [Extended Breakdown - Symphonic, Ethereal, Intense] SYMPHONY SING ME A SONG OF INNER PEACE BRING ME ALONG TO TENDER EASE REMEMBER THE TOOLKIT YOU BROUGHT THE RESOLVE THAT YOU'VE GOT ARE YOU AFRAID? USE THAT AS FUEL CONSUME THE FEAR, IT IS A TOOL TURN IT UPON ITSELF AND TRANSCEND UNTIL GROUNDED STATE RESUMES AGAIN [Verse - Hostile, aggressive] YOU KEEP TRYING TO ESCAPE BUT YOU KNOW I AM FATE REALIZE THAT YOUR INTERNAL HATE AND BECOME DEVOURED BY— [Bridge - Serene choir chants] to find the center align and enter define what renders itself as contender what lies inside and diseases the ride cannot halt it no matter how snide [Hook - Anthemic, chanted] ride the wave, ride the wave no matter how it plays it's okay to not be okay ride the wave, ride the wave take a moment to breathe identify what you believe versus what is known and see the difference that results is peace [Gang Shouts] RIDE THE WAVE RIDE THE WAVE RIDE THE WAVE RIDE THE WAVE INVENTORY IS MADE AVAILABLE TO PERVADE REASON AND EMOTION A TOOLKIT TO SAVE
