[VERSE 1] Finite physics, finite eyes Finite hours beneath infinite skies Everywhere is something Everything demands a name But the mind has a mouth And the mouth cannot swallow the frame Small mind, small mouth Open only so wide Give it simple little morsels Give it somewhere safe to reside It hungers for a pattern It bargains for the known Builds a little shelter Then mistakes the shelter for safe home [PRE-CHORUS] But the maelstrom turns And the old coordinates fail When the ground beneath the grammar Starts rewriting every scale [CHORUS] What is not mentioned Is not made unreal What falls outside the story Still bleeds, still breathes, still feels Don't let the silence teach you What the silence cannot prove Don't let a painted virtue Tell you what you ought to choose When the whole machine reverses And the certainties corrode Keep your eyes beyond the narrative Keep your hands upon the road [VERSE 2] Every hatred learns the language Of the righteous and the pure Every cruelty finds a doctrine Every poison finds a cure A banner can be spotless While the hands beneath are stained A sermon can sound holy While the architecture chains Remember what is absent Remember what is screened The missing piece is still a piece The unseen wound can still rewound Reality exceeds the rhetoric The map is not the land know every polished explanation Leaves something out of hand [VERSE 3] Kept classes kept divided Fed a feud and taught to bite Turn the wounded toward the wounded Call the conflict social light Give them enemies to worship Give them reasons to despise Keep their vision pointed sideways While the ceiling rises high Make them fight for scraps Make them sanctify the cage Make survival look like virtue Make resentment pass for rage Then congratulate the fragments For the violence they endure While the structure stays invisible And calls itself secure [CHORUS] What is not mentioned Is not made unreal What falls outside the story Still bleeds, still breathes, still feels Don't let the silence teach you What the silence cannot prove Don't let phoney painted virtue Tell you what you ought to choose When the whole machine reverses And the certainties corrode Keep your eyes beyond the narrative Keep your soul upon the road [BRIDGE] Eighty years of erosion Contract thinning thread by thread Inherited contradictions Living systems under debt Clawing for the private portion While the common fabric tears Every faction guards its corner Every generation inherits repairs Ignorance is easily weaponized Fear is easily sold A population kept distracted Can be conquered without being told But don't confuse the screaming For the sum of what is true And don't mistake the offered target For the thing that's hunting you [BREAKDOWN] Don't be a fool Don't rent out your sight Don't let a narrative Tell you who to hate tonight If it targets you Look twice If it targets someone you love Look twice If it needs a scapegoat To make its arithmetic work If it needs the wounded To blame the wounded for the hurt Look twice [FINAL CHORUS] What is not mentioned Still exists beyond the frame What they bury under language Doesn't vanish with the name Every story has an aperture Every witness has a blind side Truth is larger than the mouth That claims to hold it inside When the system enters reversal And the old assurances implode Keep enough mind for contradiction Keep enough heart for the unknown Don't inherit ancient hatred Don't applaud old powers demand Don't become another weapon Placed inside arisen hand [OUTRO] Finite eyes Infinite world Finite mouth Unfinished word What is omitted Still remains What is forgotten Still returns Look wider Think deeper Choose what you carry And refuse To become The thing They aim at Each other To protect. ignorance the defect inspect faith lead proud transparent exodus
