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Ego Death

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🜂 The Name Fell Off [🌀 Verse 1] Found a little door where the breathing colors bloom At the edge of the candle in the back of the room There was a hum in the walls like a thousand hidden wings And a river made of mirrors started swallowing things I had a pocket full of daylight and a head full of rain Then the floor slipped backward and forgot my name Every thought turned crystal, every crystal turned to sand And the voice that said “I am” let go of my hand ⸻ [☁️ Chorus] Then the name fell off, and the shape blew wide No more me to carry, no more place to hide Just a wheel of fire in a field of sound Where the up was gone and the truth spun round No fear left standin’, no mask, no face Just a bright white hush in a violet place And the thing I called self was a coat on a chair When the light moved through me, there was nobody there ⸻ [🌌 Verse 2] Saw a thousand eyes in a lantern made of bone Each one knew my story though I’d never been alone They did not speak in language, they did not need to explain They just opened up the center and unstitched the frame Then the room became geometry, singing without words And the silence flew in circles like a flock of golden birds All the grief I’d gathered melted into thread And the thread wove constellations through the place inside my head ⸻ [🔥 Hook] I was a bell without a tower, I was smoke without a flame I was every road I’d walked on before I had a name A drop slipped in the ocean, then the ocean drank the drop And the one who came to witness was the first thing that got lost ⸻ [🌿 Verse 3] Then I met a faceless gardener in a garden made of tone He said, “The fruit you’ve been protectin’ never really was your own” Then he touched the crown of nowhere sittin’ just above my fear And the whole wide spinning palace folded inward, bright and clear I saw my life like paper in a wild electric wind Saw the roles and robes and ribbons and the masks I’d once been in Then the masks turned into feathers, then the feathers turned to light Then the light became a doorway and the doorway took a bite ⸻ [🛌 Bridge / Dub Space] Was I dyin’? (Echo: “dyin’…”) Was I free? (Echo: “was I free…”) Was it the end of me or the end of who I’d be? (Echo: “who I’d be…”) Did I vanish? (Echo: “vanish…”) Did I bloom? (Echo: “did I bloom…”) Why the stars came pouring through the ceiling of the room? (Echo: “of the room…”) ⸻ [☁️ Chorus] Then the name fell off, and the shape blew wide No more me to carry, no more place to hide Just a wheel of fire in a field of sound Where the up was gone and the truth spun round No fear left standin’, no mask, no face Just a bright white hush in a violet place And the thing I called self was a coat on a chair When the light moved through me, there was nobody there ⸻ [🌅 Outro] When I came back down, the morning wore gold And the hands on the clock looked suddenly old I still walk this earth, still answer my name But some part of me returned with a different flame Now I keep that silence folded under my skin Like a place I disappeared to and returned from within And when the world gets heavy, I remember that stare When the light moved through me and there was nobody ther