[Cold Open — emergency tone] [BEEP] [Female Announcement] warning signal detected [DASnot] from where? [Female] everywhere [three distorted game-show bells] [DASnot] that's encouraging [808 drops] [Verse 1 — DASnot] you birth life in this world hold it down nine months then poof new creation little bit of both of us next generation inherit all the questions welcome to existence here's uncertainty and directions written backwards ongoing process every day same basic fact brain trying not to go whack while the floor keep moving back somebody left a line of facts right where I could slip fell straight into the trap [Female Announcement] participant has entered the trap [DASnot] no shit rewind it back play slow rehearse the track skin cold control gone little fractures turn to cracks holes inside the places nobody remembered had a wall everybody yelling hurry nobody knows where we're going at all [Pre-Hook — Crowd] WARNING WARNING WARNING [Hook — DASnot + Crowd] that's the warning signal [BEEP BEEP] hear it when the room gets still that's the warning signal [Group] TOO LATE [DASnot] yeah probably but listen still life make something life break something next one born inherits both if the air keep getting colder that's the warning signal in your throat [Verse 2 — beat becomes stranger] different versions same excursion new corners old confusion cheesy grin in the middle of extinction like [DASnot laughs] who approved this production? ghetto soldiers heavy revolvers everybody built like boulders until gravity gets involved days ahead get sideways laying flat air colder I got folders full of written jokes none of them make me feel older head hit pavement world kept spinning funny how the sky don't flinch pressure from the top come down blood run nose to chin [Female Announcement] pain threshold exceeded [DASnot] whose? [Female] yes [Hook] that's the warning signal [BEEP BEEP] hear it when the room gets still that's the warning signal [Group] TOO LATE [DASnot] you keep saying that like it's useful life make something life break something everybody pay the toll if the future starts approaching with its headlights off that's the warning signal [Corrupted Game Show Section] [bright cheap bells] [fake applause] [Female Game-Show Voice] CONGRATULATIONS! you have won— [DASnot] what? [Female] ANOTHER DAY [DASnot] that's the prize? [Female] terms and conditions apply [DASnot] of course they fucking do [Audience Chant] SPIN! SPIN! SPIN! [DASnot] I ain't spinning shit [wheel sound accelerates] [Female] choose your category: birth debt fear violence purpose [DASnot] can I phone a friend? [Female] they stopped answering [ALL MUSIC CUTS] [low funeral horn] [DASnot, close] there it is [Verse 3 — beat rebuilds underneath] warning ain't prophecy warning means you still got seconds maybe one maybe twenty enough to question where you're stepping every scar ain't wisdom every loss ain't some damn lesson sometimes pavement just pavement blood just blood pressure just pressure but I'm still here reading signals from a page I wrote before trying to tell the newer me what the older me saw coming for him nine months then out the door whole world waiting with a clipboard name? purpose? reason? [DASnot] I'm still working on it [Bridge — high distorted double answers lead] [DASnot] rewind it [High Double] BACK [DASnot] play slow [High Double] SLOW [DASnot] rehearse it [High Double] WHY? [DASnot] so when the shit comes back around at least I know the noise [Final Hook — huge, crowded] WARNING SIGNAL [BEEP] WARNING SIGNAL [horn blast] NEW LIFE OLD DAMAGE NEW NAME SAME PLANET WARNING SIGNAL [Group] WE HEAR IT [DASnot] good don't mean we understand it [Outro — beat starts malfunctioning] [Female Announcement] next generation approaching [DASnot] tell 'em we're cleaning up [Female] that would be inaccurate [DASnot] tell 'em we're trying [pause] [Female] ...acceptable [BEEP] [DASnot] there that's the signal [one massive sub hit] [end]
