[Intro] [extremely low sub-bass drone, almost subsonic, felt in the chest more than heard, no percussion, no guitar yet, a distant cold synth hum bleeding in underneath like machine static settling into silence] [spoken, slow and even, mythic and unbothered] I was born before your grandfather's grandfather learned to fear the dark. I've worn a thousand skylines like a coat I keep changing. Empire, machine, corporation, cage — I never needed the same face twice. I don't need your permission to become your future. I already am. I was always tomorrow. [Verse] [single soft, melodic analog synth line finally enters, sparse, cold and patient, more lullaby than lead] I've watched your cities grow outward I've watched your cities grow upward I've watched the towers learn to blot the sun Watched the sprawl swallow the ground it stood upon Some of you call it progress, call it home Some of you call it a cage with better light I don't correct you, don't explain it I just wait for the rise to become the fall [Swell] [single heavy, slow distorted guitar chord enters here, ballad-weight rather than aggression, sustained and mournful, drums entering softly underneath as just a heartbeat pulse, nothing more] Every tomorrow comes home to me I don't chase, I don't beg, I don't plead City, machine, empire, and memory Every one of them ends with me [Outro] [the swell recedes, sub-bass drone returns alone, cold synth hum fading slowly] ...tomorrow lost... ...tomorrow was always mine to keep... ...I was always tomorrow... [End]
