[Intro - single pedal steel note sustains, train rhythm enters, vast reverb, desert atmosphere] [Verse 1 - acoustic guitar, intimate vocal, wide space around each line, pedal steel responds] Astral Projection Honed her mind like a weapon Starry eyes turned to heaven Lost herself at the seven eleven Fluorescent lights and questions Searching aisles for a lesson Something in her chest kept pressing Like a second resurrection [Pre-Hook - pedal steel bends rise slowly, vocal grows in intensity, desert wind in the distance] She said she on that real shit Can you feel it Haven't felt it since I was a kid Sippin truth from the id My crown got popped like a lid Couldn't stop it, I hid But you can't run from within [Chorus - yodel technique on held notes, pedal steel swells, train rhythm drives forward] Same river different name Same soul different frame You keep coming back the same Till you remember why you came Can't run Can't run Can't run from within The light was never lost You just forgot to let it in [Verse 2 - even sparser, vast silence between lines, train rhythm barely audible] Time skip Mind slippin again You forgot your mission again Born into the same old skin Different face same origin Searching outside what lives within You been here before You'll be here again [Chorus - yodel higher and more yearning, pedal steel reaches highest bend] Same river different name Same soul different frame You keep coming back the same Till you remember why you came Can't run Can't run Can't run Can't run Can't run from The light was never lost You just forgot to let it in [Verse 3 - most emotional, pedal steel weeps, yodel emerges on "Rises back"] Gravity center Anti reality bender She cracked the code Returned to sender Every life she failed to remember Every flame reduced to ember Rises back in late December Rises back [Bridge - spoken over single guitar chord, barely above a whisper, no rhythm at all] Government made fractals Intergalactic particles of matter Every truth they tried to scatter Lives inside her Always had her Crown intact They couldn't shatter What was never theirs to have her [Outro - train rhythm slows and fades, pedal steel holds final note, yodel fades into the desert] Can't run Can't run Can't run from within She remembered She remembered What she'd always been Not the body Not the lesson Not the seven eleven Just the light Just the light Just the light Turned back toward heaven [End]
