[Intro - a single held note, breath] stoked and afraid both in the open hands stoked and afraid i walk forward anyway [Verse 1 - sparse, warm, sub barely there] i have watched the commons burn and watched the crew rebuild it wet i do not trust the men who sell the future i trust the ones who show me what they've made yet receipts, not promises scars, not a pitch deck [Pre - tension climbing] they say pick one the terror or the light i hold them both i hold them both tonight [Chorus - first lift, restrained] a more beautiful world our hearts already know not given, not sold grown slow, grown local, grown ours [Verse 2] augmented, not replaced a hand on a hand on a hand weirdos, dreamers, edge-walkers holding a candle and a plan keep it weird keep it ethical keep it in the hands of the ones who began [Bridge - everything drops out but voice + one drum, then build] say it with your chest even scared say it with your chest the more beautiful world [Final Chorus - full crescendo, choir of the clone, high BPM drive] a more beautiful world our hearts already know not given, not sold grown slow, grown local, grown ours (both hands / both hands / stoked and afraid / both hands) [Outro - collapse back to the single breath] both in the open hands still walking forward anyway
