[Intro – dusty vinyl crackle, melancholic harmonica, 72 BPM boom bap, dark americana ambience] Call you up in the noctivagant hour Like a glowworm bereft of its power You stood there like a phosphor conflagration I was a lock in need of rotation (need a turn… just a turn…) Somnolent, yet I could not descend Into slumber’s elusive bend Arcana stacked I could not sever Swore I’d hold—but broke forever (you said don’t cry… don’t cry…) [Verse – boom bap drums drop, upright bass, dusty piano] Seems no soul can extricate me now Submerged too deep to disavow This iteration, I’ve gone astray Derelict paths have led my way Runaway engine, ne’er return Wrong vector on a track that burns Ought to arrive at some terrain Yet dwell betwixt loss and gain (neither here… nor there…) [Hook – haunting, detached, NO train imagery, layered vocals] I hover in a liminal haze A wraith unmoored through ashen days No cardinal point to stake my name Just flickers in a dying frame (fade… away… fade… away…) No tether left, no verity Just fractured echoes haunting me I reach for form, it won’t remain Dissolve, reform—repeat the same [Verse 2 – darker tone, more pronounced boom bap swing] Can you reteach this fractured grin? Make it seem worth dwelling in? How did I grow so world-weary? Chronicles dim, sepia and bleary I traverse where none have been Cognizant of unseen sin Here I languish in the downpour Clutching fate like a rusted lore (in the rain… in the rain…) [Bridge – stripped back, reverb-heavy guitar] Binary worlds—so stark, so plain Day and night, loss and gain Yet veracity slips my grasp Like cinders fading into clasp (don’t believe it… don’t believe…) [Rap Part – boom bap heavy, vinyl scratches, raw delivery] Yeah Perambulate the void, tenebrous stride Mind in a labyrinth, nowhere to hide Cicatrix thoughts, yeah scars that speak Every vow I swore turned obsolete Deranged laughter in the monsoon haze Eyes dilated in a broken gaze Disassociated, slightly profane It’s simpler than confrontin’ pain (yeah… feel that…) [Hook – repeat, fuller instrumentation] I hover in a liminal haze A wraith unmoored through ashen days No cardinal point to stake my name Just flickers in a dying frame (fade… away… fade… away…) No tether left, no verity Just fractured echoes haunting me I reach for form, it won’t remain Dissolve, reform—repeat the same [Outro – slow fade, harmonica returns, tape wobble] Runaway leviathan, off the rail Rendin’ the night with a ghostly wail Runaway pulse in my sanguine chain I flee myself—but it stays the same (always the same… always the same…)
