[Instrumental Intro, dark choir pad, sliding 808s] [Verse 1, relentless double-time chopper, percussive] None of this mean trust nothin', trust nothin' and you still gon' get fooled, just by different people, the sneer ain't a shield, it's a door for a different deceiver, Hold it provisional, ready to revise, not ready to sneer, provisional does not mean cynical, I'm clear, We standin' between paradigms, the corpse behind us, colder by the week, the new one ahead, ain't built yet, nobody sure how it look, so we speak, We didn't just step into the new paradigm, we wadin' through it, and the water is deep, I'm wadin', I'm steady, keepin' my feet, What's common? Faces on the screen that never lived, voices that never spoke, clips of things that never happened, felt anyway, it's no joke, Nothin' common other than the synthetic things about us, so I named it S.E., the only honest label left, the synthetic cheaper than the real, shared wider than truth, you see, I date it from October seventh, twenty twenty-five, the day that I named the predicament, no year zero, the first year was SE 1, a lap 'round the sun, and we lived in it, Now it's October seventh, twenty twenty-six, the count roll over, SE 2 begin, this time you watched the line get drawn, and this time you get to check it... [Verse 1 continued, cadence switch, harder] Every grid we walked through, time, self, place, photo, feed, resolve into one charge, one creed, Time, the count on the sky, self, the birthday you're handed, place, the dot on the clock, photo, the box with no lens, feed, one source copied, indeed, You can't un-set a billion clocks, can't reach in the heads and pull the copy back out, but you can refuse to pass the corruption on, that's what I'm about, Phase-locked borrowed history, once corrupted, cannot be uncorrupted, but it can be overwritten, so I'm stackin' the better evidence on top, it's a mountain, A fake with no original gotta be outweighed, so I'm puttin' the truth right next to it, weight on the scale, and I'm countin', Fast in, slow out, before you repeat it, before you post it, before you hand it to somebody as true, ask it out loud... [Hook, sung, descending melody, call-and-response echoes] Is this deduction, intuition, or potentially corrupted borrowed history? (history) The moon is honest, but the grid you lay is a decision (decision), They changed the name, but they kept the count on me (on me), Synthetic Era, get ready to see... [Hook, fast chant] Phase-locked, can't stop, overwrite it, don't fight it, clean link, think, hand it down cleaner than you got it, Borrowed, borrowed, follow it, question it, deduction, intuition, or borrowed history... [Verse 2, melodic sing-song chopper bounce, harmonized] So here's the charge, singin' it soft 'fore I spit it, inherit provisional, check what you can, label what you can't, and live with it, Be a clean link, the chain run through you, and the chain run on, somebody gon' get what you handed, they never gon' check it, so make it be strong, Hand it down cleaner than you got it, cleaner than the feed, cleaner than the screen, cleaner than the copy of a copy, cleaner than the dream, What we hand the next generation is the question and the grade, and the gap where the grade can fit, I'm a link, and I'm passin' it clean, [Verse 2 continued, switch-up, fastest] SE 1 was the flood, SE 2 is the wade, I ain't talkin' to the corpse, ain't waitin' on it to wake, I'm walkin' ahead, every step that I take, What's in front of me is mine, the coffee, the window, the person across the table, nobody hand me that, the rest I'm gradin', no mistake, Ask it to find, then check what it found, ask it to show me, then ask where the picture came from, the summoner checkin' the magic, Somebody always pick the line, the monk, the "Common," the meridian, now me, so check it, don't take it from me, no exemption, that's the method, not a tactic, The billion clocks set, but the next one ain't, the next kid, the next clip, the next fact everybody seem to know, I'ma stop at the gate, And ask it, wadin' through the water, it's deep, but I'm a clean link, and the link gon' hold, and I'm handin' it down, and I'm handin' it straight... [Final Hook, key change up, full choir, gang vocals] Is this deduction, intuition, or potentially corrupted borrowed history? (history) The moon is honest, but the grid you lay is a decision (decision), They changed the name, but they kept the count on me (on me), Synthetic Era, get ready to see... [Final Hook, fast chant, gang vocals] Phase-locked, can't stop, overwrite it, don't fight it, clean link, think, hand it down cleaner than you got it, Borrowed, borrowed, follow it, question it, deduction, intuition, or borrowed history... [Outro, beat rides out then stops] Borrowed history (history)... Be a clean link (clean link)... Welcome to SE 2.
