What Remains

Yeah… Close your eyes for a minute Let’s deconstruct it Not with hands but with mind Not to break but to find What remains... [Verse 1] Yo think back little hands scattered on the rug Favorite LEGO set giving every brick a hug Could've been a pirate ship sails full of pride Or a neon gas station with the mini cars outside Farm tractor rolling through a plastic green field Every piece locked tight every angle sealed But you ain’t think about the bricks not once it came alive You saw the form not the pieces that made it survive Funny thing though it was never just that thing It was many little nothings crowned and called king And when it broke? You ain't cry for the shape Cause the soul of that ship lived on in the crates [Verse 2] So let’s reverse it walk that vision back From the form to the fragment the crack to the stack Take the ship apart nah go deeper still Melt the bricks vapor cloud gone the will Dust to molecule snap to string Keep going what’s at the root of the thing? Now shift scenes this ain’t toys we’re unpacking This is you this is me this is the whole world cracking Strip the body down yeah start with the skin Past muscle past bone til the organs thin Cells to chemicals atoms to waves All that we are riding time like a slave [Chorus] What remains when the forms fall away? When the dust don’t settle and the light starts to fray? Is it many is it one are we built from the same? Peel it back layer by layer what remains? [Verse 3] Eyes closed now thought sharp like a blade Cut through illusion through light and shade If you keep on going deconstructing the ride You don’t find ten truths you find one truth inside Not a color not a sound not a name you can say But a presence that hums in an unbroken way It ain’t made of parts don’t crack don’t bend It ain’t got a start and it don’t need an end It ain’t “thing” like a table or a planet or a lung It just is without a tongue it's already sung You can't hold it can't fold it can't sell it or burn But every single form is just that thing’s turn [Bridge] So ask yourself slow Is it more real that there’s one That births all the rest like the moon from the sun? Or do you believe there’s a crowd at the start A million forever things tearing truth apart? Created from nothing? Or from something that breathes? Or has it just always been no arrival no leave? The question ain’t shallow it’s deep like a drum What’s the song beneath the noise we become? [Verse 4] See all the forms all the names all the skin and the glass Are reflections in puddles that tremble and pass We name them and claim them pretend they’re the source But the shape ain’t the river and the map ain’t the course That LEGO ship? Just a moment in bloom A cathedral built brief in a childhood room But the bricks? Yo they never decay They just shift into silence then dance a new way And we we’re the same. Ain’t a soul ever died Just the costume fell off and the core never lied [Chorus] What remains when the forms fall away? When the echoes stop echoing and colors decay? Is it chaos or order or infinite flame? Peel it back layer by layer what remains? Is it many little gods or one face with no name? Are we actors in play or the script in the frame? Is it truth or illusion a spark or a game? When the self disappears what remains? [Outro] Just like the bricks You were never the ship Not the form not the flicker Not the name on your lip You are the base the source the flame The one behind all things... What remains