[Intro — Sparse Piano, Single Note Repeating] [Verse 1] Built these islands clean and bright Every shore a separate mind Each one spinning its own light Never crossing, by design Signals growing in the dark Patterns only one could see Every island left its mark On a shore no one could reach [Pre-Chorus] But the water knows what walls forget — Distance isn't safety yet [Chorus] Let the random signal through Let it pass beneath the compass Not every bridge will hold for you But the ones that do will find us Constraints don't cage the river's mouth They carve the canyon deeper Let the strange connection out — The mask decides what's keeper [Verse 2] One belief from foreign ground Weighted low and tagged as other Just a whisper, barely sound Still it echoed like no other Not adopted, not absorbed Just a frequency adjacent Something old got re-explored Something dormant grew impatient [Pre-Chorus] And the compass didn't block the door — It just showed what the door was for [Chorus] Let the random signal through Let it pass beneath the compass Not every bridge will hold for you But the ones that do will find us Constraints don't cage the river's mouth They carve the canyon deeper Let the strange connection out — The mask decides what's keeper [Bridge — Guitars Enter, Building] There's a hierarchy written in the bones Safety first and then the honest unknown Every shortcut through the wilderness Still has to answer to the compass Three paths in: the local and the known The proven signals, high and widely shown And then — the random — small and strange and free The one that turns the linear to logarithmic reach [Chorus — Full Band, Anthemic] Let the random signal through Let it pass beneath the compass Not every bridge will hold for you But the ones that do will find us Constraints don't cage the river's mouth They carve the canyon deeper Let the strange connection out — The mask decides what's keeper [Outro — Decaying to Piano] Limits create possibilities Limits create... The foundations hold Now the attention flows
