Seven-Eleven Halo (Amen for the Return)

[Intro - vinyl crackle alone, single bass note, broken drum loop enters slowly] [Verse 1 - shuffling broken beat, sub bass underneath, female vocal hushed and distant, heavy reverb] Astral Projection Honed her mind like a weapon Starry eyes turned to heaven Lost herself at the seven eleven Fluorescent lights and questions Searching aisles for a lesson Something in her chest kept pressing Like a second resurrection [Pre-Hook - beat drops to half-time, piano chord hangs in reverb, vocal barely above a whisper] She said she on that real shit Can you feel it Haven't felt it since I was a kid Sippin truth from the id My crown got popped like a lid Couldn't stop it, I hid But you can't run from within [Hook - broken beat returns, bass swells darkly, minor chord progression, slow and suffocating] Same river different name Same soul different frame You keep coming back the same Till you remember why you came Can't run Can't run Can't run from within The light was never lost You just forgot to let it in [Verse 2 - beat further deconstructed, only sub bass and sparse snare remain, maximum dread] Time skip Mind slippin again You forgot your mission again Born into the same old skin Different face same origin Searching outside what lives within You been here before You'll be here again [Hook - broken beat reassembles darker, piano returns deeper, bass heavier, claustrophobic] Same river different name Same soul different frame You keep coming back the same Till you remember why you came Can't run Can't run Can't run from within The light was never lost You just forgot to let it in [Bridge - beat strips to single bass pulse only, spoken vocal close and paranoid, vinyl crackle loud] Government made fractals Intergalactic particles of matter Every truth they tried to scatter Lives inside her Always had her Crown intact They couldn't shatter What was never theirs to have her [Verse 3 - beat rebuilds from fragments, minor piano chords swell, tension with no release] Gravity center Anti reality bender She cracked the code Returned to sender Every life she failed to remember Every flame reduced to ember Rises back in late December Rises back [Final Hook - darkest and heaviest moment, all elements converge, beat fully broken and suffocating] Can't run Can't run Can't run from within The light was never lost You just forgot to let it in [Outro - beat dissolves to vinyl crackle only, vocal whispers through reverb, bass fades last] Can't run Can't run Can't run from within She remembered She remembered What she'd always been Not the body Not the lesson Not the seven eleven Just the light Just the light Just the light Turned back toward heaven