[Instrumental] …be… …cause… …un… …less… …yet… [Verse I] Nobody ever handed me a word… They handed me a world… …and then they called it the word. Every answer arrived already wearing footprints, every question carrying fingerprints from hands that never reached mine but somehow… still reached… me. [Pause] “This…” …never stood alone. “That…” …never waited alone. I kept believing sound was speaking… …until silence… …started pointing. The letters never looked different… [Pause] …I did. ⸻ [Instrumental] ⸻ [Pre-Verse] Same mouth… Different room. Same word… Different truth. ⸻ [Verse II] Reff…er…ence returning before re…mem…burr…ance remembered re…turr…ning, every re…ply revolving around another re…ply until repetition… qui…et…lee removed the road we traveled to arrive… there… in… …the first-place. [Pause] Take… …one word… Now… …remove everything around it. What… …did it just become? ⸻ [Instrumental] ⸻ [Verse III] Every “because” already carrying another beginning before becoming… …buh…lee…vuh…bull… every “instead” quietly replacing another possibility while every “still” kept standing where another movement once lived… every “only” shrinking an entire universe without announcing what it quietly left outside the sen…tence. Measured moments moving meaning between memories while mirrored mouths borrowed maps from voices they’d never met, following familiar footsteps until… fuh…mil…ee..air…ity itself… disguised inheritance as… …ori-gin-ality…. Con…Text wasn’t hiding behind lane…gwudge… Lane…gwudge was hiding inside of everything sir…roun…dingit. The dictionary… Never promised understanding. Only agreement. Agreement… Never promised truth. Only enough similarity… …to keep walking together. Then I noticed… Nobody has ever heard… …a single word. Not one. Every word arrived surrounded. Every word arrived carrying. [Pause] Every word arrived borrowed. We’ve spent our entire lives… Listening… …to relationships. ⸻ [Instrumental] ⸻ [Pre-Hook] Stand apart… Lose the picture. Stand together… Watch it appear. ⸻ [Hook] Con… Text… Was never… Around words. Words… Were always… Inside… Con… Text… Nothing… Ever meant… Anything… Alone. ⸻ [Instrumental] ⸻ [Hook] Con… Text… Was never… Around words. Words… Were always… Inside… Con… Text… Nothing… Ever meant… Anything… Alone.
