Repeat After My Decision
[Intro – whispered female voice, oud and distant darbuka] One goal. Two steps. Three checks. Four more reasons to forget. Tick, tick, tick... Are we there yet? [Verse 1 – playful shaabi groove, syncopated Rhodes] I drew a line across the floor You built a hundred little doors Every door needs one more key Every key needs certainty Verify the verification Celebrate the calculation All the numbers looking fine But we're running out of time [Pre-Chorus – 7/8 percussion, rising organ] Tell me why Tell me how Is this still the mission now? Every answer makes a chain Every chain begins again [Chorus – explosive shaabi funk, brass response] Repeat after my decision! Not another repetition! You can make a perfect plan For a thing nobody needs Repeat after my decision! Check the purpose, not permission! If the answer changes nothing Why repeat it endlessly? Round and round Round and round Very clever Going nowhere now! [Instrumental Break – mizmar and saxophone trading solos] [7/8 darbuka solo] [Rhodes quartal chords, fretless bass counterpoint] [Sudden 4/4 shaabi groove] [Verse 2 – dry spoken jazz, playful female vocals] A manager of managers A checker of the checks A beautiful report about The reports we haven't read A system for the system A rule to guard the rule Everybody did it right And nobody asked what for [Pre-Chorus – shifting 9/8, fragmented vocal echoes] One more test One more gate One more reason we should wait If I take the whole thing out Does the outcome change at all? [Chorus – layered percussion and vocal call-response] Repeat after my decision! Not another repetition! You can make a perfect plan For a thing nobody needs Repeat after my decision! Check the purpose, not permission! If the answer changes nothing Why repeat it endlessly? [Bridge – psychedelic Arabic jazz, tempo illusion] Correct... Correct... Correct... Every little piece is right Every little piece is right But the picture But the picture But the picture... Is it right? [Free jazz saxophone burst] [Sudden full-band silence] [Spoken – intimate, completely dry] What happens if we simply don't do it? [Final Chorus – heavy baladi groove, ecstatic brass] Repeat after my decision! Break the loop of good intentions! Knowing how is not enough When you never question why Repeat after my decision! No more endless optimization! If the work has lost its meaning Let the perfect process die [Outro – instruments dropping out one by one] One goal. One choice. No more noise. [Soft oud harmonic] Decision made. [Silence]
