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The Cycle

The Cycle

turntablism / rap / experimental

Round and round. The cycle isn’t the problem the problem is mistaking the loop for progress. Breaking without building. Grinding without gaining. The pattern doesn’t trap you. You volunteer.

Tracks

  1. 01 The Cycle 3:28
    Original poem
    Each moment consumes another
    the cycle persists
    Collision of dead stars
    Tearing through the black
    
    The patterns we're trapped in
    Prisoners of the known
    
    We are the cycle
    we are the grind
    breaking, never building
    desperate to find
    meaning where meaning
    has no meaning
    
    Familiar cracks are spreading
    Threads of
    
    what?
    if?
    When?
    
    The universe dissects
    Itself through us all
    again and again
    
    In every age and empire
    Our atoms burned and roamed
    Now cursed with distant memories
    where do we call home?
    
    Between the cracks
    of what we see
    the void expands
    where all possibilities
    completely refuse to be
    
    And it all
    will collapse
    into absurdity
    
    We're patterns
    Self-consuming
    desperate for a voice
    
    The truth beneath
    fragments of the known
    in spaces barely perceived
    nothing feels like home
    Lyrics
    Each moment consumes another
    The cycle the cycle persists
    Collision of dead stars
    Tearing through the black
    
    The patterns we're trapped in
    Prisoners of the known
    
    [break]
    
    [Chorus]
    We are the cycle
    We are the  we are the grind
    Breaking and
    breaking, never building
    Desperate to find
    (We are the cycle)
    (We are the grind)
    
    [Verse 2]
    Familiar cracks are spreading
    Threads of what-if-when what-if-when
    The universe dissecting
    Itself through 
    through us again
    
    In every age and empire
    Our atoms burned and roamed
    Now cursed with the mystery
    Of nowhere we call home
    
    [Chorus]
    We are the
    we are the cycle
    Grind-grind-grind
    Breaking, never building
    Desperate to
    desperate to find
    
    [Bridge]
    Between the cracks
    
    between the cracks
    Of what we see
    (what we see)
    The void where all-
    where all possibilities
    Refuse to be
    refuse to be
    Collapse into
    absurdity
    
    [pause]
    
    (You and me) (you and me)
    
    [Final Verse]
    Embers of broken suns
    Tearing through the noise
    We're patterns self-consuming
    Desperate for a
    desperate for a voice
    That never comes
    
    The truth beneath our breathing
    Fragments of the known of the known
    In spaces we're perceiving
    Nothing feels like home
    like home
    
    [Outro]
    We are the cycle
    We are the grind
    We are the question
    Never the answer we find
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