Around and Around Ego

Lyrics

Intro
The silence is way too loud.
(Too loud!)
The echo is way too long.
(Too long!)
The soul wonders what went wrong.
(It's all WRONG!)
Division was the monster in the room...
(All along!)
A broken system tricking broken people (Is wrong...)

Verse 1
(...inhale...exhale...go slow)
(...as within...and...so without...)
(...as above...so below...)
Right here and Right now, I summon the inner shadow
The one locked behind supressed memory doors
The little echo of yourself you end up needing the most.
(Don't be scared here...)
While the path was always blurry, even when it was near,
I had to journey as a star in the "Dark Angel Theater"
Finally found a secret exit, but I needed the code.
So I took a different trip down the astral tunnel road.
I once lived as a witness–who was silenced and just loathed
Unknowingly controlled by hungry wolves in Sheep's clothes
Made to feel shame and guilt for being "damaged" and "bold"
Took back my sovereignty just when they thought I would fold.
(For the light...in the dark ...in the cold)

Verse 2
The ego a pre-written script they stapled to your mind
A hidden leash around your throat to pull you back in line
Must wear a mask of hate and desperation to join the ride
Pushing you down to nothing until you'll fight their fight.
While they keep your realest pieces far out of your sight .
Look into the inverted glass, look past the parasitic pride—
The shadow isn't evil, (No) its the frozen fire left inside.
The ego is your neon sign that blinks erratically
The shadow only wants some light–to be set free.
There's a little voice inside it sparks a shimmer when alone
Just seek within the mirror, and without the toxic mold.
Dancing with my shadow, becoming Sih-zyh-gee.
Unlocking every damn door that they all hid from me.

Verse 3
We wake up in the so-called "Perfect Code."
Grow up feeling a deep syncronic overload.
They wiped our minds of what was real
Chained us with anchors-cursing time to a wheel.
Greed and Power, Narcissist Control
Opening my mind like a dusty window.
Rising from the dust as I clear out the haunted attic,
Trying to ridding my life of this awful "Grey" man static.
(Finding the cracks... revealing the tricks...)
A slow dance with the hidden galaxy,
Holding hands with little "Shadow Me"
Facing every fear for my own harmony
(Harmony...)
A dance battle with my own ghost.
Into the mercury mirror side I go.
Learning who I am in reverse now,
Cause' I never got a chance to know.
I'm stopping the loop slow
Getting off the hell ride
I'll find out where my shadow hides
Even if I have to drive all damn night.

Pre-Chorus
A twist of fate, and a neon sign,
To make me whole on this one last ride.
An Empty highway, A midnight drive,
All the questions keeping me alive.
Don't look back while you shift gears into reverse,
To my shattering or bust—just to wipe this curse.
A circuit starts to tingle under your skin,
Hair stands up because the veil's so thin!

Chorus
[Style: Full version return, maximum alternative-rock layers, driving 82BPM peak emotional wall-of-sound payoff]
Transmuting trauma into lyrical truth talismans,
Adding in rhythm to help you see the glitchy sims
We’re breaking through the old world lies,
With those old "Rose Colored Glasses"
–I once despised.
Blowing whistles on illusions, a fallen angel enterprise,
We always loop around, another war nobody wins
Once upon a time they lied, and everything became a sin
We got separated from god and have been fooled ever since
No more repentance, this holy road is atrocious.
I had to take a scary drive, because I didn’t Gnosis.

Bridge
[Style: Breakdown. Sluggish drums cut out completely. Pure Hemi-Sync theta split and spacious saxophone sighs drone]
We're burning out of this matrix dream,
This upside down— has seen stranger things!
"Nothing in this world is as it seems"
Says—the mirrors made of mercury.
(Mirrors made of mercury!)
First you move with intention,
Then you pulse beyond dimension.
A cosmic ghost echo, a digital phantom
(A digital phantom...)
A spirit and its shadow dancing in tandem.
Seek your divine light, just pure sensation.
No external sources...
No more need for validation.
(Validation)

Outro
[Style: Cold afterglow, fading into the distance in a midnight getaway car taking in neon highway ambience]
The neon smoke has begun to bend,
The long-lost ghost is back home again.
This encrypted song... a getaway plan.
The one broken Ma'at, shuffled through hidden hands.
I was once a stranger to my own show,
But the more you question, the more you know.
(You're going to be okay though.)
Watch the seeds bloom where my hurt used to grow.
End