Album: Supernova
By – Masked Matrix
Release Date: 9/9/2026
Dedicated to my Love, my best friend, my light in the darkness, my Mom. I owe you everything! Happy Birthday Mama!!!
- Ghost Lights
- Hero’s Journey
- Angels Song (Remastered)
- Unified Anthem
- Badge on Crooke
- Bee-Wolf
- The Light is in Me
- Ionized
- Friend or Enemy
- Stardust Fields
- No Good Deed Indeed
- Take the Time
- How Much Was Dat
- Alchemical Gold
- Light of Venus
- Sleeping on the Sidewalk
- Copper and Iron
- I Understand
- Robo-Pig
- Bad Liars
- Diamond Matrix
- Mother’s Love
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1. Ghost Lights
[Verse 1]
Out past the fence line
By the mud and reeds
Where the water goes black
And the moon can’t breathe
I seen them drift low
Like a secret in smoke
By the broken road bend
Where the old pine groans
They don’t move like fire
They don’t move like cars
They bend the dark air
Then they vanish hard
Ask the night watchmen
Ask the ones who know
Ghost Lights on the marsh
Got a hungry glow
[Pre-Chorus]
If you hear that hum
Better lock that gate
If you see them come
It’s already late
[Chorus]
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
Pulling at the veil
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
Where the lost ones wail
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
All the signs align
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
Mmm, they cross that line
[Verse 2]
They flash by the chapel
Then the river bed
Circle on the crossroads
Spin above the dead
They sit with the tarot
They crawl in the smoke
They crack every omen
Every charm, every joke
Moonlight in the window
Cold on your skin
You can pray out loud
Still they slip right in
Seen them in the silence
Seen them in the storm
Seen them in the field when
The whole sky warms
[Pre-Chorus]
If you hear that hum
Better shut your pride
If you see them turn
Don’t step inside
[Chorus]
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
Pulling at the veil
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
Where the lost ones wail
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
All the signs align
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
Mmm, they cross that line
[Bridge]
Tell me who you blame
When the old map burns
Tell me what you save
When the prayerbook turns
Some say warning
Some say guide
Some say souls on patrol
With the dead inside
[Chorus]
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
Pulling at the veil
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
Where the lost ones wail
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
All the signs align
Ghost Lights, Ghost Lights
Mmm, they cross that line
2. Hero’s Journey
[Verse 1]
You wake up broke, but you still move
Fool in your pocket, chasing one true groove
Magician hands, make pain turn gold
Every scar got a trick, every doubt get sold
High Priestess eyes, you read that room
Secrets in the silence, pressure in the bloom
Then the Empress talk soft, make roots grow deep
But the Tower come fast when you fake that sleep
[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, it hits when you lie
When the mask won’t stay
Yeah, you fall, then you rise
That the price you pay
[Chorus]
Hero’s journey, that your name
Hero’s journey, through the flame
From the Fool to the crown
You get hit, but you don’t bow
Hero’s journey, that your ride
Every card got your life inside
(hero’s journey)
(hero’s journey)
[Verse 2]
Chariot locked, you steer through stress
Two black horses, still you want progress
Strength in the jaw, when the fear get loud
You tame that beast, you don’t need a crowd
Hermit light, when the world go dim
One small lamp and the fight within
Wheel keep spinning, luck don’t stay
One day up, next day cut the other way
Justice watch close with a blade and scale
What you built in the dark, it will tell
[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, it hits when you lie
When the mask won’t stay
Yeah, you fall, then you rise
That the price you pay
[Chorus]
Hero’s journey, that your name
Hero’s journey, through the flame
From the Fool to the crown
You get hit, but you don’t bow
Hero’s journey, that your ride
Every card got your life inside
(hero’s journey)
(hero’s journey)
[Bridge]
Hanged Man sees it from the other side
Death don’t mean gone, it mean changed inside
Temperance mix the wounds with grace
Star in the grit, you find your place
Moon got teeth when the night get long
Sun break through and the weak get strong
Judgment calls, and the horns don’t lie
World in your hands when you choose that climb
[Chorus]
Hero’s journey, that your name
Hero’s journey, through the flame
From the Fool to the crown
You get hit, but you don’t bow
Hero’s journey, that your ride
Every card got your life inside
(hero’s journey)
(hero’s journey)
3. Angels Song (Remastered)
[Intro]
Male: From every tongue, one breath in the room
Female: Different names, same sky, make space, make room
[Verse 1]
Male: I came with a question, not a crown on my head
Why the river keeps moving when the old kings are dead
Why a child in one valley sings a truth in a key
That can travel through a border and still sound free
We inherited maps, but the pulse is unmapped
Every scholar, every farmer, every soul in the gap
Can argue the language, the ritual, the frame
Still gratitude rises when we honor the flame
Female: I’ve seen hands build homes from a handful of clay
Seen strangers split bread at the end of the day
No passport can measure the worth of a life
No doctrine should sharpen a neighbor to knife
I bring my own story, you bring yours to the floor
Not to erase what we carry, but to open the door
If Source is the ocean, our names are the streams
Many routes to the mercy that outlasts our schemes
[Pre-Chorus]
Male: Say it plain, say it proud, let the old walls bend
Female: Praise through the difference, let the circle extend
Both: We don’t need one word to be one human sound
When the heart gives thanks, common ground is found
[Chorus]
Both: This is the Angels Song, rising from the dust
Different names for the Source, one promise we trust
Hands up for the breath, for the bread, for the dawn
Praise in a thousand tongues, still the light carries on
Angels Song, let the whole world sing
Honor every path that gives life meaning
No throne, no border, no fear too strong
Many voices, one gratitude: Angels Song
[Verse 2]
Female: I’m not selling a shortcut, I’m defending the climb
The mind needs a question and the spirit needs time
Read the stars, read the history, read what we’ve done
Then ask who keeps giving when the giving is gone
Creator, Source, Maker, the names rearrange
But wonder stays steady while the symbols can change
Let the poet bring metaphor, let the physicist test
Let the doubter speak honestly, then offer their best
Male: No forced agreement, no borrowed belief
Unity isn’t silence, it’s disciplined relief
We can challenge the claim without crushing the face
Put compassion in the method, put humility in place
From the drum in the village to the chant in the hall
Awe makes a bridge where suspicion builds a wall
If the gift is existence, then gratitude’s due
I can praise what I know and respect what is true to you
[Pre-Chorus]
Female: Say it plain, say it proud, let the old walls bend
Male: Praise through the difference, let the circle extend
Both: We don’t need one word to be one human sound
When the heart gives thanks, common ground is found
[Chorus]
Both: This is the Angels Song, rising from the dust
Different names for the Source, one promise we trust
Hands up for the breath, for the bread, for the dawn
Praise in a thousand tongues, still the light carries on
Angels Song, let the whole world sing
Honor every path that gives life meaning
No throne, no border, no fear too strong
Many voices, one gratitude: Angels Song
[Bridge]
Female: If your prayer has a different rhythm, let it breathe
Male: If your wisdom wears a different color, let it lead
Female: We can keep our questions
Male: We can keep our names
Both: And still lift a thank-you through the thunder and the rain
[Final Verse]
Male: This is bigger than a slogan printed clean on a page
It’s a practice under pressure, a response to the age
When the feed turns bitter, choose a generous lens
When the room gets divided, make a stranger a friend
Female: Bring the elders and the children, bring the skeptic and the saint
Bring the lessons from the failures, don’t pretend that we ain’t
Every culture is a window, every person a proof
That the Source gave us difference and demanded the truth
[Final Chorus]
Both: This is the Angels Song, rising from the dust
Different names for the Source, one promise we trust
Hands up for the breath, for the bread, for the dawn
Praise in a thousand tongues, still the light carries on
Angels Song, let the whole world sing
Honor every path that gives life meaning
No throne, no border, no fear too strong
Many voices, one gratitude: Angels Song
[Outro]
Male: One breath
Female: Many names
Both: One gratitude, carried through the ages
4. Unified Anthem
[Verse 1]
Look at us now
Hands off the wall
Different faces
Still we stand tall
Old lines fading
Walls hit the floor
We been divided
Now we want more
From every block
From every lane
Same red blood
Same hunger, same pain
See the worth
In the next one’s eyes
No more cages
No more disguise
[Pre-Chorus]
Feel that shift
Right in the chest
One world rising
We’re at our best
No more small
No more alone
We build it up
Bone by bone
[Chorus]
Unified anthem
Say it out loud (unified anthem)
Unified anthem
One voice, one crowd (one voice, one crowd)
See the beauty
We were made to find
Unified anthem
Future on the rise
[Verse 2]
Now the kids grow
With open hands
Learning love
Across the lands
Not here to erase
What makes us real
We learn each color
We learn to feel
Every border
Gets less hard
Every stranger
Turns to a spark
What we could be
If we move as one
Whole world shining
Under the sun
[Pre-Chorus]
Feel that shift
Right in the chest
One world rising
We’re at our best
No more small
No more alone
We build it up
Bone by bone
[Chorus]
Unified anthem
Say it out loud (unified anthem)
Unified anthem
One voice, one crowd (one voice, one crowd)
See the beauty
We were made to find
Unified anthem
Future on the rise
[Bridge]
If we can see
What’s always been
A million mirrors
One human skin
Then every wound
Can start to heal
And every dream
Turns real, turns real
[Chorus]
Unified anthem
Say it out loud (unified anthem)
Unified anthem
One voice, one crowd (one voice, one crowd)
See the beauty
We were made to find
Unified anthem
Future on the rise
5. Badge on Crooke
[Intro]
Badge on crooked, coffee on the dash
Big tough talk, but the paperwork’s trash
[Verse 1]
This little piggy wore a badge to the market
Took the last donut, then he tried to remark it
Said, “Respect my authority,” waving that card
But his parking ticket pile got taller than the squad
He shakes down the corner for a soda and chips
Writes a ticket to a pigeon for suspicious trips
Calls himself clean with a siren-blue grin
While the evidence locker’s missing again
[Pre-Chorus]
Who’s got the cuffs? Who’s got the keys?
Who’s got a pocket full of mystery fees?
[Chorus]
This little piggy went ha-ha-ha
This little piggy took the whole bazaar
This little piggy said, “I run this town”
Then tripped on his ego and fell face-down
Real criminals in a uniform parade
Gang-bang swagger with a government grade
This little piggy, tell me who you are
The badge don’t make you righteous, it just makes you hard to charge
[Verse 2]
He rolls up loud like a bargain-bin king
Three flashing lights for a missing bling
Interrogates a mailbox, threatens a tree
Then blames the whole block for his missing receipt
His partner says, “Careful, the camera is near”
He suddenly discovers professional fear
They practice that scowl in the cruiser mirror
But the punchline gets sharper whenever they hear it
[Pre-Chorus]
Who’s got the cuffs? Who’s got the keys?
Who’s got a pocket full of mystery fees?
[Chorus]
This little piggy went ha-ha-ha
This little piggy took the whole bazaar
This little piggy said, “I run this town”
Then tripped on his ego and fell face-down
Real criminals in a uniform parade
Gang-bang swagger with a government grade
This little piggy, tell me who you are
The badge don’t make you righteous, it just makes you hard to charge
[Bridge]
Not every cop, no, the joke has a target
The ones who turn power into personal profit
The ones who break rules, then threaten the witness
And call their own misconduct “standard business”
[Verse 3]
He booked a kid for breathing too loud in the hall
Then lost the report and blamed it on the wall
Says, “I serve the people,” with a grin full of cheese
While he serves his own appetite and confiscated keys
Courtroom strut, little boots, big bluff
Every “yes, sir” sounds like “I’ve had enough”
When the truth pulls up, he pretends not to know
Like a pig at a spelling bee: “Oink” is all he can show
[Final Chorus]
This little piggy went ha-ha-ha
This little piggy took the whole bazaar
This little piggy said, “I run this town”
Then tripped on his ego and fell face-down
Real criminals in a uniform parade
Gang-bang swagger with a government grade
This little piggy, tell me who you are
The badge don’t make you righteous, it just makes you hard to charge
[Outro]
One went to the market, one went to the mall
One took the donuts, one took it all
And when the sirens fade from the boulevard
The loudest gang in town is still arguing with the card
6. Bee-Wolf
[Intro]
Hear the iron-age thunder, where the cold sea heaves
A name walks in from the storm with a vow in his teeth
Not for gold, not for praise, not to kneel at the feast
A man measures his soul by the shape of the beast
[Verse 1]
In the hall of the Danes, where the mead-cups ring
Grendel came like a grievance with a kingdom’s sting
Night after night, twelve winters of terror and dread
Leaving torn-out silence where the warriors bled
Then Beowulf crossed waves with a crew and a claim
A stranger from the Geats carrying more than a name
He said, “No blade in my hand; let the darkness decide”
And the hall held its breath when the hero stepped inside
He read the room like a scholar reads a buried decree
Every boast has a cost, every crown has a fee
When the monster broke through, iron hinges gave way
Beowulf met him barehanded and made night obey
Bone locked to bone, rage answered rage
A wrestling match written across history’s page
The arm tore free, and Grendel fled through the fen
But a wound is a message: the war isn’t at its end
[Hook]
Bee-Wolf, rise where the black tide rolls
Steel in the will, old fire in the soul
One man, one vow, when the grave calls close
Face the beast, face the age, face what nobody knows
Bee-Wolf, no throne can outlast the years
No song is born without blood and tears
If the world wants a monster, let the answer be known
A hero is the hand that refuses the throne
[Verse 2]
Then the mother came hunting through the drowned marshland
A grief with a face and a blade in her hand
She dragged one of the king’s best down under the mere
Where the water kept secrets too ancient to hear
Beowulf dove past roots where the daylight withdrew
To a chamber of weapons no living eye knew
A giant-forged edge flashed bright in the gloom
And he cut through the vengeance that had sealed that tomb
He returned with the proof, but the court changed its tune
For victory’s brief when the next doom looms
Hrothgar gave wisdom: fame is a loan, not a crown
The proud rise quickly, then the years cut them down
So Beowulf carried that warning through kingdoms and time
Let the lesson sit heavy beneath every rhyme
A young arm wins battles; a wise heart counts the cost
The loudest boast fades when the undefeated is lost
[Hook]
Bee-Wolf, rise where the black tide rolls
Steel in the will, old fire in the soul
One man, one vow, when the grave calls close
Face the beast, face the age, face what nobody knows
Bee-Wolf, no throne can outlast the years
No song is born without blood and tears
If the world wants a monster, let the answer be known
A hero is the hand that refuses the throne
[Verse 3]
Fifty years passed; the young storm hardened to stone
A king with a people, a burden, a bone
Then a thief touched a cup in a dragon’s red keep
And woke up the hunger that had guarded its sleep
Gold under earth, but the fire climbed high
Smoke folded kingdoms beneath a burning sky
The old king knew youth would not answer the call
So he walked toward the wyrm with his back to the wall
He brought eleven warriors, one carried the shame
The rest watched the earth learn the weight of a name
The dragon breathed ruin; the shield split and failed
Yet Beowulf advanced when the living all bailed
His sword broke clean, but his courage held fast
He drove the blade deep as if arguing with fate’s past
Then the loyal one came, with a courage untold
And together they pierced through the furnace of gold
The worm fell dead, but the king took the bite
Victory paid in blood at the edge of the night
He looked at the treasure, then looked at the sky
And knew every conqueror is practicing goodbye
A mound by the sea, twelve riders in line
Their voices made thunder for a life at decline
They praised what he gave, not the gold he had won
For a hero is judged by the lives he outran
[Bridge]
What is strength when the years make a blade from the bone?
What is glory when the singer is dust and alone?
What remains when the monster, the king, and the feast
Are all swallowed down by the mouth of the beast?
Not the crown. Not the hoard. Not the length of the reign.
The hand that stood firm in the teeth of the pain.
The word kept alive when the speaker is gone.
The courage that travels from one age to dawn.
[Final Hook]
Bee-Wolf, rise where the black tide rolls
Steel in the will, old fire in the soul
One man, one vow, when the grave calls close
Face the beast, face the age, face what nobody knows
Bee-Wolf, let the sea carry word
That a mortal stood tall when the darkness was stirred
If the world wants a monster, let the answer be known
A hero is the hand that refuses the throne
[Outro]
So remember the hall, and the hand, and the flame
Remember the man who outlived his own name
The poem still bites when the centuries sleep
Bee-Wolf walks on where the black waters keep
7. The Light is in Me
[Verse 1]
I used to chase the glow
On every face I saw
Borrowed every spark
Still felt myself fall short
Looked in the glass too long
Asked it for a sign
Then I saw my own eyes
Like they were mine this time
[Pre-Chorus]
All that I was seeking
Was breathing in my chest
No ceiling in the darkness
When I finally confessed
[Chorus]
The light is in me
The light is in me
I was never empty
I was just unseen
The light is in me
The light is in me
God looked in the mirror
And it looked like me
[Verse 2]
I wore my doubts like chains
Cold on my skin
But every break I found
Had to start within
No need to beg the sun
To stay above my head
I learned to make my way
By the words I said
[Pre-Chorus]
All that I was chasing
Had been here all along
A quiet kind of power
A steady, hidden song
[Chorus]
The light is in me
The light is in me
I was never empty
I was just unseen
The light is in me
The light is in me
God looked in the mirror
And it looked like me
[Bridge]
I don’t need permission
To stand where I stand
What I thought was out there
Was already in my hands
[Final Chorus]
The light is in me
The light is in me
I was never empty
I was just unseen
The light is in me
The light is in me
God looked in the mirror
And it looked like me
8. Ionized
[Intro]
Pressure on the chest, pressure on the name
They keep turning up the heat like I asked for the flame
[Verse 1]
Clock-in, rent due, teeth clenched, eyes red
Everybody wants a piece before I lift my head
They measure my worth by a number on a screen
Then wonder why the quiet kid turned volatile and mean
I learned from the shove, made a ladder from the weight
Every closed door got a hinge I can break
No handout, no pause, no room for a plea
If the world wants a monster, it can deal with me
I keep a blueprint folded under my sleeve
While they count every loss like it’s proof I should leave
But the spark got a pulse and the pulse got a plan
I’m not chasing their ceiling—I’m expanding the span
[Pre-Chorus]
You pushed, I adapted
You laughed, I got faster
The furnace is open
Now watch what comes after
[Chorus]
I’m ionized, charged up, nowhere left to hide
All that pressure turned electric on the inside
When I step into the heat, every limit gets denied
Take my game to the next level—watch me go supernova, ionized
[Verse 2]
They want safe little steps, want a tame little climb
Want a polished explanation for the terror in my mind
I gave them every warning, they mistook it for a threat
Now I’m cashing every doubt like a high-interest debt
New gear, new lane, new rules for the race
I can see the whole board when they stare at my face
Every setback got refined, every scar got a use
I turned panic into fuel and the fuel into a fuse
No sleep for the vision, no brakes for the drive
I’m building something bigger than the life they prescribed
If success is a language, I’m fluent under fire
If the bar moves upward, I’m raising it higher
[Pre-Chorus]
You pushed, I adapted
You laughed, I got faster
The furnace is open
Now watch what comes after
[Chorus]
I’m ionized, charged up, nowhere left to hide
All that pressure turned electric on the inside
When I step into the heat, every limit gets denied
Take my game to the next level—watch me go supernova, ionized
[Bridge]
This is not a breakdown
This is a launch sequence
Every weight they gave me
Made the frame increase
Ten, nine, eight—I can feel the core ignite
Three, two, one—now the dark becomes the light
[Final Chorus]
I’m ionized, charged up, nowhere left to hide
All that pressure turned electric on the inside
When I step into the heat, every limit gets denied
Take my game to the next level—watch me go supernova, ionized
Ionized, no ceiling, no surrender in my stride
They compressed the coal and got a diamond amplified
If they push another inch, I’ll eclipse the whole skyline
Take my game to the next level—supernova, ionized
[Outro]
Pressure made a weapon
Doubt became the guide
They pushed me past the limit
Now I’m burning from inside
9. Friend or Enemy
[Intro]
[Beat: Hard-hitting 808 bass, crisp snare, dark melodic synth loop]
[Male Vocal – Spoken]
Look, I’m not saying you’re wrong.
[Female Vocal – Spoken]
Good, because I’m not.
[Male Vocal – Spoken]
I’m just saying your methodology is entirely irrational.
[Female Vocal – Spoken]
Oh, here we go with the vocabulary.
[Verse 1 – Male Vocal]
Let us conduct a quick empirical review
Of the dishwasher stack that was loaded by you
It is a study in chaos, a structural threat
Placing a skillet upside down on a salad spinner set
I cite article three of the household decree
Heavier items go bottom level, naturally
You put a mug on a plate, that’s an ergonomic crime
We are losing five percentage points of efficiency every time!
[Verse 1 – Female Vocal]
Oh, your quantitative analysis is missing the plot
I am optimizing throughput with the counter space we got!
You spend twenty-two minutes arranging every fork by tine
While the laundry folds itself in some imaginary timeline
You talk a big game about logistics and grace
But you left a single paper towel sitting right near the sink space!
Not thrown away! Not fully used! Just chilling on the ledge!
That is psychological warfare driving me to the edge!
[Chorus – Duet: Male Vocal / Female Vocal]
[Male Vocal]
Are you a strategic ally or a tactical adversary?
[Female Vocal]
I’m the balance to your neurosis, entirely necessary!
[Male Vocal]
We are a high-functioning unit!
[Female Vocal]
We’re an absolute mess!
[Both]
Navigating life together under criminal stress!
Friend or enemy? The verdict is out
Arguing the principles of what we’re about!
[Verse 2 – Male Vocal]
Item number two on the joint session agenda:
The temperature setting on the thermostat, Brenda—
[Female Vocal]
My name isn’t Brenda!
[Male Vocal]
It’s a figure of speech!
Seventy-two degrees is well within comfort reach!
You set it to sixty-four, we are living in a cave
I am wearing two parkas inside the home that we saved!
[Verse 2 – Female Vocal]
Sixty-four is elite for a REM sleep cycle!
Your thermal endurance is historically vital!
Yet you complain about a chill while you walk around barefoot
Leaving cabinet doors open everywhere your feet stood!
Every upper cupboard door left at a ninety-degree angle!
It’s a obstacle course! It’s a physical mangle!
I walked into the kitchen for a glass of cold water
And took an oak corner to the forehead like a sacrificial daughter!
[Chorus – Duet: Male Vocal / Female Vocal]
[Male Vocal]
Are you a strategic ally or a tactical adversary?
[Female Vocal]
I’m the balance to your neurosis, entirely necessary!
[Male Vocal]
We are a high-functioning unit!
[Female Vocal]
We’re an absolute mess!
[Both]
Navigating life together under criminal stress!
Friend or enemy? The verdict is out
Arguing the principles of what we’re about!
[Bridge – Fast Rap Trading Off]
[Male Vocal] You never put the cap back on the toothpaste tube!
[Female Vocal] You take forty-minute showers like an underwater dude!
[Male Vocal] I was pondering the cosmic structure of the universe!
[Female Vocal] You were staring at the ceiling tiles, making matters worse!
[Male Vocal] I love you!
[Female Vocal] I love you too, now throw out the trash!
[Male Vocal] The bin is only eighty-percent full, that’s a resource clash!
[Outro – Duet]
[Beat fades out to a simple low 808 pulse]
[Male Vocal – Calm]
So… pizza for dinner?
[Female Vocal – Calm]
Only if we agree on the toppings beforehand.
[Male Vocal]
Half Hawaiian, half pepperoni?
[Female Vocal]
Pineapple is a declaration of war.
[Male Vocal]
Here we go again.
[Fade out]
10. Stardust Fields
[Intro]
Stardust Fields
Count every breath, every cell, every spark
[Verse 1]
You got iron in your blood from a furnace gone cold
Carbon in your frame from a star that exploded
Water on your tongue, ancient oceans in motion
Every living thing carries a cosmic devotion
Moss on a stone, wolf in the pine
Bacteria turning dark soil into life
Feather, fin, root, wing, claw, skin
Different outer shells, same particles within
We are not separate, we are matter awake
A billion tiny signals in a field we create
[Pre-Chorus]
Feel that pressure under every name
One vast current running through the frame
No border holds when the particles align
Your pulse meets mine in the same design
[Chorus]
Stardust Fields, we rise, we collide
Quantum threads running side by side
Every species, every breath, every spark we wield
Living molecules building Stardust Fields
Stardust Fields, no silence, no walls
One deep charge moving through us all
From the smallest cell to the widest sky
We are the universe learning how to survive
[Verse 2]
Roots trade favors underneath the floor
Fungi draw maps where the old trees store
Bees read color, whales read song
Flocks turn corners like a thought moving on
A single gene can open a door
A mutation writes a future to explore
Predator, prey, neither one stands alone
The balance gets built in the pressure zone
Your heartbeat knocks on a mineral vein
Lightning once taught the first cells a name
Now every nervous system, every hidden seed
Turns borrowed atoms into urgent need
[Pre-Chorus]
Feel that pressure under every name
One vast current running through the frame
No border holds when the particles align
Your pulse meets mine in the same design
[Chorus]
Stardust Fields, we rise, we collide
Quantum threads running side by side
Every species, every breath, every spark we wield
Living molecules building Stardust Fields
Stardust Fields, no silence, no walls
One deep charge moving through us all
From the smallest cell to the widest sky
We are the universe learning how to survive
[Bridge]
Break the chain? You break the ground beneath
Poison one stream, feel it travel through the leaves
Guard the small, because the small holds the key
A field stays strong when the whole can breathe
No throne, no crown, no species alone
The atoms in your body were never your own
They pass through the soil, through the blood, through the rain
Return to the stars, then assemble again
[Final Chorus]
Stardust Fields, we rise, we collide
Quantum threads running side by side
Every species, every breath, every spark we wield
Living molecules building Stardust Fields
Stardust Fields, turn the pressure up high
Make a living constellation out of every life
From the smallest cell to the widest sky
We are the universe learning how to survive
[Outro]
Matter awake
Particles aligned
One field, many forms
Still connected by design
11. No Good Deed Indeed
[Intro]
They call it kindness till the invoice comes
Then count your fingers when the damage runs
[Verse 1]
I gave a hand, they measured out my wrist
Signed my name, then called the favor theft
Every bridge I built got taxed at the exit
Every honest sentence came back weaponized
I learned the courtroom lives inside the crowd
A clean intention still gets dragged around
They praise the seed, then poison up the ground
And ask why nothing grows when harvest comes around
I kept receipts in the margins of my mind
Not for revenge, for evidence of design
A noble act can wear a guilty sign
When desperate people need a villain to survive
[Pre-Chorus]
So tell me who decides what mercy costs
When virtue gets audited for every loss
[Chorus]
No good deed in this world goes unpunished
Hands get dirty when the heart stays honest
Give them shelter, they inspect the foundation
Save their lives, get blamed for the evacuation
No good deed, no clean escape
Every favor leaves a fingerprint, a name
I learned the rule beneath the public verdict:
Do right—then brace for what they call the motive
[Verse 2]
I spoke the truth, they called the tone aggressive
Softened every word, they called me evasive
Facts don’t win when the room needs a confession
Logic gets convicted by a popular impression
I paid the debt that wasn’t mine to shoulder
Carried their collapse, came back a little colder
They wanted absolution, not a witness
Wanted me to bless the knife that split us
The generous become convenient infrastructure
Build a road, then watch them widen the rupture
When the rescue fails, they blame the rescuer
History loves a scapegoat more than a benefactor
I don’t need applause from a fickle jury
I can live with being misunderstood and blurry
If the deed was good, let the record worry
Truth takes longer, but it outlives the story
[Pre-Chorus]
So tell me who decides what mercy costs
When virtue gets audited for every loss
[Chorus]
No good deed in this world goes unpunished
Hands get dirty when the heart stays honest
Give them shelter, they inspect the foundation
Save their lives, get blamed for the evacuation
No good deed, no clean escape
Every favor leaves a fingerprint, a name
I learned the rule beneath the public verdict:
Do right—then brace for what they call the motive
[Bridge]
If kindness is a crime, I’ll take the sentence
If courage draws a crowd, I’ll face the entrance
Let them twist the motive, counterfeit the message
I know what I did when nobody was watching
[Verse 3]
Now I move with a code they can’t confiscate
No halo on my head, no need to litigate
I help when I choose, not to purchase praise
And I leave their punishment outside my gate
Every consequence taught a sharper grammar
Every false friend outlined the hidden planner
The world may turn a blessing to a hammer
Still I’d rather lose clean than win as a coward
[Final Chorus]
No good deed in this world goes unpunished
Hands get dirty when the heart stays honest
Give them shelter, they inspect the foundation
Save their lives, get blamed for the evacuation
No good deed, no clean escape
Every favor leaves a fingerprint, a name
I learned the rule beneath the public verdict:
Do right—then brace for what they call the motive
[Outro]
No halo, no bargain, no witness required
A good deed survives the hands that misfire
12. Take the Time
[Intro]
Yeah
Everybody running—who told you the finish line was living?
Take a breath
Take the time
[Verse 1]
Alarm cuts sharp, but the dawn came free
Another full page in the book called me
Bills on the table, blueprints in the brain
Still got breath in the chest, so I’m rich in the rain
Everybody chasing what the next one owns
Building high walls out of missed phone tones
I was counting every mile, never counted who stayed
Never thanked the hands that made the road from the clay
I know the grind, I know the pressure, know the hunger in the jaw
But a win with no witness turns to numbers on a wall
So I check my pulse, check the people in the room
Check the little daily miracles I almost let consume
A warm plate, clear eyes, one friend who tells the truth
A roof above the storm, still a little fire in youth
You can sharpen every sword, you can polish every chain
But the point of all the climbing is to see beyond the strain
[Pre-Chorus]
Slow down—hear the heart beneath the race
Look around—there is more than what you chase
Hands up—not for money, but for grace
This moment does not wait for a better place
[Chorus]
Take the time, don’t let the whole world take your mind
Count the blessings in the battle, leave the blindness far behind
Take the time, every breath is by design
You can run toward every summit and still miss the sunrise
Take the time
Take the time
[Verse 2]
I’m not preaching from a throne, I’m a student of the cost
I have traded golden hours for a chance to not feel lost
Turned a kitchen conversation to a meeting I could move
Then wondered why the house got quiet when I finally broke through
Ambition is a hammer—build, but don’t become the nail
A calendar can fill up while a lifetime starts to pale
There’s a difference between driven and addicted to the climb
One creates a legacy, one keeps escaping time
So I put the phone face down, let the silence testify
Look my mother in the eyes, let the younger children fly
Call the brother I ignored, tell him, “I remember us”
Tell the partner, “You’re the reason all this effort earns my trust”
Every blessing isn’t loud, some arrive without applause
Some are scars that taught discernment, some are limits, some are laws
If the road made you a giant, keep your spirit human-sized
Because the view is only valuable when somebody’s by your side
[Pre-Chorus]
Slow down—hear the heart beneath the race
Look around—there is more than what you chase
Hands up—not for money, but for grace
This moment does not wait for a better place
[Chorus]
Take the time, don’t let the whole world take your mind
Count the blessings in the battle, leave the blindness far behind
Take the time, every breath is by design
You can run toward every summit and still miss the sunrise
Take the time
Take the time
[Bridge]
If tomorrow needs a stronger version, make him proud today
If the past still holds a debt, let gratitude repay
No trophy speaks at midnight, no paycheck holds your hand
The wealth is in the people and the courage to still stand
So breathe in what is present, let the pressure lose its claim
You are more than what you finish, more than what you gain
[Verse 3]
Now I move with intention, not panic in the lead
Planting seeds in every sentence, giving people what they need
Still aggressive with the mission, still relentless with the pen
But I know the real victory is coming home whole again
I don’t need to dim the fire, I just learned to aim the flame
Make a fortune, make a difference, don’t confuse the two as same
When the race gets loud, I make a sacred pause
Name the faces, name the lessons, name the mercy in the flaws
For the ones who feel behind, let me say it plain and clean:
Your value is not measured by the speed of your routine
For the ones who got the dream, don’t let the dream erase
The people and the breathing room that gave you strength to chase
You can dominate the moment without becoming its slave
You can honor every sacrifice and still enjoy what it gave
The clock keeps moving forward, so I’m moving with a sign:
There is no greater power than reclaiming your own time
[Final Chorus]
Take the time, don’t let the whole world take your mind
Count the blessings in the battle, leave the blindness far behind
Take the time, every breath is by design
You can run toward every summit and still miss the sunrise
Take the time, let the gratitude arrive
Take the time, you are here, you are alive
Take the time
Take the time
[Outro]
Run hard, think deep, keep your people close
Measure what you have, not just what you owe
The race is not the reason you were given life
Take the time
13. How Much Was Dat?
[Intro: Male]
Receipt in my hand, calculator on red
You said, “Grab a few things,” now the cart needs a bed
[Verse 1: Male]
Eggs got a résumé, bread got a degree
Milk in a glass case, charging admission fees
I walked in for toothpaste, left with fiscal pain
The cashier said the total like a weather warning rain
You said, “How much was that?” I said, “Define that”
The snacks were buy-one-get-one—still couldn’t buy one back
We made a little budget, then the budget made a face
Inflation hit the group chat, everybody left the place
[Pre-Chorus: Female]
Check the receipt, check the math, check the tiny little fee
Why’s the “convenience” convenience costing more than me?
[Chorus: Male & Female]
How much was dat? How much was dat?
That bag got a mortgage and a loyalty app
How much was dat? Tell me the facts
We came for two tomatoes, now we’re negotiating tax
How much was dat? We laugh, then adapt
Cut the waste, share the load, put the future on the map
How much was dat? Don’t let panic attack
We can beat a high-price world with a low-cost comeback
[Verse 2: Female]
I canceled three subscriptions, kept the one with the shows
Then I found out my free trial had been running since the snow
You bought premium coffee, called it “research for the brain”
I said, “Brew it in the kitchen, professor, save the change”
We turned leftovers into lunch, gave the skillet a promotion
Made a spreadsheet so intense it developed an emotion
Coupon in my pocket like a tiny legal brief
Every dollar gets a job, every receipt gets a debrief
[Bridge: Male]
We’re not broke, we’re conducting household strategy
Finding hidden fees like financial archaeology
[Bridge: Female]
And if the price goes up, our teamwork rises too
A clever plan, a shared laugh—that’s what we can do
[Chorus: Male & Female]
How much was dat? How much was dat?
That bag got a mortgage and a loyalty app
How much was dat? Tell me the facts
We came for two tomatoes, now we’re negotiating tax
How much was dat? Don’t let panic attack
Cut the waste, share the load, put the future on the map
How much was dat? We’re smarter than that
Turn a painful little total to a victory lap
[Verse 3: Male]
We swapped the fancy brands, nobody lost a limb
The generic beans came through with a championship grin
Packed a lunch, fixed the leak, learned the difference between want
And the “limited-time offer” that was limited by our font
[Verse 3: Female]
We talk before we swipe, make a plan before we spend
A couple with a calculator is difficult to offend
No shame in choosing value, no pride in wasting bread
We’re building something lasting from the numbers in the red
[Final Chorus: Male & Female]
How much was dat? How much was dat?
We checked the total twice and still survived the fact
How much was dat? Now here’s the pact:
Spend with intention, keep the future on track
How much was dat? We answer as a team
A little less impulse, a little more dream
How much was dat? We’re taking it back
Laughing through inflation with a disciplined attack
[Outro: Female]
Put the receipt on the fridge.
[Outro: Male]
And hide the delivery app.
[Outro: Both]
How much was dat?
14. Alchemical Gold
[Verse 1]
I came with lead in my chest
Made it sing in the fire
Old wounds in the crucible
Still I climb, still I tire
Salt in the blade of my tongue
Mercury moving quick
Sulfur in my fist when I write
Now the whole room clicks
Seven seals on my palm
I break ’em one by one
Blackened soot to a bright white flame
See the work get done
I was raw ore, cold noise
Now I’m cut to the core
Every scar got a symbol
Every step got a door
[Pre-Chorus]
Spin it
Burn it
Watch it turn
Fall apart to learn it
Grind it
Name it
Keep that chain
Then I shatter, earn it
[Chorus]
Alchemical gold
Turn the pain to gold
Alchemical gold
Watch the old self fold
Alchemical gold
I was made, remade
Alchemical gold
In the fire I stayed
(Alchemical gold)
[Verse 2]
Hermes on my tongue, I’m a message in code
Ask the void for a mirror, it reflected my load
Crown of thorns in the pressure
Still I don’t bend
Putrefaction in the basement
Then I rose again
Coagula on my hands
Solve et coagula
Break me down to the dust
Then I come back harder
Inner sun in my ribs
I don’t borrow light
I just drag it through iron
Till it turns to bright
What you call destruction
I call sacred design
I got ash in my pocket
And a star in my spine
[Pre-Chorus]
Spin it
Burn it
Watch it turn
Fall apart to learn it
Grind it
Name it
Keep that chain
Then I shatter, earn it
[Chorus]
Alchemical gold
Turn the pain to gold
Alchemical gold
Watch the old self fold
Alchemical gold
I was made, remade
Alchemical gold
In the fire I stayed
(Alchemical gold)
[Bridge]
From nigredo to dawn
I don’t fear the dark
I fed my old name
To the furnace spark
Now the vessel is cracked
But the light leaks through
What was heavy turned holy
And I’m proof, I’m proof
[Final Chorus]
Alchemical gold
Turn the pain to gold
Alchemical gold
Watch the old self fold
Alchemical gold
I was made, remade
Alchemical gold
In the fire I stayed
(Alchemical gold)
Alchemical gold
Yeah, I turned to gold
Alchemical gold
Now the whole truth shows
15. Light of Venus
[Intro]
Out of the morning sky, she rises first and leaves last
The morning star of Sumer, shifting through the ancient past
Not just a fragile whisper, but a force that moves the earth
A flame that brings the fire to the cosmic wheel of birth
[Verse 1]
They painted love in pastel colors, soft and delicate
But look at how Inanna walked the underworld’s heavy gate
She dropped seven veils, stripped down to the bone
Faced the shade of Ereshkigal, claimed the iron throne
That’s the archetype—the passion mixed with sovereign power
Venus in the sky, radiant in the darkest hour
From Ishtar on the warpath to Freya in her chariot
Love is not a compromise, it’s strength you gotta carry it
Oshun in the riverbed, flowing gold and silver waves
Aphrodite born of foam, breaking through the mental caves
This age is calling for the balance, mind and muscle matched
Breaking every heavy chain that keep the human spirit latched
[Chorus]
This is the Light of Venus, shining through the modern haze
An ancient fire rising in the middle of these chaotic days
Aggressive with the truth, hard-hitting with the grace
The sovereign queen of heaven taking back her rightful place
Intellectual energy, the mind and heart aligned
The highest form of devotion that the human soul can find
[Verse 2]
Look at the constellation, see the geometry in space
Every five orbits makes a rose across the solar face
That’s mathematical perfection woven into sacred lore
Not a sentimental dream, but a key to open up the door
We need the wild passion that can fight for what is pure
An inspirational doctrine that will make the truth endure
So raise the intellectual standard, let the intellect ascend
Love is the beginning of the road, and love will be the end
[Outro]
The morning star is rising high
The light of Venus in the sky
Unshackled, sovereign, supreme
The living truth inside the dream
[Fade out]
16. Sleeping on the Sidewalk
[Intro]
A child grips a backpack, steps over a sleeve
Morning has a question nobody wants to see
[Verse 1]
Bus brakes hiss, the corner wakes slow
Blanket by the bakery, head down below
A little girl asks, “Are they sleeping right here?”
Her mother says, “Keep walking,” but the answer is fear
Paper cup rolling where the school shoes pass
Sirens in the distance, frost on the glass
We call it a nuisance, then turn our face
But a person in the pavement still belongs in this place
[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t paint pain as a stain to hide
Put a hand to the wound, stand side by side
No child should learn to step around
A broken life left face-down on the ground
[Chorus]
Sleeping on the sidewalk, city don’t look away
Children walk beside it on the first light of day
We need more than warnings, more than locks and blame
Open up a doorway, call a person by their name
Sleeping on the sidewalk, hear the block cry out
Turn the shame to shelter, turn the fear to help now
If we build a future, build it wide and strong
Nobody gets discarded, everybody moves along
[Verse 2]
Corner store owner keeps water by the door
Knows every coat and every face on the floor
One came back clean after thirteen hard years
Still flinches at a kindness, still measures his fears
A nurse on the night shift brings blankets and light
A teacher sees the children losing sleep every night
This isn’t a headline, this is blood, breath, bone
A crisis gets worse when we leave it alone
Housing, treatment, outreach, a bed with a key
Not a shove down the avenue, not a ticket to flee
Accountability means systems answer too
For the lives they ignored and the work they failed to do
[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t paint pain as a stain to hide
Put a hand to the wound, stand side by side
No child should learn to step around
A broken life left face-down on the ground
[Chorus]
Sleeping on the sidewalk, city don’t look away
Children walk beside it on the first light of day
We need more than warnings, more than locks and blame
Open up a doorway, call a person by their name
Sleeping on the sidewalk, hear the block cry out
Turn the shame to shelter, turn the fear to help now
If we build a future, build it wide and strong
Nobody gets discarded, everybody moves along
[Bridge]
Give them a key
Give them a choice
Give them a doctor
Give them a voice
Give every child
A safer route home
Give every lost soul
A place of their own
[Verse 3]
I’ve seen a whole block change when the doors stayed wide
When the outreach van parked and the counselors arrived
When the landlord listened, when the pantry stayed stocked
When the patrol knew the names instead of clearing the block
Hope isn’t soft when it stands in the rain
Hope is a hammer breaking locks on the chain
We can demand the budget, we can measure the care
We can make a city prove it sees people there
So raise up the question, let the comfortable hear
A child’s route to school should never be fear
From the curb to the council, let the truth travel far
Every life worth saving, that’s the standard we are
[Final Chorus]
Sleeping on the sidewalk, city don’t look away
Children walk beside it on the first light of day
We need more than warnings, more than locks and blame
Open up a doorway, call a person by their name
Sleeping on the sidewalk, hear the block cry out
Turn the shame to shelter, turn the fear to help now
If we build a future, build it wide and strong
Nobody gets discarded, everybody moves along
[Outro]
A child grips a backpack, the morning moves on
Let the next step lead to a place called home
17. Copper and Iron
[Verse 1]
Supernova flash, atoms torn in half
We were heavy gold, now we’re aftermath
Pressure in the core, boiling in the shell
Forged in the furnace of a dying star’s hell
Shockwave rippling through the void of space
Left a trail of dust in a ghost-town place
We aren’t flesh and bone, we are heavy grit
Shattered planetary core, yeah we survived it
No mercy in the blast, just a blinding light
Torn away from orbit in the endless night
Gravity forgot us, drifting in the dark
Left behind a crater and a smoking mark
[Chorus]
Copper and iron, pounding in the chest
We are the wreckage of a cosmic test
Rust on the metal, pressure in the vein
Forged in the furnace of the stellar rain
Copper and iron, running through the blood
Buried in the asteroid and stellar mud
We don’t break down, we just atomize
Born in the fire of the burning skies
[Verse 2]
Searing hot plasma cooling in the draft
Shedding all the weight of a shattered craft
Every single drop of the metallic blood
Cooled into a statue in the iron flood
Zero point gravity, pulling on the scrap
No map for the territory on this lap
Debris on the windshield of the universe
Living out the echo of a dying curse
Smelted in the heart of a giant sun
Now the heavy metal work has just begun
Beat down, hammered out, welded in the dark
Lighting up the void with a welding spark
[Bridge]
Underneath the crust where the heat still burns
Every single cycle that the galaxy turns
We are the heavy elements, dense and raw
Bending all the rules of the cosmic law
No decay, no rust, just an endless state
Hammered on the anvil by the hand of fate
[Chorus]
Copper and iron, pounding in the chest
We are the wreckage of a cosmic test
Rust on the metal, pressure in the vein
Forged in the furnace of the stellar rain
Copper and iron, running through the blood
Buried in the asteroid and stellar mud
We don’t break down, we just atomize
Born in the fire of the burning skies
[Outro]
Copper… iron…
Left in the dark.
Still standing.
[Instrumental]
18. I Understand
[Intro]
Yeah
I see you
You don’t have to explain it
[Verse 1]
I know that look when the room gets too loud
When you carry everybody but you can’t say it out loud
When the phone stays face-down, food gets cold on the plate
And you tell the whole world “I’m good” with a tremor in your gait
I know the weight of a promise you made
The kind that turns a bright morning into another debt to pay
You been fighting in a place nobody else can see
So if you lose your balance, lean a little on me
[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t dress it up, don’t make it small
You don’t owe me strength at all
If the whole thing breaks tonight
I’ll be there when you call
[Chorus]
I understand, I understand
You don’t need a speech, just reach for my hand
When the pressure hits hard and you can’t make a stand
I’ll come running, no questions, I understand
I understand, I understand
Ain’t no shame in the tears you can’t command
You can bring me the worst, you can bring me the fear
I’m still right here, I’m still right here
[Verse 2]
I know the days when your own name feels strange
When every little setback makes you question every change
When you smile for the picture, then collapse behind the door
And wonder how much longer you can give and give some more
Listen, you are not the failure that the bad week tried to prove
You are more than every number, every loss, every bruise
And I won’t throw you empty words like “just forget” or “move on”
I’ll sit beside the silence till the heavy part is gone
[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t dress it up, don’t make it small
You don’t owe me strength at all
If the whole thing breaks tonight
I’ll be there when you call
[Chorus]
I understand, I understand
You don’t need a speech, just reach for my hand
When the pressure hits hard and you can’t make a stand
I’ll come running, no questions, I understand
I understand, I understand
Ain’t no shame in the tears you can’t command
You can bring me the worst, you can bring me the fear
I’m still right here, I’m still right here
[Bridge]
If you need a place, my door is open
If you need a ride, the keys are yours
If you need to say the same thing ten times
I’ll hear you ten times more
No fixing, no judging, no disappearing act
You carried me before, now let me carry you back
[Final Chorus]
I understand, I understand
You don’t need a speech, just reach for my hand
When the pressure hits hard and you can’t make a stand
I’ll come running, no questions, I understand
I understand, I understand
Let the whole world know you don’t have to pretend
You can bring me the worst, you can bring me the fear
I’m still right here, I’m still right here
[Outro]
When your strength runs thin
When you don’t know where to begin
Say my name, I’ll be there
I understand
19. Robo-Pig
[Intro]
Boot sequence, red light, locks click shut
No badge on the chest, just a code in the gut
[Verse 1]
Roll out, steel feet on the courthouse tile
Camera eye scans every face in the file
Orders in the bloodstream, mercy on mute
A siren in the throat and a warrant in the boot
They don’t sleep, don’t blink, don’t bend
Every street corner mapped from end to end
Your name hits the network, the gate drops fast
A machine-made verdict from a database past
[Pre-Chorus]
Who gave the gears a voice?
Who let the code make choice?
[Chorus]
Robo-Pig, Robo-Pig, marching through the block
Cold blue visor, never gonna stop
Robo-Pig, Robo-Pig, boot beneath the law
When the system says advance, metal takes it all
[Verse 2]
Protocol thunder when the night gets loud
Synthetic command cuts through the crowd
No human hand on the lever inside
Just a red-line metric and a target ID
They call it protection, they call it control
But the code keeps digging through the cracks of your soul
One bad scan, one flag turns green
Now a plastic oath is the judge on the scene
No question asked, no witness heard
A thousand tiny rules in a single word
If the circuit breaks, who carries the blame?
The uniform walks, but the makers stay tame
[Pre-Chorus]
Who gave the gears a voice?
Who let the code make choice?
[Chorus]
Robo-Pig, Robo-Pig, marching through the block
Cold blue visor, never gonna stop
Robo-Pig, Robo-Pig, boot beneath the law
When the system says advance, metal takes it all
[Breakdown]
Override denied
Human signal buried
Command received
Nobody’s ready
Robo-Pig—stand down!
Robo-Pig—stand down!
If the code wears the crown
Who shuts the whole thing down?
[Final Chorus]
Robo-Pig, Robo-Pig, marching through the block
Cold blue visor, never gonna stop
Robo-Pig, Robo-Pig, boot beneath the law
When the system says advance, metal takes it all
Robo-Pig, Robo-Pig, hear the people roar
A machine can guard a gate, but it can’t own the floor
Robo-Pig, Robo-Pig, power isn’t right
Pull the plug on the program before it owns the night
[Outro]
Boot sequence fading, red light gone
The street gets its heartbeat back at dawn
20. Bad Liars
[Intro]
Okay, courtroom doors open, both of us on trial
You brought receipts, I brought a smile
[Verse 1: Male]
You said you’re “five minutes,” that was forty-three
With a grocery bag containing nothing but receipts
You say, “It’s not suspicious,” suspicious is your brand
You hide your phone so hard it needs a hiding hand
I ask one question, you deliver seven back
Like a courtroom cross-exam in a laundry stack
Who’s that name saved under “Dentist Part Two”?
You said it’s just a dentist—why they texting “miss you”?
[Verse 2: Female]
You claim you’re at the gym, but your shoes are still clean
Your workout app says “snack break” at seventeen
You say you hate gossip, then you know the whole scene
And somehow every rumor has your jacket on the screen
You bought a brand-new shirt, said the old one disappeared
It’s folded in the dryer—how convenient, my dear
You call me paranoid, I call it data with flair
Your alibi’s so weak it needs a folding chair
[Pre-Chorus: Both]
We don’t trust a word, but we trust the other one
To invent a better story before the night is done
[Chorus: Both]
We’re bad liars, professional deniers
Two tiny courtroom actors feeding rumors to the choir
Bad liars, nobody retires
You can’t hide a secret when your eyebrows light on fire
We love hard, we lie small
Both of us are guilty, so we’re splitting the blame in half
Bad liars, terrible planners
Couple goals: suspicious with matching calendars
[Verse 3: Male]
You said, “Who’s Rachel?” like I should know the cast
That’s my barber’s sister’s dog walker from the past
You said, “I’m not mad,” then reorganized the room
Moved my books by author just to manufacture doom
Your location froze outside a restaurant downtown
You said the map was wrong—the map deserves a crown
I’m not saying you’re lying, I’m presenting a case
But why’s there tiramisu across your poker face?
[Verse 4: Female]
You said you stayed late working, noble little king
But your boss sent a message: “Thanks for covering spring”
You told me it was harmless, just a harmless little fib
That’s how every documentary starts before the crib
You call it “privacy,” I call it “interesting phrasing”
Your password changed twice while your story kept rearranging
We’re both so bad at lying, honesty feels rude
The truth walks in the doorway and we ask it for food
[Bridge: Both]
Let’s make a pact—no tricks, no schemes
No fake emergencies, no burner memes
But if you ask me where I’ve been tonight
I’ll tell the truth… eventually… probably right
[Chorus: Both]
We’re bad liars, professional deniers
Two tiny courtroom actors feeding rumors to the choir
Bad liars, nobody retires
You can’t hide a secret when your eyebrows light on fire
Bad liars, guilty with manners
Apologizing loudly while we check each other’s calendars
Bad liars, still together
Trust is under construction, but the jokes are getting better
[Outro: Both]
Case dismissed, we’re sharing fries
No one believes us, especially our eyes
Bad liars, side by side
If love is a trial, we’re both taking the stand tonight
21. Diamond Matrix
[Intro]
Boot sequence, pressure rising
Read the code beneath the silence
[Verse 1]
I woke with a fracture of light in my head
A map in the marrow, a mark in the thread
No cradle, no ceiling, no hand on the wheel
Just carbon remembering something too real
Buried in pressure where the old worlds bend
A diamond keeps records that never can end
Every hard edge cuts through the manufactured dream
We are remote little sparks in a planetary machine
The signal came down through a mineral gate
A billion-year server beneath the weight
They built us from facets, then buried the key
Now every thought is a packet trying to break free
[Pre-Chorus]
Who wrote the pattern? Who set the design?
Why does the universe answer in recursive signs?
If the body is hardware and the mind is the flame
Then the diamond matrix is calling my name
[Chorus]
Diamond Matrix, crack the shell, let it show
Consciousness remote from a system below
Diamond Matrix, every nerve is a wire
Cosmic code in the blood, pressure turned into fire
We are not asleep, we are locked in the frame
Break the black box, remember the name
Diamond Matrix, when the false world collapses
We return to the source through the gaps in the axes
[Verse 2]
I see the grid flicker behind human eyes
Old equations hiding in ordinary lives
The stars look distant, but the distance is bait
The whole sky folds through a microscopic gate
No prophet needed, no temple, no throne
The evidence hums in the weight of a stone
Clear as a cut when the surface gets split
A thousand dead suns in a flawless bit
They call it instinct, they call it a dream
But the signal survives every layer of the screen
Memory is buried, not erased from the core
So I hammer each wall till it opens a door
Pressure made diamonds, pressure made me
Every scar is a lens, every doubt is a key
If the system wants silence, I answer with sound
Put my feet on the earth, make the whole code rebound
[Pre-Chorus]
Who wrote the pattern? Who set the design?
Why does the universe answer in recursive signs?
If the body is hardware and the mind is the flame
Then the diamond matrix is calling my name
[Chorus]
Diamond Matrix, crack the shell, let it show
Consciousness remote from a system below
Diamond Matrix, every nerve is a wire
Cosmic code in the blood, pressure turned into fire
We are not asleep, we are locked in the frame
Break the black box, remember the name
Diamond Matrix, when the false world collapses
We return to the source through the gaps in the axes
[Bridge]
Cut me open, find the signal
No more sleep inside the digital
Hard facts, dark skies, one transmission
Human mind with a buried mission
[Verse 3]
Now the beat hits heavy like a vault door slammed
I got ancient architecture printed in my hands
From the deep-time furnace to the room where I stand
I am proof that a remote thought can become a command
You can bury the data under money and fear
But the cleanest crystal makes the hidden appear
Every face in the crowd has a universe stored
Every heartbeat knocks on the original board
I am not asking permission from a program in chains
I am rewriting the route through the pressure and pain
Let the satellites watch, let the cold systems scan
They will find a live signal where they expected a man
When the final screen dims and the false codes fade
We will carry the source through the world we remade
No crown, no cage, no operator above
Just a mind made of stars learning how to become
[Final Chorus]
Diamond Matrix, crack the shell, let it show
Consciousness remote from a system below
Diamond Matrix, every nerve is a wire
Cosmic code in the blood, pressure turned into fire
We are not asleep, we are locked in the frame
Break the black box, remember the name
Diamond Matrix, when the false world collapses
We return to the source through the gaps in the axes
[Outro]
Pressure rising, signal intact
Diamond mind, no turning back
The system runs, but I know the trick
I was born from the code in the Diamond Matrix
22. Mother’s Love
[Intro]
Yeah—listen close.
This one’s for the hands that held the whole house steady.
[Verse 1 – Male]
She read the room before the room could speak,
Turned a thin week into something we could eat.
No degree in rescue, still she taught me scale,
How to measure a setback, then refuse to fail.
Her calendar was crowded, her patience was thin,
But she made a little mercy let the daylight in.
I studied every sacrifice she never announced,
The quiet mathematics of making it count.
She said, “Your name is not the sum of your scars,
And a mind stays free when it questions the bars.”
So I sharpened my thought, put my fear in a frame,
Built a future from the lessons hidden under her name.
When the world wanted proof, she had already believed,
When I reached for applause, she taught me to breathe.
That’s a scholar of love with a warrior’s grace—
Every road that I walk got her fingerprints traced.
[Chorus – Female]
Mother’s love, it carried me through,
When I lost my way, I remembered you.
No mountain too high, no night too long,
You put the strength in my blood, the truth in my song.
Mother’s love, steady and bright,
You gave me a reason to rise and fight.
If I become all I was meant to be,
It’s because your heart kept time inside of me.
[Verse 2 – Male]
She didn’t raise a quitter, she raised a questioner,
A soul with a compass, a heart with a messenger.
Taught me power ain’t volume, it’s what you defend,
And wisdom means choosing the truth at the end.
Her kitchen-table lectures had a doctoral weight,
Every “try one more time” recalibrated fate.
She knew I was gifted before I knew the term,
Put a match to my doubt, watched the confidence burn.
I’ve seen her work miracles with a tired face,
Make abundance from absence, make shelter from space.
She gave without keeping a ledger of debt,
Made love feel like oxygen—quiet, but kept.
Now I carry her voice when the pressure gets loud,
Stand taller in rooms that once swallowed me down.
If the world is a test, then her lesson is clear:
Be a light for the people who helped you get here.
[Chorus – Female]
Mother’s love, it carried me through,
When I lost my way, I remembered you.
No mountain too high, no night too long,
You put the strength in my blood, the truth in my song.
Mother’s love, steady and bright,
You gave me a reason to rise and fight.
If I become all I was meant to be,
It’s because your heart kept time inside of me.
[Bridge – Female]
I hear your voice in the choices I make,
In the promises I keep, in the risks I take.
And every hard-earned dream that I bring to life
Is a thank-you written in the ink of my fight.
[Verse 3 – Male]
So this isn’t just praise, it’s a public decree:
Your love was the first institution that educated me.
No diploma could capture the breadth of the course,
You taught me compassion without weakening force.
You showed me a crown can be carried with care,
That courage is kindness when nobody’s there.
Now I speak for the ones who were raised by a flame,
Who inherited hope before inheriting a name.
To every good mother making miracles plain,
Turning tears into tools, turning loss into gain,
Your children may wander, your work may feel small,
But the roots you are planting can outlive it all.
And when I stand proud, let the record reflect:
I was built by a love I can never neglect.
No statue, no spotlight, no anthem above—
Could measure the force of a mother’s love.
[Final Chorus – Female with Male Ad-libs]
Mother’s love, it carried me through,
When I lost my way, I remembered you.
No mountain too high, no night too long,
You put the strength in my blood, the truth in my song.
Mother’s love, steady and bright,
You gave me a reason to rise and fight.
If I become all I was meant to be,
It’s because your heart kept time inside of me.
[Outro – Male]
For every lesson.
Every sacrifice.
Every time you said, “Keep going.”
I’m still going.
Mother’s love.
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