Lyrics
[Intro] [instrumental — slow mechanical pulse, building drone, distant clang] [Verse 1] [Manic, breathless, half-spoken, frantic] Reality happened to me today. It came in through the skin. Something's loud in my chest. Heart like a fist on a door . Is it fear, is it love, is it nothing. I can't read it, I can't read it, What is this? What is this! Somebody tell me what this is. [Bridge 1 — Tarot] [Vocoded spoken word, calm, oracular, ominous] The Tower told me it ends in the fall. The Star told me it ends in the light. The Hermit told me to carry it alone. The Lovers told me to choose. [Verse 2] [Manic, escalating] So I asked how it ends. The ending is the name. The ending is the name. But I'm stuck in the middle. reading the same line. reading the same line. mid-story. mid-story. [Bridge 2 — Tarot] [Vocoded spoken word, calm, oracular, ominous] The Sun told me it ends simple, it ends bright. The Moon told me it only fools you. The Wheel told me it ends where it began. Death told me it ends. [Build] [Manic, accelerating, layering] Every card is certain and they all disagree. So I'll pick the one I can live inside, I'll pick the ending I can survive. Coherence at any cost. Coherence at any cost. Name it, name it, Just to make it stop [Drop] [Bridge 3 — breakdown] [Vocoded spoken word, quiet, hollow] So I won't know what this was until it's over. The meaning arrives the day the feeling's gone. Reality happened to me today. I'll learn what it meant the day it ends. [Coda] [Vocoded spoken word, ominous, dark — chant, building then dissolving] Tell me how it ends! Tell me what I felt! The ending picks the feeling! Tell me how it ends! Coherence at any cost! Every feeling's a sentence I can't read. We are the story that refused to stop...