[Instrumental Intro: Reversed Piano Chords, Pulsing Bass Sequence, Clock Tick Percussion, Expanding Ambient Synths]
[Intro]
Start to finish
End to start
Cycles turning
Through the dark
Forward motion
Backward glance
Time collapsing
In the dance
[Verse 1]
Front of line becomes the rear
Distant futures reappear
Moments buried underneath
Rise again beyond belief
Ashes fall then forests grow
High tides fade to rivers low
Nothing fixed in one direction
Reality becomes reflection
[Pre-Chorus]
What arrives
Will someday leave
What departs
Returns beneath
[Chorus]
First is last
(Last is first)
Future is past
(Quenched is thirst)
Rise and fall
(Reverse the flow)
Fast becomes slow
(High becomes low)
[Instrumental Break: Reverse Cymbals, Delayed Guitar Echoes, Rhythmic Synth Arpeggios]
[Verse 2]
Mountain peaks erode to sand
Cities vanish from the land
New beginnings grow from dust
Time dissolves the strongest trust
Seeds become the towering tree
Then decay returns to sea
Order shifts and cycles spin
What moves out comes back again
[Bridge]
Calendars and measured days
Only map the shifting maze
Past and future intertwine
Inside the boundaries of the mind
Not much permanent remains
Only motion changing names
Birth and ending overlap
Across the universal map
[Build Section: Layered Choir Synths, Intensifying Percussion, Rising Bass Pulses]
Turn around
(Change the view)
What was old
(Becomes the new)
Close the circle
(Start again)
Time dissolves
(Where things begin)
[Final Chorus]
First is last
(Last is first)
Future is past
(Quenched is thirst)
Near turns far
(Day to night)
Dark becomes light
(Left becomes right)
[Outro: Fading Clock Sounds, Ambient Drone, Reversed Piano Slowly Dissolves]
One direction
Rarely stays
Time rewrites
Its endless phase
[Silence]
From the album “Opposite“