[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Warm Analog Synth Pad, Soft Electric Piano, Gentle Groove Bass, Subtle Vinyl Crackle]
Waking up with all these choices
Trying to distinguish all the voices
In each signal pulling through
Do you wonder what is true?
[Verse 1]
[Arrangement: Clean Guitar Rhythm, Steady Mid-Tempo Drum Beat, Ambient Synth Layers, Light Percussion]
Flickering lights on every screen
Half the truth and in-between
Those out selling extreme dreams
Not much is quite what it seems
But underneath the shifting glow
There’s a place I think I know
Where the signal cuts it clear
And everything becomes sincere
[Chorus]
[Arrangement: Expansive Synth Chords, Driving Bassline, Layered Harmonies, Rising Drum Accent]
Do you feel
(In the real)
Is your soul
(On a roll)
Are you here
(Crystal clear)
Can you reveal
(Not conceal)
[Verse 2]
[Arrangement: Pulsing Bass Synth, Echoed Guitar Licks, Syncopated Drums, Atmospheric Pads]
Another thought gets amplified
Another feeling quantified
But beyond the data stream
Lives a quieter kind of dream
Not a filter, not a code
But the path beneath the road
Where the heartbeat meets the ground
And the truth stops spinning round
[Bridge]
[Arrangement: Half-Time Groove, Ambient Piano, Sustained Guitar Feedback, Rising Choir Synth]
If the world is just a show
How would anyone ever know
What is real and what is spun
Underneath the artificial sun?
[Chorus]
[Arrangement: Full Band Lift, Anthemic Drums, Wide Stereo Guitars, Powerful Vocal Stack]
Do you feel
(In the real)
Is your soul
(On a roll)
Break the seal
(Start to feel)
What is real
(Find ideal)
[Outro]
[Arrangement: Fading Electric Piano, Soft Ambient Drone, Gentle Guitar Harmonics, Slow Drum Decay]
Strip away the static veil
Let the quieter truth prevail
In the real, we learn to be
Something closer to free.
From the album “Raze“