[Intro – Circular Guitar Motif, Looping Bassline, Subtle Drum Pattern]
Back where you started, same old track
Every step just circles back
Footprints fading in the dust
Built on memory and rust
[Verse 1]
You write a story, then erase
Every truth you can’t replace
Pages turning, but they bend
Right back to the same old end
Every chapter feels the same
Just a mirror of your name
Rewriting what you swore was real
Till you forget just how to feel
[Pre-Chorus]
You’re chasing your own tail
.. does it never fail
(It never fails)
Every turn becomes the same stale trail
(You never derail)
[Chorus]
Chasing your tale
(The fallacy of your legacy)
Chasing your tail
(Failed quasi-history)
Building myths that will derail
(From reality)
Chasing your tale
(The fallacy of your legacy)
[Verse 2 – Groove Deepens, Slight Disorientation in Rhythm]
Every version slightly skewed
Truth distorted, misconstrued
You revise and you refine
Till it circles back in time
What you were and what you claim
Start to sound exactly same
Fiction stitched into your skin
Where does ending even begin?
[Pre-Chorus]
Every answer that you nail
Just becomes another tale
(It never fails)
[Chorus]
Chasing your tale
(The fallacy of your legacy)
Chasing your tail
(Failed quasi-history)
Lost inside a winding trail
(Of identity)
Chasing your tale
(The fallacy of your legacy)
[Refrain]
Going round and round
(Spiraling down, down, down)
Chasing round and round
(Spiraling down, down, down)
No solid ground
(Just echoes of the sound)
Going round and round
(Spiraling down, down, down)
[Bridge – Breakdown, Echoed Vocals, Minimal Instrumentation]
If every story feeds itself
Then nothing’s left upon the shelf
Just fragments of a looped design
Where every past becomes a sign
You run ahead but face the rear
The future looks just like last year
And every truth you try to hold
Turns back into the tale retold
[Build – Rising Guitar, Intensifying Rhythm]
Break the loop or let it spin
Where does truth end and begin?
Every cycle pulling tight
Twirling wrong into “alright”
[Final Chorus – Full, Hypnotic, Layered Vocals]
Chasing your tale
(The fallacy of your legacy)
Chasing your tail
(Failed quasi-history)
Nothing new to set the sail
(Just circularity)
Chasing your tale
(The fallacy of your legacy)
[Final Refrain – Expanded, Trance-like]
Going round and round
(Spiraling down, down, down)
Chasing round and round
(Spiraling down, down, down)
No end found
(Just looping sound)
Going round and round
(Spiraling down, down, down)
[Outro – Guitar Loop Slowly Degrades, Tape-Warp Effect]
Round… and round… and down
A tale that won’t come round…
[Silence]
From the album “Exit Strategy“