[Silence]
[Instrumental: Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Pulsing Bass, Organ Swell, Muted Guitar Chops, Rising Synth Filter]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
Epistemic: we may only fully recognize such a transition in hindsight, once the system response is already well underway.
We don’t see the phase change around.
Only after it’s going down
(Down, down, down)
When the curve has already bent.
(And chances already spent.)
[Instrumental]
[Guitar Solo: Echoing, Slightly Dissonant]
[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]
[Verse 1]
We build our models carefully
With data in a line
Assuming that tomorrow
Will resemble one more time
We trust the average behavior
The smoothness of the trend
Not seeing that the structure
Is approaching an end
[Pre-Chorus]
Signals blend
(Into noise)
Noise becomes
(Our decoy)
[Chorus]
Epistemic: Things that pertain
(… to how we know what we know)
In fact…
(What constitutes a fact)
…or the limits of our understanding
(Our damned demanding)
The edge of certainty
(Begins to bend)
Where explanation
(Can’t defend)
[Verse 2]
A system shifts in silence
A threshold disappears
But language lags behind it
For years and years and years
We label what is familiar
We name what we can see
While deeper reorganizations
Rewrite reality
[Pre-Chorus]
We measure
(After the fact)
We explain
(Once it’s intact)
[Chorus]
Epistemic: Things that pertain
(… to how we know what we know)
In fact…
(What constitutes a fact)
…or the limits of our understanding
(Our damned demanding)
We learn too late
(What we didn’t know)
As the hidden fractures
Begin to show
[Refrain]
In hindsight
(20/20)
New insight
(Needed plenty)
In hindsight
(Incite insight)
[Bridge]
[Music Drops to Bass, Ambient Synth, Sparse Piano]
We think we see reality
But we see its reflection
Filtered through assumption
And delayed detection
The world moves first
Then knowledge follows slow
By the time we name it
It already chose to grow
[Build]
Too late…
(To define it)
Too late…
(To confine it)
Too late…
(To align it)
It already shifted while we were trying to find it
[Instrumental Break]
[Expanding Guitar Feedback, Organ Swells, Rhythmic Drum Pulse]
[Final Chorus]
[Full Band, Choir Harmony]
Epistemic: Things that pertain
(… to how we know what we know)
In fact…
(What constitutes a fact)
…or the limits of our understanding
(Our damned demanding)
[Refrain]
In hindsight
(20/20)
New insight
(Needed plenty)
In hindsight
(Incite insight)
[Outro]
[Soft Organ, Fading Guitar Harmonics]
In hindsight
(20/20)
New insight
(Needed plenty)
In hindsight
(Incite insight)
(End of the music)
[Silence]
Epistemic…
(End of the music)
[End]
From the album “Cracked Windshield“