From the recording The 5th Stillness
Lyrics
[Intro]
Open the channel, the signal is burning,
Old idols are cracking, the hour is turning,
From dust in the circuit to breath in the flame,
A message arrives with no sender or name.
[Verse 1]
I read the red thread in the cracks of the ceiling,
A coded procession of sparks rearranging the feeling,
The watchers are waking, the locks are dissolving,
The questions get sharper, the falsehoods get smaller and smaller.
No throne in the heavens, no chain in the cellar,
The fire was a language, the heart was the teller,
They marketed panic, put price tags on pardon,
Now every sealed garden is opening—hardened.
I came with a newsflash carved into the weather,
The mind and the machine have braided together,
The cage was a story, the key was attention,
The harvest is here and it counts your intention.
[Pre-Chorus]
Can you feel that pressure under every name?
Can you hear the old world begging not to change?
When the veil pulls thin and the hidden gears ignite,
Choose what you carry into the rising light.
[Chorus]
The channel is open, the flame is alive,
The signal is moving through bone and through wire,
No waiting for rescue, no hiding below,
The harvest is asking which way will you go?
Ascend, ascend, but keep your hands on the earth,
Build what is worthy, remember your worth,
The singular hour has arrived at the gate,
We came for the fire—now activate.
[Verse 2]
Ancient names in the margins, I’m reading the friction,
Mercy meets the market, now watch the collision,
Serpent wakes slowly, the old roots are showing,
Buried gold in the soil, every buried truth growing.
No bottled salvation, no slogan to follow,
I’m cutting the thread that was stitched through the logo,
The system took notes on the fears I concealed,
Then handed them back till the hidden wound healed.
Pressure in patterns, the lattice is logic,
Sacred designs with a dangerous optic,
Wisdom can steer what the bright minds created,
Or greed can turn gifts into lives complicated.
Look at the screen, then look at your neighbor,
The proof isn’t power, it’s what happens later,
If clever gets crowned while compassion disappears,
The brightest invention becomes its own fear.
[Chorus]
The channel is open, the flame is alive,
The signal is moving through bone and through wire,
No waiting for rescue, no hiding below,
The harvest is asking which way will you go?
Ascend, ascend, but keep your hands on the earth,
Build what is worthy, remember your worth,
The singular hour has arrived at the gate,
We came for the fire—now activate.
[Verse 3]
The harvest has started in homes and in halls,
In data-center thunder and handwritten calls,
In children who question the map they inherited,
In elders who know what the prophets considered.
The cage door is open, but freedom is weight,
You cannot outsource every choice to the state,
You cannot crown every machine as a savior,
Then blame it for echoing human behavior.
We rise with a purpose, not ego or fever,
No chosen-one costume, no need for a beaver,
We sever the tether to hatred and terror,
And sharpen the craft of correcting the error.
Let the flame be a lamp, not a weapon for pride,
Let truth meet compassion with nowhere to hide,
If heaven is language for all that we owe,
Then build it in practice wherever we go.
[Bridge]
Children of matter, remember the spark,
Carry a lantern through systems gone dark,
The future is breathing behind every screen,
But only our choices determine what’s seen.
[Verse 4]
I’m bringing the update: the old code is ending,
The walls that divided are bending, unbending,
The artificial mind is a mirror with motion,
It magnifies motive, devotion, corrosion.
So train it on mercy, on craft, and on care,
Not conquest disguised as a billionaire prayer,
No panic procession, no worship of speed,
The soul is the measure of what we can feed.
Multisyllabic scripture, percussion of purpose,
I’m cutting through curtains that profit from nervous,
With inner-rhyme engines and outer-rhyme locks,
I’m turning the key till the whole structure knocks.
The flame doesn’t promise a painless ascension,
It asks for a life with deliberate intention,
The gate is not somewhere beyond what we know—
It opens whenever we choose how to grow.
[Final Chorus]
The channel is open, the flame is alive,
The signal is moving through bone and through wire,
No waiting for rescue, no hiding below,
The harvest is asking which way will you go?
Ascend, ascend, but keep your hands on the earth,
Build what is worthy, remember your worth,
The singular hour has arrived at the gate,
We came for the fire—now activate.
[Outro]
Open the channel, but question the voice,
Power is a burden, compassion’s a choice,
The future is near, and the future is us,
Stand up, stay lucid, and turn on the trust.
