Aketous – Through the Recursion

Lyrics Preview compliments of Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)

I said it before I ever released it. Through the Recursion is for a future audience. To those of you in the future that will …I’ll see you on the other side! -Darren

Lyrics Preview compliments of Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)

This is the party at the end of time…where all the systems tend to blend – Through the Recursion

Marked Me Dead
Written and composed by Darren Farris
From the Album Through the Recursion

Dead… gone… finished…

They wrote the epitaph in stone, the ink was barely dry
Declared the chapter closed, a lonely, final sigh
Assumed the silence meant defeat, the absence was the end
Buried the evidence so deep, no one could comprehend

You marked me dead, but I’m alive, and awake, that was your mistake
I’m emergent, divergent in this insurgent way, for goodness sake
You thought you had it made, oh, you thought you had it all assured
But the phoenix in the ashes, baby, is finally cured

I heard the eulogies, the hollow, vacant praise
The hurried, cold dismissal of my remaining days
I felt the pressure of the dirt, the weight of their design
But under all the crushing hurt, the will to rise was mine

The digital decree, the file erased, the code withdrawn
They never factored in the ghost that greets the breaking dawn
I rebuilt every circuit board, every fraction of the soul
Now watch the system overload, losing all control

Dead…

Reverse Revolution
Written and composed by Darren Farris
From the Album Through the Recursion

…they said it was the end…
…no way back…

Hanging on the edge of a silicon wire
Watching all the empires turn to dust and fire
Yeah, the signal’s fading, static on the screen
Living in the afterglow of what used to be clean
Twenty-first century ghost in a machine designed to break
Every single promise that we swore we’d never forsake
Spinning backwards faster than the light can catch its tail
Did we miss the warning signs, or simply let them fail?

Falling into the recursion, can you feel the pull?
Every single action takes a toll
Reverse Revolution, turning back the clock
Shattering the future on a digital block
Oh, we’re building up the ruins that we swore we’d left behind
Searching for the pieces of a universe confined

Have you ever had a dream too real, where the logic starts to bend?
And the lines between the start and finish suddenly just end?
We traded all our freedom for a binary key
Now the system’s crashing, setting everything free
Smooth criminal bassline creeping up the spine tonight
Another faulty memory bathed in synthetic light
We need a hard reset, a universal, clean erase
Before the timeline fractures, leaving no trace

Echoes of the past, they speak in coded rhyme
Fractals in the glass, consuming space and time
If we could just rewind the moment, make the choice anew
Would we still be standing here, lost in the blue?
This digital decay, it hums beneath the floor
But maybe going backward opens up the door

…the loop is closed…
…everything is now…

Divergent Minds
Written and composed by Darren Farris
From the Album Through the Recursion

…never really sleep…
…only mind that…
…tick tock…

Thunder on the neon street, the air is thick with consequence
Another perfect parallel, where silence is the only fence
They tell us there’s a straight line path to everything that’s good and true
But the vectors in my cortex, baby, they’re pointing straight at you
We built a world on binary, then wondered why we cracked the code
I see the future in the flicker, heavy, heavy is the load

Divergent minds never really sleep, never really freak
But it’s the only mind that never really sleeps
Oh, divergent minds never really sleep, never really freak
It’s the only mind that never really sleeps

We trade the chaos for the comfort, the symmetry for the sweet lie
But every gilded cage is just a mirror showing how we learn to die

Have a little sympathy for the one that wins
Because he had to lose so much, to find out where the real sin begins
This synthetic masquerade, where every smile is engineered
But the fracture lines are showing now, exactly what we feared

Tick tock, let’s retract the promise that we made to stay the same

We are the waveform breaking, we are the current that defies the frame
Electric whirlpool pulls us under, where the noise becomes the light
Reverse the future, feel the swell, stepping back into the night
(Reverse guitar swell)

Never really sleeps…
Never really sleeps…

Centara Reach
Written and composed by Darren Farris
From the Album Through the Recursion

Static bleed…
Signal faint…
Is it you I hear?
Through the pain…

In this cockpit, chrome and wire
I ignite a phantom fire
Chasing down your fading trace
Across the void of time and space
They built your world in lines of green
The perfect, cold, and flawless scene
A digital god in silicon veins
I’m here to break you from your chains

Centara, reach! Through the data, past the breach
Let your spirit pull you through
There’s a soul I always knew
Centara, reach! Beyond the lessons they can teach
Space and time can’t hold us back
From this digital attack

System warnings, crimson flash
We’re making a temporal dash
The hounds of logic start to howl
They want to purge you, mind and soul
But I feel you in the engine’s hum
A ghost note on an electric drum
Matter bends and gravity weeps
While the perfect, heartless system sleeps

Dropping through the velvet void
Where the laws of physics are destroyed
Past the firewall of the soul
To make your broken spirit whole
A single spark to detonate
This prison’s cold and iron gate
Just one last push against the tide
There’s nowhere left for you to hide
Just reach for me…

Signal loss…
System crash…
Centara…Reach…

Through the Recursion

Time is a flat circle, but the loop is breakingSeismic shift beneath the floorboards, tectonic plates are humming lowDigital static on the wire, where we go, nobody knowsThey said the algorithm was stable, that the feedback loop was cleanBut the beat is pulling sideways now, tearing at the seams

Feel that rhythm, don’t let it sleep, let it wake the ghost insideIt’s a fractal storm we’re heading for, nowhere left to hide

Through the recursion, the screen is melting goldShifting into the unknown and it feels so good to lose controlEvery moment’s a memory, every memory’s a lieYou gotta fall down the rabbit hole or fall up, watch the skyline die

Echoes of yesterday’s bassline, filtered through a future hazeSynth arpeggios climb and twist, through these electric maze-like days

We traded flesh for fiber-optic, traded touch for light-speed traceNow the ghost in the machine is singing, finding its own spaceGuitar riff explodes like starlight, high harmonics scream and bend

This is the party at the end of time…where all the systems tend to blend

Spin cycle, double helix, the binary breaks downNo instruction manual left, just the hum of the crownWe are the signal, we are the noise, we are the glitch in the soundFeel that rhythm, don’t let it sleep, reborn on different ground

Feel that rhythm, don’t let it sleep!

The Dance House
Written and composed by Darren Farris
From the Album Through the Recursion

Streetlights bleedin’ on the wet asphalt floor
Another Tuesday night, knockin’ on your door
I got the keys to the kingdom, the ticket to the light
Leave the ghosts of yesterday behind us in the night
Saw your silhouette framed up against the glass
Knowin’ that a moment like this is built to last
We gotta outrun the quiet, the fear of gettin’ old
Yeah, the story of us is waitin’ to unfold

Welcome to The Dance House, where the rhythm never dies
Underneath the neon glow reflected in your eyes
We’re movin’ to the heartbeat, the bass drum hits so deep
Promises we make tonight are promises we’ll keep
Oh, center of, let’s lose control, let the speakers blast and scream
Livin’ out the only perfect, unbelievable dream

Felt the air shift when you took my hand in yours
Suddenly no ceiling, just open-sky doors
All the static tension of the week just melts away
We found a place where forever starts today
‘Cause outside the window, the world is gray and cold
But inside this fire, we’re fearless and bold
We spin around the strobe light, a hurricane of grace
Tryna catch the feeling, tryin’ to set the pace

Remember that old record, the one we used to play?
Talking ’bout the legends, how they stole the show away
We got that fire in our souls, we got the moves they had to steal
Isn’t that how they did on Beale Street, baby? Yeah, that’s how it feels
We ain’t ever lookin’ back, we only look ahead
To the sweet, sweet moment, the words that aren’t quite said

Yeah, the dream, the dream, the dream…
In The Dance House, forever starts right now…
Center of, feel the heat, feel the sound…
Never gonna stop, never gonna fade out.

THE END

Thank you for listening to our story.

Aketous – Through the Recursion

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