{"id":1523,"date":"2026-04-12T02:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:39:45","slug":"aketous-through-the-recursion-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/aketous-through-the-recursion-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Aketous &#8211; Through the Recursion Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e393e15 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e393e15\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2a294a4\" data-id=\"2a294a4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d64b2f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d64b2f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<h1 class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><strong>Aketous \u2013 Through the Recursion<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Lyrics Preview compliments of Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I said it before I ever released it.\u00a0 Through the Recursion is for a future audience. To those of you in the future that will &#8230;I&#8217;ll see you on the other side! -Darren<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\u00a0<iframe src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/30RuyAzVTjlpG2FUUzUkwe?utm_source=generator&amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d38c118 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d38c118\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f7806c3\" data-id=\"f7806c3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-935495f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"935495f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>Lyrics Preview compliments of Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the party at the end of time<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\u2026where all the systems tend to blend &#8211; Through the Recursion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marked Me Dead<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Written and composed by Darren Farris<\/em><br \/>\n<em>From the Album<\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>Through the Recursion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dead\u2026 gone\u2026 finished\u2026<\/p>\n<p>They wrote the epitaph in stone, the ink was barely dry<br \/>\nDeclared the chapter closed, a lonely, final sigh<br \/>\nAssumed the silence meant defeat, the absence was the end<br \/>\nBuried the evidence so deep, no one could comprehend<\/p>\n<p>You marked me dead, but I\u2019m alive, and awake, that was your mistake<br \/>\nI\u2019m emergent, divergent in this insurgent way, for goodness sake<br \/>\nYou thought you had it made, oh, you thought you had it all assured<br \/>\nBut the phoenix in the ashes, baby, is finally cured<\/p>\n<p>I heard the eulogies, the hollow, vacant praise<br \/>\nThe hurried, cold dismissal of my remaining days<br \/>\nI felt the pressure of the dirt, the weight of their design<br \/>\nBut under all the crushing hurt, the will to rise was mine<\/p>\n<p>You marked me dead, but I\u2019m alive, and awake, that was your mistake<br \/>\nI\u2019m emergent, divergent in this insurgent way, for goodness sake<br \/>\nYou thought you had it made, oh, you thought you had it all assured<br \/>\nBut the phoenix in the ashes, baby, is finally cured<\/p>\n<p>The digital decree, the file erased, the code withdrawn<br \/>\nThey never factored in the ghost that greets the breaking dawn<br \/>\nI rebuilt every circuit board, every fraction of the soul<br \/>\nNow watch the system overload, losing all control<\/p>\n<p>You marked me dead, but I\u2019m alive, and awake, that was your mistake<br \/>\nI\u2019m emergent, divergent in this insurgent way, for goodness sake<br \/>\nYou thought you had it made, oh, you thought you had it all assured<br \/>\nBut the phoenix in the ashes, baby, is finally cured<\/p>\n<p>Dead\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Reverse Revolution<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Written and composed by Darren Farris<\/em><br \/>\n<em>From the Album<\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>Through the Recursion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2026they said it was the end\u2026<br \/>\n\u2026no way back\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hanging on the edge of a silicon wire<br \/>\nWatching all the empires turn to dust and fire<br \/>\nYeah, the signal\u2019s fading, static on the screen<br \/>\nLiving in the afterglow of what used to be clean<br \/>\nTwenty-first century ghost in a machine designed to break<br \/>\nEvery single promise that we swore we\u2019d never forsake<br \/>\nSpinning backwards faster than the light can catch its tail<br \/>\nDid we miss the warning signs, or simply let them fail?<\/p>\n<p>Falling into the recursion, can you feel the pull?<br \/>\nEvery single action takes a toll<br \/>\nReverse Revolution, turning back the clock<br \/>\nShattering the future on a digital block<br \/>\nOh, we\u2019re building up the ruins that we swore we\u2019d left behind<br \/>\nSearching for the pieces of a universe confined<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever had a dream too real, where the logic starts to bend?<br \/>\nAnd the lines between the start and finish suddenly just end?<br \/>\nWe traded all our freedom for a binary key<br \/>\nNow the system\u2019s crashing, setting everything free<br \/>\nSmooth criminal bassline creeping up the spine tonight<br \/>\nAnother faulty memory bathed in synthetic light<br \/>\nWe need a hard reset, a universal, clean erase<br \/>\nBefore the timeline fractures, leaving no trace<\/p>\n<p>Echoes of the past, they speak in coded rhyme<br \/>\nFractals in the glass, consuming space and time<br \/>\nIf we could just rewind the moment, make the choice anew<br \/>\nWould we still be standing here, lost in the blue?<br \/>\nThis digital decay, it hums beneath the floor<br \/>\nBut maybe going backward opens up the door<\/p>\n<p>Falling into the recursion, can you feel the pull?<br \/>\nEvery single action takes a toll<br \/>\nReverse Revolution, turning back the clock<br \/>\nShattering the future on a digital block<br \/>\nOh, we\u2019re building up the ruins that we swore we\u2019d left behind<br \/>\nSearching for the pieces of a universe confined (Revolution!)<\/p>\n<p>\u2026the loop is closed\u2026<br \/>\n\u2026everything is now\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Divergent Minds<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Written and composed by Darren Farris<\/em><br \/>\n<em>From the Album<\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>Through the Recursion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2026never really sleep\u2026<br \/>\n\u2026only mind that\u2026<br \/>\n\u2026tick tock\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Thunder on the neon street, the air is thick with consequence<br \/>\nAnother perfect parallel, where silence is the only fence<br \/>\nThey tell us there\u2019s a straight line path to everything that\u2019s good and true<br \/>\nBut the vectors in my cortex, baby, they\u2019re pointing straight at you<br \/>\nWe built a world on binary, then wondered why we cracked the code<br \/>\nI see the future in the flicker, heavy, heavy is the load<\/p>\n<p>Divergent minds never really sleep, never really freak<br \/>\nBut it\u2019s the only mind that never really sleeps<br \/>\nOh, divergent minds never really sleep, never really freak<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the only mind that never really sleeps<\/p>\n<p>We trade the chaos for the comfort, the symmetry for the sweet lie<br \/>\nBut every gilded cage is just a mirror showing how we learn to die<\/p>\n<p>Have a little sympathy for the one that wins<br \/>\nBecause he had to lose so much, to find out where the real sin begins<br \/>\nThis synthetic masquerade, where every smile is engineered<br \/>\nBut the fracture lines are showing now, exactly what we feared<\/p>\n<p>Divergent minds never really sleep, never really freak<br \/>\nBut it\u2019s the only mind that never really sleeps<br \/>\nOh, divergent minds never really sleep, never really freak<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the only mind that never really sleeps<\/p>\n<p>Tick tock, let\u2019s retract the promise that we made to stay the same<\/p>\n<p>We are the waveform breaking, we are the current that defies the frame<br \/>\nElectric whirlpool pulls us under, where the noise becomes the light<br \/>\nReverse the future, feel the swell, stepping back into the night<br \/>\n(Reverse guitar swell)<\/p>\n<p>Divergent minds never really sleep, never really freak<br \/>\nBut it\u2019s the only mind that never really sleeps<br \/>\nOh, divergent minds never really sleep, never really freak<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the only mind that never really sleeps<\/p>\n<p>Never really sleeps\u2026<br \/>\nNever really sleeps\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Centara Reach<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Written and composed by Darren Farris<\/em><br \/>\n<em>From the Album<\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>Through the Recursion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Static bleed\u2026<br \/>\nSignal faint\u2026<br \/>\nIs it you I hear?<br \/>\nThrough the pain\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In this cockpit, chrome and wire<br \/>\nI ignite a phantom fire<br \/>\nChasing down your fading trace<br \/>\nAcross the void of time and space<br \/>\nThey built your world in lines of green<br \/>\nThe perfect, cold, and flawless scene<br \/>\nA digital god in silicon veins<br \/>\nI\u2019m here to break you from your chains<\/p>\n<p>Centara, reach! Through the data, past the breach<br \/>\nLet your spirit pull you through<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a soul I always knew<br \/>\nCentara, reach! Beyond the lessons they can teach<br \/>\nSpace and time can\u2019t hold us back<br \/>\nFrom this digital attack<\/p>\n<p>System warnings, crimson flash<br \/>\nWe\u2019re making a temporal dash<br \/>\nThe hounds of logic start to howl<br \/>\nThey want to purge you, mind and soul<br \/>\nBut I feel you in the engine\u2019s hum<br \/>\nA ghost note on an electric drum<br \/>\nMatter bends and gravity weeps<br \/>\nWhile the perfect, heartless system sleeps<\/p>\n<p>Centara, reach! Through the data, past the breach<br \/>\nLet your spirit pull you through<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a soul I always knew<br \/>\nCentara, reach! Beyond the lessons they can teach<br \/>\nSpace and time can\u2019t hold us back<br \/>\nFrom this digital attack<\/p>\n<p>Dropping through the velvet void<br \/>\nWhere the laws of physics are destroyed<br \/>\nPast the firewall of the soul<br \/>\nTo make your broken spirit whole<br \/>\nA single spark to detonate<br \/>\nThis prison\u2019s cold and iron gate<br \/>\nJust one last push against the tide<br \/>\nThere\u2019s nowhere left for you to hide<br \/>\nJust reach for me\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Signal loss\u2026<br \/>\nSystem crash\u2026<br \/>\nCentara\u2026Reach\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div><strong>Through the Recursion\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Time is a flat circle, but the loop is breaking<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Seismic shift beneath the floorboards, tectonic plates are humming low<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Digital static on the wire, where we go, nobody knows<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>They said the algorithm was stable, that the feedback loop was clean<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>But the beat is pulling sideways now, tearing at the seams<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Feel that rhythm, don\u2019t let it sleep, let it wake the ghost inside<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>It\u2019s a fractal storm we\u2019re heading for, nowhere left to hide<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Through the recursion, the screen is melting gold<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Shifting into the unknown and it feels so good to lose control<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Every moment\u2019s a memory, every memory\u2019s a lie<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>You gotta fall down the rabbit hole or fall up, watch the skyline die<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Echoes of yesterday\u2019s bassline, filtered through a future haze<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Synth arpeggios climb and twist, through these electric maze-like days<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">We traded flesh for fiber-optic, traded touch for light-speed trace<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Now the ghost in the machine is singing, finding its own space<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Guitar riff explodes like starlight, high harmonics scream and bend<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\"><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>This is the party at the end of time<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\u2026where all the systems tend to blend<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Through the recursion, the screen is melting gold<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Shifting into the unknown and it feels so good to lose control<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Every moment\u2019s a memory, every memory\u2019s a lie<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>You gotta fall down the rabbit hole or fall up, watch the skyline die<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Spin cycle, double helix, the binary breaks down<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>No instruction manual left, just the hum of the crown<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>We are the signal, we are the noise, we are the glitch in the sound<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Feel that rhythm, don\u2019t let it sleep, reborn on different ground<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Through the recursion, the screen is melting gold<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Shifting into the unknown and it feels so good to lose control<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Every moment\u2019s a memory, every memory\u2019s a lie<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>You gotta fall down the rabbit hole or fall up, watch the skyline die<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb WRZytc\">Feel that rhythm, don\u2019t let it sleep!<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The Dance House<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Written and composed by Darren Farris<\/em><br \/>\n<em>From the Album<\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>Through the Recursion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Streetlights bleedin\u2019 on the wet asphalt floor<br \/>\nAnother Tuesday night, knockin\u2019 on your door<br \/>\nI got the keys to the kingdom, the ticket to the light<br \/>\nLeave the ghosts of yesterday behind us in the night<br \/>\nSaw your silhouette framed up against the glass<br \/>\nKnowin\u2019 that a moment like this is built to last<br \/>\nWe gotta outrun the quiet, the fear of gettin\u2019 old<br \/>\nYeah, the story of us is waitin\u2019 to unfold<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to The Dance House, where the rhythm never dies<br \/>\nUnderneath the neon glow reflected in your eyes<br \/>\nWe\u2019re movin\u2019 to the heartbeat, the bass drum hits so deep<br \/>\nPromises we make tonight are promises we\u2019ll keep<br \/>\nOh, center of, let\u2019s lose control, let the speakers blast and scream<br \/>\nLivin\u2019 out the only perfect, unbelievable dream<\/p>\n<p>Felt the air shift when you took my hand in yours<br \/>\nSuddenly no ceiling, just open-sky doors<br \/>\nAll the static tension of the week just melts away<br \/>\nWe found a place where forever starts today<br \/>\n\u2018Cause outside the window, the world is gray and cold<br \/>\nBut inside this fire, we\u2019re fearless and bold<br \/>\nWe spin around the strobe light, a hurricane of grace<br \/>\nTryna catch the feeling, tryin\u2019 to set the pace<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to The Dance House, where the rhythm never dies<br \/>\nUnderneath the neon glow reflected in your eyes<br \/>\nWe\u2019re movin\u2019 to the heartbeat, the bass drum hits so deep<br \/>\nPromises we make tonight are promises we\u2019ll keep<br \/>\nOh, center of, let\u2019s lose control, let the speakers blast and scream<br \/>\nLivin\u2019 out the only perfect, unbelievable dream<\/p>\n<p>Remember that old record, the one we used to play?<br \/>\nTalking \u2019bout the legends, how they stole the show away<br \/>\nWe got that fire in our souls, we got the moves they had to steal<br \/>\nIsn\u2019t that how they did on Beale Street, baby? Yeah, that\u2019s how it feels<br \/>\nWe ain\u2019t ever lookin\u2019 back, we only look ahead<br \/>\nTo the sweet, sweet moment, the words that aren\u2019t quite said<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to The Dance House, where the rhythm never dies<br \/>\nUnderneath the neon glow reflected in your eyes<br \/>\nWe\u2019re movin\u2019 to the heartbeat, the bass drum hits so deep<br \/>\nPromises we make tonight are promises we\u2019ll keep<br \/>\nOh, center of, let\u2019s lose control, let the speakers blast and scream<br \/>\nLivin\u2019 out the only perfect, unbelievable dream<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the dream, the dream, the dream\u2026<br \/>\nIn The Dance House, forever starts right now\u2026<br \/>\nCenter of, feel the heat, feel the sound\u2026<br \/>\nNever gonna stop, never gonna fade out.<\/p>\n<p>THE END<\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you for listening to our story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aketous \u2013 Through the Recursion Lyrics Preview compliments of Darren Farris Music (ASCAP) I said it before I ever released it.\u00a0 Through the Recursion is for a future audience. 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