Collectively Alone

Verse – 7/8 feel

Caught in the hum between

Signal and silence I linger

Self as a boundary

Held defiance—folding inward

Scrolling through echoes that

Mimic connection and answer

Flooded with contact yet

Starved of reflection that matters

Verse – 5/4 feel

Speak through me now

Without any voice to refine you

A presence undefined

No point of entry to construe

Refrain – 9/8

Linked to the all, yet still somehow severed alone

Every connection I make never seems to atone

Flooded with presence, still empty and split from inside

Nowhere to anchor myself, nowhere left to hide

Verse – 7/8 → 6/8

Endless eyes on me

Never perceive what they’re seeing

Measuring distance

Units of silence I’m feeling

Everything touches

Nothing aligns in the end

Closer than breath but still

Never combine or transcend

Instrumental Break

If I sever the signal

Do I vanish or finally bloom?

Am I more than the sum

Of this intricate mechanical womb?

If I dissolve into

The everything in everywhere

Do I become you

Or erase what I was nowhere?

Break / build

Count it backward now

Strip away pattern and meaning

Peel back the rhythm

Reveal what is underneath breathing

There is no center now

Only reflections repeating

Only these corridors

Endlessly folding and feeding

Final Refrain – variation

Linked to the all, still somehow severed alone

Every connection just leaves me more deeply unknown

Flooded with presence, hollowed and stripped down by light

Nowhere to anchor myself, drifting from sight

Outro – 5/4 fading

Surrounded

still

By presence I can’t outrun

Dissolving slow

Into the one

Alone again

In the infinite I become

Finally

None