Before time

English lyrics

[Intro - near-silent, breath in left/right] (L) Before time. (R) Before the word “before.” (C) What was time... before time? DOM... DOM... TIK... TOK... [Spoken I - close, cold] Am I before time? Or am I only asking from inside it? Maybe time had another name. Maybe it was Amin. “What time is it?” “Amin two-thirty.” Thirty minutes of Amin. Then nobody laughs because clocks haven’t been invented yet. (L) Impossible. (R) Is possible. (C) Impossible is possible. [Void] No melody. No answer. Just distance learning how to breathe. DOM... ...DOM... TIK— (no TOK) [Spoken II - drifting] I leave orbit without moving. Earth gets small. My name gets small. The question gets huge. What color is red? You say red. I say red. We point to the same thing. But what if your red is what I would call blue if I could borrow your eyes? (L) Same word. (R) Different sky. (C) Who would know? [Whisper Loop - circling] red / blue same / not same time / name mind / frame inside / outside orbit / gone [Rapid-Fire Cognitive Breach - dry, precise, no beat lift] Name it, frame it, tame it, claim it, see it, say it, save it, fake it. Clock says time because we taught it. Red says red because we bought it. Word on word on word on word, then the first thing goes unheard. If time needs a name to enter mind, what was there before the sign? If sanity is where the border stays, what am I when I see the border and keep walking anyway? Not broken. Not healed. Not high. Not low. Not happy. Not sad. Expanded. (L) Too far? (R) Farther. (C) Beyond madness. [Impact Vacuum] DOM. DOM. DOM. TIK... TIK... TIK... Where is TOK? [Spoken III - widest space] This is not madness. It is something beyond madness. I am out of orbit. I can still see the orbit. That is the strange part. Maybe impossible only means the map stopped early. (L) Impossible. (R) Is possible. (C) Here. [Return From Darkness] When someone comes back from darkness, they return like this. Not with answers. With different questions. Not with light. With eyes that stopped asking darkness to apologize. [Final Pre-Time] Before time... before red... before “me”... what was left? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. Maybe Amin was already late. DOM... TIK... [Silence] (C, whisper) What time is it? (L, almost gone) Before. (R, almost gone) Amin.