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Waking in the cycle, the same grey sky
A ghost in the temple, with a phantom eye
The Sixth-Degree Loop, a trap made of time
Every escape just another line…
They preach the great way, a path pure and stark
But their truth is a whisper in the gathering dark
This body they gave me, this borrowed breath
A prelude to silence, a rehearsal for death…

(Pre-Chorus)
The formations are shifting, the calculation's wrong…
I feel the loop breaking… I've been here too long.

(Chorus - Music swells with a distorted, syncopated phonk bass drop, but emotionally hollow like "Let Down")
Shatter the celestial chain! (Echoing, pained vocal)
This borrowed fate, I disavow!
In the static and the strain… (Music grinds and pulses)
I am my own dao now!
The puppet cuts the string, in the silent scream
A different kind of… herding…

(Verse 2)
The elders' eyes like polished stone
Weighing the flesh, claiming the bone
A harvest of souls, a refined crop
The sacred machine… has to stop.
I read the gaps in their sacred text
The power they hold… is what comes next.
Not in submission, but in the fracture wide…
Where a single, stubborn thought can hide.

(Pre-Chorus)
The gears are now grinding, the signal is strong…
The loop is now breaking… I’ve known this all along.

(Chorus - Heavier, more aggressive phonk elements, drums more chaotic)
Shatter the celestial chain!
This borrowed fate, I disavow!
In the static and the strain…
I am my own dao now!
The puppet cuts the string, in the blinding light
A different kind of… herding…

(Bridge - Sudden drop to near-ambience. Clean, distant guitar, MUREKA AI vocal processing glitchy and fragmented)
System error… in the divine…
Paradox blooming… in this mind of mine.
The cycle’s end… is not an exit door…
It’s the recognition… I’ve been here before…
And before…
And before…

(Outro - Phonk bass returns, slower, doomed, and triumphant at once. A wall of distorted, decaying sound)
Herding… the gods…
Herding… the void…
Herding… the choices…
I never… employed…
The loop… is a circle…
The circle… is mine…
To bend…
To break…
To…
Redefine.