BUILDING BLUEPRINT

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Palimpsest 2.0

  1. ///Hook \\\
  2. 0:44
  3. [.](Loop if beat ends.)
  4. Wrote it in pencil 'fore the thought was even placed
  5. the graphite ghost persists through every page thats been erased
  6. Every hole they dug became the stage theyd consecrate
  7. read the residue. the interest accrues with weight
  8.  
  9. ///Verse 1 \\\
  10. The craftsman kept the last good chisel in a tin
  11. the edge honed sharp enough to split a quip and grin
  12. from teeth too precise to begin on anything less genuine
  13. than what the stone concealed so half his discipline
  14. looked barren to the critics who conflate discipline
  15. dissolving with the drought, unaware the discipline
  16. of marble is its own a surface kin
  17. to silence one that gives itself to genuine
  18. patience only orion logic glancing in
  19. the wrong half of the dark, youll find nothing therein
  20. but tilt the patient neck and the myth begins again
  21. the belt, the sword, the hunter permanent within
  22. the winter sky, not given, but attended in
  23. the way that medicine attends, though genuine
  24. attendance isnt visible, arts discipline
  25. dressed as absence, so the work looked thin
  26. until the marble opened like a discipline
  27. of love expressing finally what love had kept within
  28. and what he left looks like the stone chose discipline
  29. but really its just love that wore its skin
  30.  
  31. ///Pre Hook \\\
  32. The moon dont argue with the tide
  33. it pulls. the coast decides.
  34. Most laws of nature dont require compliance.
  35. The ones that break become the finest science.
  36.  
  37. ///Hook \\\
  38. Wrote it in pencil 'fore the thought was even placed
  39. the graphite ghost persists through every page thats been erased
  40. Every hole they dug became the stage theyd consecrate
  41. read the residue. the interest accrues with weight
  42.  
  43. ///Verse 2 \\\
  44. The photograph lies honest by the frame of what it claimed
  45. the flash pressed out the afternoon, the shadow went unnamed
  46. the absence went unfiled and the committee then acclaimed
  47. the image as the record, signed and certified, inflamed
  48. with certainty whatever shadow filled the frame
  49. was reclassified as background and the background got reclaimed
  50. as context but the context was the wound that bled and maimed
  51. the particulars from record still the record stood, remained
  52. optics over organs, every decade, same
  53. the wright brothers bore the shame of dreamers who were tamed
  54. by gravity until the gravity was named
  55. in lift coefficient icarus got framed
  56. by ovid as the kid who overreached but blamed
  57. the wrong party, daedalus, who gamed
  58. the narrative built the maze stayed on earth, proclaimed
  59. himself the craftsman shipped a wing with no disclaimed
  60. liability inside no caution named
  61. or clause explained he silence in the blueprint maimed
  62. the son the aegean did the rest and bore his name
  63. a body of water with a body to the name
  64.  
  65. ///Bridge \\\
  66. Theres a word for a page thats been written
  67. scraped clean, and written again
  68. the ghost of the first hand bleeds through
  69. and warps what the second hand says
  70. call it history. call it inheritance.
  71. call it what the living have claimed
  72. from the residue of those before them
  73. who convinced them it was theirs to name
  74.  
  75. ///Verse 3 \\\
  76. Finished off the last of what was stored inside the fridge
  77. cold ambition, three day old resolve across the edge
  78. of every conversation where he'd promised to abridge
  79. the monologue but thought condensed along the ledge
  80. to something intricate as escher logic at the wedge
  81. between impossible and built the staircase hedged
  82. in on itself ascending nowhere and the privilege
  83. of that was the point some architecture is the bridge
  84. between two places that dont actually share a ridge
  85. he argued with the calendar the way youd dredge
  86. a silt thick river just to see what laid embedded
  87. at the bottom of the february pledge
  88. he lit the resolution with a match, the shredded
  89. promise pressed like flowers in the margin decorative, embedded
  90. evidence of april when you find it he was headed
  91. nowhere fast, which is to say exactly where hed threaded
  92. every road back to the room, the pen, the well worn bedded
  93. groove of the familiar where the most is said in
  94. what gets left the graphite on the page beneath the page
  95. the first draft of a self before the self gets staged
  96. before the flash erases what the afternoon had aged
  97. to something honest this is it the residue of rage
  98. distilled to patience, patience to the work, the work to age
  99. the age to archive, archive to the palimpsest of page
  100.  
  101. ///Outro, Hook Variation \\\
  102. So here it stands the palimpsest of all displaced
  103. original and borrowed, thoroughly worn and traced
  104. the ghost of every draft still bleeding through the face
  105. Find him in the friction where the graphite meets the page

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