[Verse 1: NAT]

A mind pinnacle, my climb subliminal

Limits aligned to the line I'm living on

Two-five parallel confined and standing still

Stay until I get wise to time will tell

An island hop became asylum stop

No direction, regressions like a wild top

Spinning, control giving in and

Inundated with frustrated misgivings

[Verse 2: Chen Qilin]

The haze filling holes in my cerebral vortex

Contorting my composure, cramping the bones in my neck

I’ve been told I’m always staring at the back of my head

I’ve gotten nowhere alone, maybe I’m better off led

Into the rigid pyramid, a company of compartments

Measuring success by the size of my apartment

Nevertheless I’d be left with lesser than best

Oppressing my needs stuck in a state of arrest

[Verse 3: Jay Zhidao]

I'm living, I'm grateful, I got food on my plate

I guess I’m getting by, I'm doing good but not great

Some kids sit wishing for a pot to piss in

And here I am bitching caught in a knot position

I got what I need, but if I ask for more, is that greed?

Is this all that’s left in store for this seed?

To be or not to be? Is that really the question?

Or to be or be more? the next step in the progression?

Should I escape the box that I’m pressed in? a paralyzing oppression

This incessant obsession with impressing

Caught up with what I’m dressed in, invested in the present

Development arrested, avoiding pressing questions like

Who am I? who am I trying to satisfy?

What’s the purpose? is it worth it? why do I try?

Is it do or die? what am I meant to achieve?

It's a matter of time and what mind can conceive

[Verse 4: Chen Qilin]

I’m barely capable, my unshakable grief

Is a chain around my neck with no release for relief

Inner peace is long gone from my venomous vernacular

The voices in my head shout “you aren’t the act you were”

So back onto the stage, with no master for this puppet

With no strings attached, I’m sweating buckets so fuck it

Internal struggles eternal, I push back with the force

Do or do not, I got no other recourse

[Verse 5: NAT]

It’s been awhile since I’ve been focused on revival

My versatile reprisal is a constant trial

Like my idols I got ideals but I’m idle

My ideas are confiscated by fears and denial

And though I know it I let it spiral

I put oceans between me and what is vital, survival

The way back to the top of the game

The path’s the same terrain that I left in flames

[Verse 6: CFB Flobare]

I got a devil on my shoulder pouring honey in my ear

Saying to burn my life away ‘til I fade, disappear

Cloaked in fear, maintain sane projection

Dogs waiting to devour another victim of natural selection

If only the fittest survive

Then quick the demise of those who aren’t fit to arise

I picture the prize, where the limit’s the skies

Better fix and revise, devise lines to baptize

Whether antagonised by the dreams I’m not fulfilling

Or the tormented sense I’m intent on concealing

When it feels like there’s always all to lose

Needs and wants are easy to confuse

And abuse ‘til perspectives subjectively wrecked

An effect to connect with the years of neglect

A respect I collect for those with self control

Always thought I'd know better by the time I got this old

[Outro: CFB Flobare]

I’m tired of second guessing

Tired of inhibiting progression while my time is ever pressing

Tired of investing all my effort when obsessed with the irrelevant

I’m contesting with myself a quest to rest within my element