Five Steps to Fall - Intellectual

Step in misfit rhythm got me locked in a spin

Every bar that I’m in feel off when I begin

Count wrong bounce lost never land where I’m tossed

Every tick of the clock come twisted and crossed

I align then I slip every line starts to drift

Like I’m chasing a pulse that won’t ever sit

Break time reshape what I make in my mind

But the grid don’t hold it just fractures in time

Five steps five breaths feel it press on my chest

Every second I stretch never gives me a rest

I adapt I attack try to map where I’m at

But the map overlaps and it fades into black

If I fall out of time

Will I fade in the sound

If I lose every line

Will I finally come down

Take me out of the rhythm tonight

I don’t care if it’s wrong or it’s right

If I break every rule just to feel something real

Let the silence decide what I hide

Take me out of the rhythm I know

Let it pull me wherever I go

If I lose who I am in the sound of it all

Maybe then I’ll finally let go

Every second that I measure never settles where I set it

Try to center every pattern but it bends before I get it

Count it once count it twice still I’m missing every line

Like the rhythm got a mind and it’s rewriting all of mine

I compress then expand every plan out of hand

Try to land on the beat but I don’t understand

Every step that I take get delayed or displaced

Like I’m chasing a version of a moment I can’t trace

Sync lost drift deep feel it creep in my sleep

Every thought off beat every promise I keep

Start to break start to bend every rule starts to end

Now the structure collapsing like it never was a friend

If I fight it I fall if I follow I stall

If I silence it all do I hear anything at all

Now I’m done tryna map what was never aligned

I let go of the count now I’m losing my mind

I tried to follow every line

But every line just pulled me under

I tried to live inside the time

But time just tore me into numbers

If I let it all unwind

Will I finally feel it slow

If I stop the counting now

Will I finally let it go

Five four three

Count it out

One two three four five

Miss the step

Out of time

I count but it don’t align

I breathe but I can’t define

Shift the beat

Let it slip

Break the grid

Lose your grip

One two three four five

I tried to live inside the line

But the line started living inside my mind

No more counting

No more sound

Tear it down