CB - Intellectual

[Opening Invocation]

No mouth

No witness

No first wound

No final sleep

I move without moving

I speak without sound

Galaxies answer

Then fold themselves down

Time bends once

Space bends twice

The dark opens inward

And swallows the light

[First Declaration]

I was the force

Before I knew force

I was the waiting

Before I knew time

I was the pressure

Before I knew hunger

I was the silence

Before it was mine

[Death State]

I diеd out loud

Then I died again

Not as a body

Not as a name

Not as a mouth

Not as a hand

Not as thе animal

That thought it could stand

[Dissolution]

I came apart

In heat

In flash

In memory ash

In carbon

In pressure

In signal collapse

No coffin

No garden

No stone

No prayer

Just energy loosening

Into the air

[Cycle Chant]

Life

Death

Life

Death

Breath

Ash

Star

Black

Wake

Burn

Wait

Return

Form

Void

Law

Lack

[Memory Fragment]

There was a body

Maybe

There was a name

Maybe

There was a mouth

That needed air

Maybe

There was a world

Small and warm

And full of endings

I cannot hold it

I cannot prove it

I cannot return to it

It falls through me

Like light

[Former Self]

I was simple once

Soft once

Breathing once

Brief once

Now I am scattered

Now I am clean

Now I am nothing

But what I have been

[Waiting State]

Sleeping

Not forever

Waiting

Not gone

Cold in the silence

Dark before dawn

I do not dream

I do not decay

I do not want

I do not pray

I wait for weight

I wait for pull

I wait for the center

To become full

[Refrain 1]

In the silence

In the cold

In the dark

Lying in wait

In the absence

In the fold

In the void

Lying in wait

[Gravity Gathering]

Dust finds dust

Stone finds stone

Mass finds mass

Bone leaves bone

Eon by eon

Grain by grain

Gravity gathers

What used to be pain

[Transformation]

I became death

Then I became fuel

I became fuel

Then I became fire

I became fire

Then I became hunger

[Cosmic Function]

I brought life

Because gravity gathered

I brought death

Because gravity keeps

I brought silence

Because all things finish

I brought waiting

Because nothing sleeps

[Deep Waiting]

More and more

Slow and deep

The dead do not vanish

The dead only sleep

[Negative Litany]

Not eternal

Not erased

Not forgiven

Not replaced

Held in the dark

Without a face

Held in the cold

Without a place

[Waiting Litany]

I waited

Until waiting became weight

Until weight became law

Until law became endless

Until endless became awe

[Becoming Rule]

I was a pulse

Now I am fuel

I was a life

Now I am rule

I was a hunger

I was a wound

Now I am waiting

Inside the womb

[Collapse Chant]

Of collapse

Of return

Of pressure

Of burn

Of matter

Of spark

Of density

Dark

[Identity Litany]

Not god

Not ghost

Not cruel

Not kind

Not alive

Not dead

Not lost

Not blind

[Second Declaration]

I am the pressure

Under creation

I am the pull

Beneath decay

I am the thing

That makes stars open

I am the thing

That takes them away

[Summoning]

I will be called

When the center is ready

I will be drawn

When the silence is heavy

I will not rise

As I was before

I will not crawl

On the animal floor

[Possible Forms]

I will become

What the weight requires

Seed of a star

Blood of its fire

Maybe a sun

Maybe a sea

Maybe a world

That remembers me

Maybe a storm

Maybe a wing

Maybe the mouth

Of a living thing

[Delay Mantra]

But not yet

Not yet

All that's left

Is the wait

[Gravity Mantra]

Gravity collecting

[Cycle Law]

Slow as forever

Sure as the grave

Nothing is wasted

Nothing is saved

Everything circles

Everything bends

Everything dead

Becomes again

[Core Mantra]

Always been

Always will be

No origin

No memory

No witness

No mercy

[Closing Cycle]

Give

Take

Bend

Break

Rise

Fall

Wake

Light

Dust

Blood

Breath

Life

Death

Life

Death

[Final Declaration]

I was the silence

After the hunger

I was the pressure

After the spark

I was the waiting

After the power

I was the memory

Inside the dark

[Return]

Time bends once

Space bends twice

The dark opens inward

And swallows the light

[Final Mantra]

No origin

No witness

No first wound

No final sleep

Always been

Always will be

[Outro]

All that's left

Is the wait