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Alphabet Insomnia

The Rise — Success · 4:14 · Hip-hop

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WITHIN THE ALBUM

What if arriving raised new questions?

Success is the second perspective in the diptych The Rise. Suburban Mirage, Invisible, and Crystal Driveways change the setting without settling the questions of the first chapter. In this fiction, moving into a different position is not enough to know what you want to preserve.

Brother from Another, Bonfire Nights, and Constellation Chronicles open up images of connection and memory. The title Success does not announce the band’s commercial success: it names a theme in the story. Each listener can look for their own definition of arrival.

Begin with Suburban Mirage, then bring this chapter together with Struggle to let the two journeys speak to one another.

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Original lyrics

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Sleepless shadows silently serenading

Anxiety attacks at 4 AM again
Breakfast becomes bitter, can't comprehend
Counting sheep but they're climbing mountains
Dreams dissolve like disappearing fountains

Every emotion explodes exponentially
Fighting fears with philosophical density
Gravity gone, I'm floating through thoughts
Haunted by happiness that can't be bought

Insomnia's instruction manual incomplete
Jumping between realities, bitter and sweet
Knowledge knocks but I'm too tired to answer
Lost in labyrinths of midnight cancer
Memories multiply in the dark

Was it a cat I saw?
Level
Madam
Never odd or even

Tick-tock-tick-tock time won't slow
Drip-drop-drip-drop thoughts overflow
Buzz-hum-buzz-hum electricity
Click-clack-click-clack mental activity
Whoosh-bang-whoosh-bang brain explosion
Ping-pong-ping-pong thought erosion
Shush-whisper-shush-whisper quiet please
Ding-dong-ding-dong no mental peace

Numerology nights where I count backwards
From infinity to zero, time travels awkward
Pillows plotting against my peaceful rest
While ceiling fans spin tests
Blankets become barriers
Against thought carriers
Refrigerator humming lullabies to loneliness
Clock hands moving with surgical slowness
Windows witnessing my wakefulness
Streetlights standing like sentinels
Guarding the neighborhood's sleeping
While I'm here, consciousness keeping

Flibber-jab wakka-doom shing
Plurble-wox niminy-ping
Zorblet-quin framble-zing
Thoughts that have no meaning
But somehow keep streaming
Through neurons screaming
In tongues I'm dreaming

Was it a cat I saw?
Level
Madam
Never odd or even

Tick-tock-tick-tock time won't slow
Drip-drop-drip-drop thoughts overflow
Buzz-hum-buzz-hum electricity
Click-clack-click-clack mental activity
Whoosh-bang-whoosh-bang brain explosion
Ping-pong-ping-pong thought erosion
Shush-whisper-shush-whisper quiet please
Ding-dong-ding-dong no mental peace

Sleep equals rest minus overthinking
But my brain keeps computing and linking
Stress times anxiety equals exhaustion
Divided by coffee equals false caution
Dreams squared minus reality cubed
Leaves imagination completely looped
If X equals unknown and Y equals why
Then Z must be the sleep I can't buy

Purple sounds of silence screaming yellow
Tasting time like bitter-sweet jello
Rough textures of smooth conversations
Cold heat waves from warm frustrations

Bright darkness illuminating confusion
Clear fog creating mental fusion
Heavy lightness weighing on my chest
Awake dreams denying sleepy rest

Loud whispers shouting quiet storms
Square circles breaking linear norms
Sweet sourness of midnight clarity
Transparent opacity of thought rarity

Frozen fire melting solid rain
Numb sensitivity driving me insane
Silent music playing visible songs
About where sleepless consciousness belongs

Morning backwards into night
Alarm clocks silent in the light
Coffee cold, dreams still burning
Alphabet soup still turning

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