Break Your Own

"These days, cynicism is obedience" Break Your Own Gray sky over a world turning green Brown land waking up, speckles in between Yellow, red, and blue where the flowers push through I'm out here running, feeling what is true Through my muscles, through my core The earth is pulling, saying "there is more" The universe is humming in my bones I never feel it sitting still at home Break your own, break your own We built these cages stone by stone Break your own, break your own A new world rises when we're done I don't know a thing about poetry But lyrics and the music — they speak to me A poetic nature underneath the sweat This is what my spirit won't forget If you cannot see the bonds between us all If you cannot trust the thread before it falls That's not a lecture, not a finger wag That's a call to do the deeper work we have Break your own, break your own We built these cages stone by stone Break your own, break your own A new world rises when we're done It's not society, it's not just you It's the conspiracy between the two A system made of all our little walls A collective cage that none of us recall But the system is emergent — don't you see? It's the sum of every boundary So to break the hold, to break the bind You start with yours, and I'll start mine Break your own, break your own We built these cages stone by stone Break your own, break your own A new world rises when we're done We're not building bridges, we're tearing them down We need more, not fewer, on this common ground I don't know what comes next, nobody does But I know it starts with us