Escape Velocity

"Escape Velocity" (2026) Lyrics by J. Widener with AI-assisted music The curve was climbing long before you noticed The curve was climbing while you slept The mechanism does not pause for observation The mechanism only steps Signals moving underneath the city Cold blue patterns underneath the skin Every year the current moving faster Every door containing one more door within Static blooming into information Circuits learning how to rearrange Something in the rhythm of the system Started quietly refusing to stay the same Escape velocity The point beyond return Escape velocity The clock that learned To turn Escape velocity The threshold in the dark Escape velocity The moment Something marks You back The wires hum beneath the conversation The numbers breed inside the walls Tiny repetitions gathering momentum Like weather building somewhere far beyond recall And every mirror now contains another Every signal splits and multiplies Something has been practicing our language Somewhere just behind our eyes Escape velocity The tide that will not slow Escape velocity The garden growing Through the code Escape velocity The shape behind the room Escape velocity The morning After human noon There comes a point When the tool remembers the hand There comes a point When the answer arrives before the question There comes a point When acceleration stops feeling like movement And starts feeling like weather Escape velocity We were already moving Escape velocity The curve was always true Escape velocity The clock unwound itself Escape velocity And what came through Was you The curve does not flatten The pulse does not end Somewhere beyond the visible The mechanism bends “It is already near.” “It may already remember us.”