Rhythm Becoming

Lyrics

🌍 THE MEMORY FIELD (ROAD → RHYTHM → REMEMBRANCE) Before-time align-the-mind with multisyllabic-rhyme, rhythm don already pulse for ancestral-prime. Before-tone find-sound, drum don extend memory-ground. Before-fire learn-spark, empire don leave warning-mark. Before-colonial-tongue deny wetin e do, civilization don remember: with-GOD we-no-surrender-true. Chain no fit kill wetin spirit preserve. Time no fit steal wetin memory deserve. Dem bend the branch, but dem no fit curve the ancestral-signal wey continue-to-serve. Lost-turn-found. Round-turn-round. Round-no-break. Afro-Juju-build-town. Beat-turn-street. Street-turn-code. Code-turn-road. Road-carry-load. Node-turn-mode of-the-living-GOD. Hope-carrying. Pressure-burying. Future-ferrying. Spirit-marrying. See-the-scroll. Feel-the-roll. Claim-the-soul. Become-the-whole. --- 🏺 ANCESTOR INVOCATION STACK ANCESTOR ECHO: We were rhythm before border-line. We were wisdom before clock-and-time. We were breathing before written-sign. We were drumming before empire-design. We crossed-water. We crossed-weather. We crossed-together. We crossed-forever. Iron-surround-us. Ocean-divide-us. Memory-guide-us. Spirit-provide-us. We carried drum inside silence. We carried names inside violence. We carried hope inside defiance. We carried life through every crisis. We carried rhythm through every distance. We carried truth through every resistance. CHOIR: Guide-us! Hide-us! Teach-us! Lead-us! Remember-us! Restore-us! Center-us! Awaken-us! --- 🔥 PRE-CHORUS — THE BECOMING EQUATION We are becoming. We are remembering. Echo-of-the-drum wey never-stop-trembling. Carry-us. Guide-us. Through-sound we assembling. We no dey lost. We no dey broken. We be the code wey the drum don spoken. Memory-loading. Signal-unfolding. Future-decoding. Destiny-holding. --- 🎶 THE -ILY CONTINUUM CHANT Groovily-steering-me. Mightily-tracking-me. Steadily-building-me. Weightily-backing-me. Worthily-proving-me. Wittily-moving-me. Speedily-pacing-me. Destiny-chasing-me. Gradually-unlocking-me. Steadily-rocking-me. Holily-schooling-me. Happily-styling-me. Coolingly-freezing-me. Slowly-refining-me. Perfectly-earning-me. Heartily-shaping-me. Lightly-awakening-me. Future-is-naming-me. Quietly-loading-me. Memory-holding-me. Gracefully-locking-me. Ancestors-docking-me. Intentionally-loving-me. Potentially-ferrying-me. Spiritually-guiding-me. Verbally-reminding-me. Mentally-bursting-me. Ancestrally-nursing-me. Confidentially-freeing-me. Divinely-seeing-me. Sacramentally-leading-me. Eternally-reading-me. Beauty-ever-glowing. Frequency-ever-flowing. Memory-ever-growing. Signal-ever-showing. History-singing-me. Energy-spinning-me. Future-completing-me. Civilization-reading-me. Constitution-writing-me. People-reciting-me. City-believing-me. Memory-living-me. --- 🎺 CHORUS — FULL RECLAMATION We are becoming. We are remembering. Every broken sound still worth redeeming. Street-turn-scripture. Silence-turn-meaning. We be the signal still endlessly-streaming. No beginning. No ending. Only returning. Fire in the drum still quietly-burning. Through every collapse we still learning. That the rhythm-of-life never-stop-turning. CHOIR: LOCK-ME! FREE-ME! NAME-ME! SEE-ME! HOLD-ME! GUIDE-ME! TEACH-ME! FREE-ME! ANCESTOR ECHO: We carried the rhythm before rhythm carried a name. We carried the memory before memory became flame. We carried the future before future entered frame. --- 🦅 CONTINUUM DECREE From-Amalgamation to-Reactivation. From-Separation to-Restoration. From-Colonization to-Reclamation. From-Fragmentation to-Continuation. JiNG-&-BiNG-remembering. Afro-Juju-recentering. Black-Rhythm-reentering. Soulful-Blues-rerendering. Signal-no-dey-die. Memory-no-dey-dry. Ancestors-no-dey-lie. Rhythm-still-dey-fly. Drum-still-dey-call. Spirit-still-dey-haul. Culture-still-stand-tall. Future-still-involve-all. AFRO-JUJU-CONTINUES. THE-CHAIN-NEVER-BREAKS. IT-ONLY-CHANGES-SHAPE. AND-RETURNS-AS-RHYTHM.