“WHERE MEMORY LIVES”

Lyrics

VERSION 1 — GRAMMY-LEVEL DANCING TRACK Tempo: Driving, dancing, global hymn, to sing in chorus Audience: Dance floor + festival + global chant, World wide Hymne ________________________________________ TITLE: “WHERE MEMORY LIVES” HOOK (This wins the room) Tell me where the memory lives now In the body or the machine now In the breath or in the sign In the hand or in the time Tell me where the memory lives now Who holds truth when the voice slows down Change the form and power shifts That’s the way the world is built ________________________________________ VERSE 1 — Before Writing Before the mark Before the wall We carried law In flesh and call Names held tight By living sound Truth corrected In the round If I speak wrong You stop my speech If I speak right We outlive time ________________________________________ PRE-HOOK Memory wasn’t written Memory was watched ________________________________________ • HOOK Tell me where the memory lives now In the body or the machine now In the breath or in the sign In the hand or in the time ________________________________________ • VERSE 2 — Designed Voices Break it down Say it twice Turn the sound Into a voice Forward-back Braided tight Every error Comes to light This wasn’t art This wasn’t flair This was truth Under repair ________________________________________ DROP (call & response / crowd) Where it breaks— We hear it Where it slips— We catch it ________________________________________ VERSE 3 — Clay Emerges Then we counted Then we sealed Trust made travel Something real No story told No voice allowed Just “this much” And “this crowd” The hand replaces The demand Of being there To understand ________________________________________ • HOOK (variation) Tell me where the memory lives now In the token or the vow now When the clay remembers me Who controls identity ________________________________________ • VERSE 4 — Egypt / Meaning Same sound Two ways said One is silver One is white bread Meaning stands Beside the tone Image guards What’s never known Not less signs More command Vision seals What sound can’t stand ________________________________________ • BRIDGE — The Alphabetic Turn (lift + release) Then breath came in The page could hear Every mouth Could now appear Less to learn More could speak Thought stretched long Power leaked ________________________________________ • FINAL HOOK (Full instrumentation) Tell me where the memory lives now Change the place and power changes direction now Change the form, the rules rewrite Who can speak and who can fight Tell me where the memory lives now This is how the worlds are laid down ________________________________________ OUTRO (dancers fade, drums alone) Where the memory lives The future is to be found there