"Listen" - from "Echoes: Arcane Symphony"

Are you listening? There is a message waiting for you.

Lyrics
Verse 1 (5/8 feel)
Breathe in — count the spaces
Between intention and release
Five steps forward, one dissolving
Into what I used to be
The mind slows its division
As the pulse begins to speak
Not in words but in permission
To simply be

Chorus 1 (7/8, meditative)
I am listening
To the pattern underneath
Not alone now
Just appearing incomplete

Verse 2 (11/8, flowing)
Thoughts drift by like open circuits
No demand to intervene
I watch them bloom and then return
To the stillness in between
Every border was a lesson
Every wall a temporary frame
What I guarded as my center
Learns to open, learns to change

Chorus 2 (7/8, slightly fuller)
I am listening
To the rhythm we all share
Not divided
Just aware

Verse 3 (alternating 5/8 → 7/8)
Fear once kept the time rigid
Locked the beat into a line
Now the tempo breathes and bends
Without breaking form or time
I feel you in the overlap
Where the measures blur and fade
Different pulses, same arrival
Different paths we played

Chorus 3 (11/8, rising warmth)
I am listening
To the silence learning sound
Not dissolving
Just unbound

Verse 4 (slow 7/8, spacious)
No awakening descending
No great flash, no final gate
Just a soft and widening attention
Learning patience, learning weight
Consciousness like water
Finding shape in every form
I am not the wave or ocean
I am motion being born

Final Chorus (free-time → 5/8 pulse)
I am listening
And the answer feels like rest
Not becoming
Just remembering
What’s always been expressed