[Verse 1] Sarah stares at her laptop screen The startup's gone, the dream's not clean But on LinkedIn she starts to type "All companies face this prototype" She lifts her pain up to the sky Makes it general so she won't cry [Chorus] Abstraction addiction, pattern recognition Turn the personal into a universal mission Find the template, make it neat But your heart still skips a beat Abstraction addiction, running from the real When you generalize, you never have to feel [Verse 2] In the therapy room he shifts his weight "Everyone's parents communicate With disappointment, it's just the way All families function every day" The counselor leans forward slow "Tell me about your father though" [Chorus] Abstraction addiction, pattern recognition Turn the personal into a universal mission Find the template, make it neat But your heart still skips a beat Abstraction addiction, running from the real When you generalize, you never have to feel [Bridge] We're trained to see the bigger picture Find the class behind each instance But emotions need their particular space Your grief deserves its own resistance [Verse 3] The power of abstraction's true It builds the systems we walk through But when it comes to human pain The specific loss, the personal shame Don't elevate it to a rule Your feelings aren't a coding tool [Chorus] Abstraction addiction, pattern recognition Turn the personal into a universal mission Find the template, make it neat But your heart still skips a beat Abstraction addiction, running from the real When you generalize, you never have to feel [Outro] Sometimes the bug is just your bug Sometimes the hurt needs its own hug Not every feeling fits a class Let your particular moment pass
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