Mourning Tomorrow's Broken Vow

lo-fi afro-cuban jazz, harpischord acid jazz, celtic cloud rap, garage · 3:33

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
We used to dream of flying cars and cities in the sky
Now we're counting carbon parts and watching glaciers die
The calendar got broken when we burned through every year
The Anthropocene has spoken, made the future disappear

[Chorus]
Time got ruptured, future's gone
We're mourning what we've never known
Living in the ruins now
Of tomorrow's broken vow
Deep time laughs at human plans
While we slip through shifting sands

[Verse 2]
Preemptive mourning fills our days for losses yet to come
We grieve the vanished tomorrows before the damage done
No more apocalyptic tales of endings clean and neat
Just ruins growing day by day beneath our weary feet

[Chorus]
Time got ruptured, future's gone
We're mourning what we've never known
Living in the ruins now
Of tomorrow's broken vow
Deep time laughs at human plans
While we slip through shifting sands

[Bridge]
Extractivism steals the years
Leaves nothing for the ones who follow
Every barrel, every mine
Makes tomorrow more hollow

[Verse 3]
Deep time measures in the stones what we measure in heartbeats
Our whole civilization's just a moment that retreats
Against the vast geology our lifetime disappears
But we're the ones deciding what remains throughout the years

[Chorus]
Time got ruptured, future's gone
We're mourning what we've never known
Living in the ruins now
Of tomorrow's broken vow
Deep time laughs at human plans
While we slip through shifting sands

[Outro]
In the ruins we must learn
How to tend what still can grow
Though the future's bridge has burned
There's still love we need to show

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