Blueprint Hubris and the Spinning Round

american primitivism 2-step, griot reggae · 3:46

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Can we invent tomorrow with a vote and a plan?
Design the perfect future with a political hand?
The modernists believed we could blueprint our way
But hubris has a price that someone always must pay

[Chorus]
Future lost, future found
Three questions spinning round and round
Can we build it? Should we try?
What's the cost of reaching high?
Future lost, future found
In these questions truth is bound

[Verse 2]
What happens when our politics lives only ahead?
When present pain gets sacrificed for dreams inside our head?
The danger of futurity consuming all we are
Is forgetting those who suffer while we wish upon a star

[Chorus]
Future lost, future found
Three questions spinning round and round
Can we build it? Should we try?
What's the cost of reaching high?
Future lost, future found
In these questions truth is bound

[Bridge]
Xenofeminism takes the stage
Technology and gender's cage
Reimagining what could be
Liberation's technology
Not to master or control
But to free the human soul

[Verse 3]
So can political will create what's yet to come?
Or does this dream of mastery leave too much undone?
The balance that we're seeking lies between the old and new
Question everything we're building, make it just and make it true

[Chorus]
Future lost, future found
Three questions spinning round and round
Can we build it? Should we try?
What's the cost of reaching high?
Future lost, future found
In these questions truth is bound

[Outro]
Three questions guide our way
Through the future's complex maze
Plan with wisdom, not with pride
Keep the present by our side

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