**Swallowed by the Endless Now**

acid house boom bap, acoustic rock afro-jazz · 4:15

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Remember when we planned for years ahead
When history felt alive, not dead
But something shifted in our modern age
We're trapped inside a temporal cage

The clock keeps ticking but time stands still
Past and future bend to market will
Jameson saw it coming clear
The loss of depth we hold so dear

[Chorus]
We're living in the eternal now
No memory, no future somehow
The present swallows all we know
In capitalism's endless flow
Eternal present, eternal present
Time becomes our absent present

[Verse 2]
Late capitalism changed the game
Made every moment look the same
No grand narratives to guide our way
Just endless repetition day by day

The shopping mall becomes our shrine
Where past and future realign
Into a single, flattened space
Where history leaves not a trace

[Chorus]
We're living in the eternal now
No memory, no future somehow
The present swallows all we know
In capitalism's endless flow
Eternal present, eternal present
Time becomes our absent present

[Bridge]
Postmodern condition, Jameson's vision
Cultural logic cuts precision
Depth model fades to surface play
Yesterday feels like today

[Verse 3]
We scroll through feeds that never end
Past and future start to blend
The algorithm knows no time
Just profit margins, reason, rhyme

This temporal crisis runs so deep
We've lost the future that we keep
In fragments of a broken dream
Nothing's quite the way it seems

[Chorus]
We're living in the eternal now
No memory, no future somehow
The present swallows all we know
In capitalism's endless flow
Eternal present, eternal present
Time becomes our absent present

[Outro]
The future dimension slips away
In the perpetual today
Eternal present holds us tight
In capitalism's endless night

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