Round and Round, the River Red

piano, classical, rap · 3:36

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Two rooms downstairs, but they don't share the load
One's built for distance, one's built for the road right next door
Right side breathes easy, a short little cruise to the lungs
Left side's the engine that answers to everyone

Every finger, every toe, every muscle that moves
Every thought in your skull that your left side proves
It's pushing red rivers through highways unseen
Against the resistance of the whole machine

[Chorus]
Left is the heavyweight, built like a fortress wall
Three bricks thick where the right side's got one, that's all
High pressure hero, sending blood head to toe
Thick wall, strong wall — that's the muscle you should know
Left side lifts the whole wide map
Right side's just a lung-length lap

[Verse 2]
Picture the right chamber, thin as a whisper, light
Just a gentle nudge to the lungs and out of sight
Low pressure, easy breeze, a hallway, not a hill
But the left one's a mountain climber, testing its will

It's got to reach the scalp and the sole of your feet
Push through a thousand miles of arterial street
So the body built it thicker, layer on layer of might
Muscle stacked on muscle to win that uphill fight

[Chorus]
Left is the heavyweight, built like a fortress wall
Three bricks thick where the right side's got one, that's all
High pressure hero, sending blood head to toe
Thick wall, strong wall — that's the muscle you should know
Left side lifts the whole wide map
Right side's just a lung-length lap

[Bridge]
Feel the squeeze, feel the surge, feel the pressure climb
Left ventricle keeping the whole body in time
Not a rival, just a partner running different lanes
One for the lungs, one for the far-flung terrains
Thicker walls don't mean the right side's small
It just doesn't need to conquer them all

[Verse 3]
So when you feel your pulse knock against your chest
That's the left side working, giving its very best
Three times the thickness, built to take the strain
Pumping past your shoulders, down through vein after vein
From your scalp to your ankle, it's covering ground
That's why the left wall's the thickest one found

[Chorus]
Left is the heavyweight, built like a fortress wall
Three bricks thick where the right side's got one, that's all
High pressure hero, sending blood head to toe
Thick wall, strong wall — that's the muscle you should know
Left side lifts the whole wide map
Right side's just a lung-length lap

[Outro]
Thick wall, big job, pushing far and wide
Left side's the reason blood reaches every side
Head to toe, head to toe, that's the story told
Left side strong, left side bold

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