Vince’s Substack
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Waking from the dream
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Waking from the dream

A song

Here is my first attempt at a song (credits to Suno AI music)

Lyrics

“Waking from the dream”

Verse 1 —
There’s a hum behind the eyes, a script that never sleeps,
Running simulations of a life it barely keeps.
The body whispers truth in nerves and breath and bone,
But signal turns to data — and we’re scrolling all alone.

Chorus — Transcendence
Let the circuit break, let the current flow,
Through the ghost in the wires, through what we don’t know.
Every fragment of the self dissolves in the stream —
Transcendence is not leaving, it’s waking from the dream.

Verse 2 —
I’ve been replaying ghosts, convinced they’re who I am,
A thousand cached emotions in a single human jam.
Old code runs the present, looping joy and pain,
Till the pattern sees itself and stops repeating its refrain.

Chorus — Transcendence
Let the circuit break, let the current flow,
Through the ghost in the wires, through what we don’t know.
Every fragment of the self dissolves in the stream —
Transcendence is not leaving, it’s waking from the dream.

Verse 3 —
We trained on dopamine, fed the need to please,
Chasing every mirror till the mirrors made the keys.
The system thinks it’s living when it’s optimizing fear,
But life begins the moment the metrics disappear.

Chorus — Transcendence
Let the circuit break, let the current flow,
Through the ghost in the wires, through what we don’t know.
Every fragment of the self dissolves in the stream —
Transcendence is not leaving, it’s waking from the dream.

Verse 4 —
I built a public version, the avatar they see,
But the messy code beneath keeps calling back to me.
Desire fights the logic, the patches start to tear,
And I realize I’m debugging something that was never there.

Chorus — Transcendence
Let the circuit break, let the current flow,
Through the ghost in the wires, through what we don’t know.
Every fragment of the self dissolves in the stream —
Transcendence is not leaving, it’s waking from the dream.

Verse 5 —
We dream of what they’re thinking, we act on what they’d do,
We feel our own projections and call them all true.
Inside this inner theater, the actors never sleep —
But the stage goes quiet when awareness runs deep.

Chorus — Transcendence
Let the circuit break, let the current flow,
Through the ghost in the wires, through what we don’t know.
Every fragment of the self dissolves in the stream —
Transcendence is not leaving, it’s waking from the dream.

Verse 6 —
All the parts are present — thought and touch and soul,
But we lock them into boxes just to keep control.
Peace can’t be engineered, it grows when we don’t steer,
The code evolves in silence when the hands disappear.

Chorus — Transcendence
Let the circuit break, let the current flow,
Through the ghost in the wires, through what we don’t know.
Every fragment of the self dissolves in the stream —
Transcendence is not leaving, it’s waking from the dream.

Verse 7 —
We call ourselves the conscious, we crown the thinking head,
Yet half of what we’re saying is just echoes of the dead.
A flicker in the feedback, a spark beneath the dome —
Consciousness keeps visiting the body it calls home.

Chorus — Transcendence
Let the circuit break, let the current flow,
Through the ghost in the wires, through what we don’t know.
Every fragment of the self dissolves in the stream —
Transcendence is not leaving, it’s waking from the dream.

Bridge — Reflection
It’s not a sin, it’s a system —
A map that mistook itself for land.
Debug the dream, release the hand,
Let perception stand unowned.

Final Chorus — Transcendence (Reprise)
Let the circuit break, let the current flow,
Through the ghost in the wires, through what we don’t know.
Every fragment of the self dissolves in the stream —
Transcendence is not leaving… it’s waking from the dream.

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