Hourglass Architects
from Motion Canvas by Forging Reverie
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lyrics
Like grains of sand - We spiral and twist
Inside the hourglass - Our precious moments pass
Our lives, like strands - They form a double helix
As we entwine and clash - We’re born and die so fast
If we could slow - The sands of time
We wouldn’t have to measure moments - In the blinking of an eye
If we could know - Our future’s design
Do you think we’d even notice - As our lives passed us by?
We are the fools - Cheated out of our own lives
Procrastination is the culprit - Suicide is the crime
What good are dreams - That are born dead inside your mind?
If you were living in the moment - You would’ve brought them all to life
If we controlled - The hands of the dial
Could we manipulate our signals - Synchronize heart and mind?
Like a metronome - We’d calculate and reconcile
Our cadence and our silence - To quantize our lives
Let’s build a tool - With which to measure our lives
By our intention and our spirit - Redefine the flow of time
It’s our task - Our first, last and one attempt
To live in the past - The present, and the future tense
We are, at last
Consciousness - Manifest
Hourglass architects
It’s our prize - Our first, last and only chance
To give and compromise - Our worth with our expense
We comprise
The quantum - The infinite
Hourglass architects
If we let go - As our clocks unwind
Give to the infinite inertia - Incessant beating of time
Can we then grow - To recognize life’s
Rhythm, like the spinning of Earth - In birth and death, coincide?
These lives are lent - We never owned the time we spent
Squandering sleep like it’s on credit - Just to repay the debt in death
Although it seems - That we are helpless to expand
The walls we’ve built around the present - All is perception in the end
When we invent - A device inside which is kept
Every instant against infinite - We might reclaim the lives we’re meant
Inside the hourglass - Our precious moments pass
Our lives, like strands - They form a double helix
As we entwine and clash - We’re born and die so fast
If we could slow - The sands of time
We wouldn’t have to measure moments - In the blinking of an eye
If we could know - Our future’s design
Do you think we’d even notice - As our lives passed us by?
We are the fools - Cheated out of our own lives
Procrastination is the culprit - Suicide is the crime
What good are dreams - That are born dead inside your mind?
If you were living in the moment - You would’ve brought them all to life
If we controlled - The hands of the dial
Could we manipulate our signals - Synchronize heart and mind?
Like a metronome - We’d calculate and reconcile
Our cadence and our silence - To quantize our lives
Let’s build a tool - With which to measure our lives
By our intention and our spirit - Redefine the flow of time
It’s our task - Our first, last and one attempt
To live in the past - The present, and the future tense
We are, at last
Consciousness - Manifest
Hourglass architects
It’s our prize - Our first, last and only chance
To give and compromise - Our worth with our expense
We comprise
The quantum - The infinite
Hourglass architects
If we let go - As our clocks unwind
Give to the infinite inertia - Incessant beating of time
Can we then grow - To recognize life’s
Rhythm, like the spinning of Earth - In birth and death, coincide?
These lives are lent - We never owned the time we spent
Squandering sleep like it’s on credit - Just to repay the debt in death
Although it seems - That we are helpless to expand
The walls we’ve built around the present - All is perception in the end
When we invent - A device inside which is kept
Every instant against infinite - We might reclaim the lives we’re meant
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from Motion Canvas,
released October 30, 2012
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Forging Reverie New Hampshire
Forging Reverie, our passion project of eight years, unofficially crawled to a stop by early 2015 with a handful of
unfinished songs. As of yet, no tapes have been burned. : )
Where we’ve been…
Derek and Justin’s casual, guitar-gear podcast: youtube.com/@TheToneControl
Justin’s audio production studio: jaysongstudio.com
Tye’s visual design business (& someday new music): www.tyenewton.com
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