In the Beginning

In the beginning There was silence And no kindness And no shadows dancing In the beginning It was tragic And pitch black All until this one instance A low rumble humbled us Then someone struck a rock with a tree branch It sounded like way more than noise to us Like there's gotta be more than this And we felt different In the arrangement Lifted up, coerced Like participants That's me, that's us Willing participants, you see Like participants, you and me All just here and now And make 'em dial in All night long In the beginning No one could find us We had no myths No rudimentary instruments Then came the branch Then came the horns Then came the drums Then we all started counting to four It was like One, two, three, four, like One, two, three, four, like One, two, three, four, like And we felt different In the arrangement Lifted up, coerced Like participants, Do you see it now? Willing participants You see us? It's you and me, we Participants, you see It's what we're doing now playin the noise with a flicker, alright And we been waiting around Think they'll let us stay around a while? Tune in until we sound like we are... Well, it's better than the cave drawings I was making With all of the game you brought in There was blood on the floor and the walls Now it's not