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[Intro 🔥][Energy: Mid] (guitar riff enters — steady, metronomic, like footfalls) (drums locked to a running pace — deliberate, not frantic) (trumpet enters like a drill sergeant calling cadence) (the sound of a body that doesn't want to be here) (doing it anyway) [Verse 1 🔥][Energy: Mid] (deep vocal — strained, honest, present tense) I don't like this Never have Probably Never will Legs don't want to Brain says go Body files Its formal Objection Used to walk With a cane Used to think This was gone Running was A closed door Nailed shut From the inside [Pre-Chorus 🔥][Energy: Build] (drums tighten — trumpet low, insistent) But I didn't want To be crippled That's the whole Motivation Right there Not love of running Not the runner's high Not the finish line I just Didn't want The cane To win [Chorus 🔥][Energy: Explosive] (riff HITS — trumpet driving cadence — both feet off the ground) Keep running Just make it To that tree Keep running You can rest After the bend Keep running Thirty seconds That's all Just thirty seconds More Keep running The moms With the strollers Already passed you Keep running Both feet In the air That's All This Is Keep running [Verse 2 🔥][Energy: Mid-High] (relentless — the riff never lets up) Started in a crouch Knees bent Thighs burning Elliptical On pavement Dorky as it looked Didn't care Body wouldn't run So I negotiated Gave the knees A bypass Made the thighs Take the punishment Just kept going More upright Degree By degree Until one day Both feet Left the ground [Pre-Chorus 🔥][Energy: Build] (trumpet rises — insistent, cadence-like) Not fast Not pretty Not impressive To anyone Watching But the giraffe Learned To run And nobody Gets to define What that Looks like But me [Chorus 🔥][Energy: Explosive] Keep running Just make it To that tree Keep running You can rest After the bend Keep running Thirty seconds That's all Just thirty seconds More Keep running The moms With the strollers Already passed you Keep running Both feet In the air That's All This Is Keep running [Bridge 😭][Energy: Low] (everything drops — single guitar note, footfall rhythm in the kick drum only) (close vocal — breathing hard, almost spoken) My legs told me no My body said There will be pain If you do this And it remembered Every step That hurt Every morning I reached For the cane Before I reached For the floor (pause — kick drum steady like a heartbeat) The body Doesn't forget But the body Can be Overruled (quiet — almost to himself) Just That Tree [Bridge 🔥][Energy: Explosive] (full band CRASHES — trumpet blazing cadence, riff locked and driving) So I crouch walked Like an idiot On a public street And I didn't care Because the cane Was not Going to win And I got A little more upright And a little more upright And one day Both feet Left the ground Slow as anything Ridiculous Magnificent Both feet Off the ground And I said Keep running [Final Chorus 🔥🔥][Energy: Explosive] (guitars doubled — trumpet full military cadence — driving relentless) Keep running Past the tree Keep running Around the bend Keep running Thirty more Just thirty more Seconds Keep running The stroller moms Can have their pace Keep running This is mine Keep running Both feet In the air Every step A choice Every stride A door The cane Cannot Open Keep running Keep running Keep running I'm Running [Outro 🔥][Energy: Mid][Abrupt End] (riff locked — footfall rhythm holds) (trumpet — one sharp cadence call) (drums — running pace to single final hit) Keep Running