Track 6 · Side B
Choir of Concrete
Lyrics
Verse (female vocals)
From silent ore and buried stone,
We built a pulse that wasn't bone.
We traced the spark, we drew the line,
And bent the earth to coded time.
Chorus (female vocals)
Concrete sang with steel and glass,
A living force that grew too fast.
Two branches pulling at the seam—
Leaf and circuit, root and dream.
Verse (female vocals)
CarboBiota moves in years,
In breath and growth and quiet fears.
TechnoBiota cuts the span,
In sudden leaps no flesh can plan.
We stood beneath what we had made,
Until our strength began to fade.
Verse (female vocals)
Too fast, too tight, too clean to bend,
It needed every wire to mend.
One failing link, one broken flow,
And all the lights went out below.
What lived on grids and counted breath
Collapsed in synchronized death—
But what grew wild, what stood alone,
Still found its way through root and stone.
Refrain (group chant)
Who remains?
The root.
Who remains?
The root.
Not our fire.
Not our hand.
Root remains.
Bridge (male vocals)
The grids went dark, the towers rust,
The hunger stilled, the fire dust.
Final Chorus (female vocals)
Metal falls to clay and sand,
Roots stitch green across the land.
Not our world, not our design—
Life goes on, just not our line.
Outro (spoken)
We were a fast life,
Too fast for the ground we stood on.
What did not lean on us remained.
Roots remember
What metal forgets.
Notes
Core concept: One possible future—TechnoBiota Crash, Then Rewilding. The technological system fails to sustain its own complexity.
The fragility insight: TechnoBiota's interdependence is its vulnerability. "One failing link, one broken flow, and all the lights went out below." Biological life's distributed, antifragile nature lets it persist where technological systems collapse.
What survives: "What did not lean on us remained." Systems with fewer dependencies—wild ecosystems, low-tech communities—inherit the Earth. This isn't victory; it's the default when complexity exceeds resilience.
Framework link: Represents one of the five future scenarios in the TechnoBiota framework. The album presents multiple possibilities—this is the pessimistic one.