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This is the only track on the mixtape to not come through the channel of writing to the suicide theme.
I could never identify a favourite song of my entire life - how unfair to compare across genre and across different periods of our lives.
But if it could. This would be it.
Like so much of the underground music that makes up my world, I cannot remember how I specifically came across this artist.
All I know is that in my 2nd marathon prep early 2011, an acoustic re-release of Chance's debut album Inkstains (aka Phatchance), ousted my definitive running album ... Daft Punk Alive '07. Yeah. Go figure.
My love affair with acoustic and semi-acoustic, deep, 'melodic', 'progressive' hip hop was consumated...
'Infinity' epitomises all that I love and I am thankful that Chance agreed to allow us to include his track.
It is a stunning song that asks some big questions about our world, about life, about death.
I think it is the perfect close for our mixtape.
I hope you agree.
Heidi xx
If you haven't seen the visual representation of this song... you must.
youtu.be/VV8Svlz2Xag
lyrics
All Life began as a blank canvas,
In a void where the math dances; in a figure eight;
On the borders of infinity, where divinity is simply fate,
And questions are answers;
All was born in that instant;
When an unresolved sum ran its course as an infant;
A bright light where the end of the tunnel,
Was the start of the road, but you blinked and you missed it;
Before time had a name, or life had a face;
When everybody shared that place;
Before all that we know was let loose from its chains,
Pandora’s box can’t be closed again;
Every particle of energy in me and you,
Love and hate, and every eye we see it through;
Every piece and part of me, every key and harmony;
Is woven from the start of things and singing this tune;
And there is no justice there is only life and death;
But if that’s so there is no substance, and all that we know is a lie at best;
But there is no justice there is only time and space,
And if that’s so there’s no control and all that we see with our eyes is fake;
Our lives pass in the blink of an eye,
Or the twinkle of one glint of one star in the sky,
We were born of dust and torn fragments,
Storm fronts and magmar our hearts and minds;
I don’t know if there’s a grand design,
Are we phantom dice, and god the gambling type?
Are we just one more stop for the hands of time?
Or here with a reason and man divine?
If it all boils down to the collision of atoms;
Can we act as if it matters that we black the skies?
If everything we do is just a stitch in the pattern,
Then choice is an illusion in the map of our lives; and
I don’t know if I can stand to try;
To make sense of life if I believe that’s right;
I see it all around me, infinity surrounds me,
What if I never found peace, what if I wasn't free to die
And there is no justice there is only life and death;
But if that’s so there is no substance, and all that we know is a lie at best;
But there is no justice there is only time and space,
And if that’s so there’s no control and all that we see with our eyes is fake;
Do you really even understand infinity?
It never ends it is all that you live and breathe;
Do you really even understand infinity?
It never ends it is all that you live and breathe;
Do you really even understand infinity?
It never ends it is all that you live and breathe;
Do you really even understand infinity?
It never ends, it never ends;
And there is no justice there is only life and death;
But if that’s so there is no substance, and all that we know is a lie at best;
But there is no justice there is only time and space,
And if that’s so there’s no control and all that we see with our eyes is fake;
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