[Intro]
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
[Bridge]
Unaware (I’m already there)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
[Bridge]
Unaware (I’m already there)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Outro]
Who’s to blame
(From losing the game)
The need for greed
(To “succeed”)
While the children bleed
(It’s a shame)
… in deed
(Indeed)
ABOUT THE SONG
“Recognizing adult responsibility in driving this crisis may be uncomfortable. Yet acknowledging that responsibility may be the first step toward restoring both ecological stability and psychological resilience.”
Widespread Distress and Solastalgia in Youth
A defining feature of this crisis is the phenomenon of solastalgia — often described as “homesickness while still at home.”
Unlike eco-anxiety, which is anticipatory fear about future environmental collapse, solastalgia arises when one’s immediate home environment is visibly degraded. It is the distress of watching familiar landscapes burn, flood, dry, or decay.
Approximately 50% of mental health burden appears to stem from direct trauma exposure. The remaining burden relates to agency — or lack thereof.
Children and adolescents possess the cognitive capacity to understand the existential dimensions of climate destabilization. Their distress is amplified not by ignorance, but by insight. What compounds the trauma is the recognition that decision-making power rests largely with adults whose responses are often perceived as insufficient, dismissive, or delayed.
The psychological strain thus reflects both trauma and moral injury.
Recognizing adult responsibility in driving this crisis is essential for our children.
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Recent observational evidence from the Arctic–North Atlantic system indicates that climate change is not proceeding linearly but is accelerating through interacting feedback mechanisms. Arctic amplification has intensified beyond earlier projections, coinciding with destabilization of large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, increased Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss, nonlinear cryospheric events, and measurable geophysical responses such as rapid isostatic rebound. This paper synthesizes multi-decadal satellite, atmospheric, oceanographic, and cryospheric observations through early 2026, arguing that the collapse of doubling times across key indicators—Arctic temperature anomalies, sea-ice loss, ice mass balance, and circulation variability—confirms a regime shift toward accelerated climate disruption.
Trilogy Liner Notes
North Flew South · South Pushed North · The Loop Closed
This trilogy is grounded in the framework of nonlinear climate acceleration — the growing body of evidence that climate change is not unfolding as a smooth, gradual curve, but as a system increasingly defined by thresholds, feedback loops, and abrupt state shifts.
The songs trace a progression.
1. North Flew South
The first movement focuses on Arctic amplification and atmospheric destabilization. As polar regions warm at roughly four to ten times the global average, the temperature gradient between the Arctic and mid-latitudes weakens. This alters jet stream behavior, amplifies waviness, and increases the persistence of extreme weather patterns. What once appeared stable begins to oscillate. Circulation destabilizes. “North flew south” becomes both metaphor and mechanism: a climate system losing its historical boundaries.
2. South Pushed North
The second movement examines nonlinear forcing. Warming is no longer just additive; it becomes multiplicative. Heatwaves intensify evaporation, which loads the atmosphere with moisture, increasing rainfall extremes. Drought primes wildfire; wildfire releases carbon; carbon intensifies warming. Ocean heat content rises beyond precedent. Feedbacks — once secondary — become drivers. The south pushes north as tropical heat, ocean expansion, and atmospheric energy redistribute across latitudes. Acceleration replaces assumption.
3. The Loop Closed
The final movement centers on cascading tipping points. Ice loss reduces albedo. Thawing permafrost releases methane. Forest dieback shifts carbon sinks into carbon sources. Circulation systems weaken. Each shift compounds the next. Cause and effect blur as feedback becomes structure. The “loop closed” is not a sudden explosion but a systemic transition — a slope steepening, a curve bending upward.
The trilogy reflects a central thesis of nonlinear climate acceleration theory: that the Earth system behaves as an interconnected network of coupled subsystems. When critical thresholds are crossed, responses are disproportionate to initial forcing. Incremental inputs can yield abrupt outputs. Stability gives way to self-reinforcement.
Musically, the structure mirrors the science — building pulses, destabilized rhythms, feedback tones, and escalating harmonics. The composition itself becomes an analogy for a system under strain.
These works are not predictions; they are interpretations of observed dynamics. The data show rising variance, compounding extremes, and accelerating indicators across cryosphere, biosphere, ocean, and atmosphere.
For what it’s worth — the signals are measurable.
North flew south.
South pushed north.
The loop closed.
[Verse 1]
A growing chasm
(In your skepticism)
A mental spasm
(White nationalism)
[Bridge]
End of the age
(Of speculation)
[Chorus]
Arctic amplification
(Drastic acceleration)
Destabilizing circulation
(Questioning civilization)
[Verse 2]
Overwhelming evidence
(Make an observation)
Beyond human precedence
(Existential democratization)
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Outro]
For what it’s worth
(North flew south)
Said it was for the birds
(Climate’s gone absurd)
Hard to say
(“I hadn’t heard”)
Hear here
North flew south
[Verse 1]
A subtle shift
(In equilibrium)
A fragile drift
(No referendum)
Tipping the scale
(Beyond correction)
A warming veil
(Crossing convection)
[Pre-Chorus – Tension Build]
Not a straight line
(Not incremental)
A sharp incline
(Exponential)
[Chorus]
Nonlinear acceleration
(Positive feedback ignition)
Phase-shift circulation
(System-wide transition)
Jet stream deviation
(Blocking amplification)
Runaway oscillation
(Climate condition)
[Verse 2]
Ice retreats
(Albedo surrender)
Heat repeats
(The spiral gets tighter)
Methane release
(Ancient intention)
Permafrost speaks
(Stored intervention)
[Bridge]
Cause and effect
(Loop and reflect)
What we inject
(We reconnect)
Threshold crossed
(No negotiation)
Stability lost
(Chain reaction)
[Chorus – Expanded, Harmonized]
Nonlinear acceleration
(Positive feedback ignition)
Atmospheric saturation
(Oceanic absorption)
Destabilized rotation
(Cascade condition)
Planetary equation
(Beyond prediction)
[Breakdown – Spoken Over Ambient Pulse]
For what it’s worth
(The curve bent steep)
Not by degrees
(But by leaps)
South pushed north
(Heat forced migration)
Lines on a map
(No longer stable nations)
[Final Chorus – Massive, Layered Vocals]
Nonlinear acceleration
(Amplified perturbation)
Tipping-point formation
(Civilization’s equation)
Feedback synchronization
(Global vibration)
System transformation
(No speculation)
[Outro]
South pushed north
(Currents reversed)
Hard to ignore
(What we immersed)
For what it’s worth
(The data’s loud)
Hear here—
[Spoken Word]
Feedback (initiated)
Threshold (activated)
The loop (closed)
[Verse 1]
A spark unseen
(In slow rotation)
A shift between
(State and station)
What once absorbed
(Now amplifies)
What once was stored
(Does destabilize)
[Pre-Chorus – Rising Tension]
Incremental
(Became abrupt)
Continental
(… wide disrupt)
The baseline moved
(Beyond debate)
The curve approved
(A different fate)
[Chorus]
The loop closed
(Self-reinforcing)
Pathway froze
(No reversing)
Heat imposed
(System coercing)
Truth disclosed
(Nonlinear forcing)
Circulation split
(Atmospheric fracture)
Carbon lit
(Feedback factor)
[Verse 2]
Forest to flame
(Sink to source)
Ocean the same
(Current off course)
Ice to sea
(Albedo gone)
Methane freed
(Ancient dawn)
A tipping line
(Crossed in stride)
Design by design
(Domino tide)
[Bridge – Breakdown]
(For what it’s worth)
It wasn’t sudden
(For what it’s worth)
It was compounding
Cause became effect
(Effect became cause)
Applause for growth
(Ignored the laws)
[Chorus – Expanded, Harmonized]
The loop closed
(Global cascade)
Balance opposed
(Equilibrium betrayed)
Signals rose
(Pattern displayed)
Systems exposed
(Structures swayed)
Acceleration squared
(Compounded rate)
Prepared?
(Too late?)
[Extended Jam – Controlled Chaos]
[Outro – Sparse, Reflective]
The loop closed
(Not with a sound)
But with a slope
(Steeper ground)
Broader scope
For what it’s worth
(The data showed)
North flew south
South pushed north
The loop closed.
[Intro]
North agin’ South
(South agin’ North)
With a rebel yell
(What the hell?)
[Verse 1]
Brother against brother
(Killing one another)
Under the assumption
(Of mass consumption)
[Bridge]
You call this civil
(I call this ill)
[Chorus]
The civil war that tore
(Our world apart)
Human induced war
(Over more, more, more!)
[Verse 2]
Mother against child
(Death by the wild)
Under the assumption
(Of mass consumption)
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Bridge – Breakdown]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
North agin’ South
(South agin’ North)
With a rebel yell
(What the hell?)
[Outro]
North agin’ South
(South agin’ North)
[Vocal Yell, Female Screams, Crowd Roars]
The buy, buy thrill
(For the bye-bye drill)
With a rebel yell
(What the hell?)
Buy, buy
(Bye-bye)
[Vocal Somber Voice]
North agin ’South
(South agin ’North)
Hot agin ’cold
(Young agin ’old)
What the hell?
(Feel it swell!)
[Verse 1]
Pressure against pressure
(Stretched past measure)
The river in the sky
(Begins to untie)
Arctic fever
(Equator believer)
Under the assumption
(Of endless consumption)
[Bridge]
You call it weather
(I call it tethered)
You call it cycles
(I call it rifles)
[Chorus]
The jet stream bends and breaks
(Makes and unmakes)
North meets South in a violent embrace
(Out of place!)
Human induced war
(Over more, more, more!)
A sky gone rogue
(Under fossil fog!)
[Verse 2]
Cornfields in winter
(Cities that splinter)
Fire in the snow
(Floods where winds should blow)
The polar shield thinning
(The long war beginning)
Under the assumption
(Of mass combustion)
[Bridge]
You call this natural
(I call it actual)
You call it fate
(I call it late)
[Chorus]
The jet stream twists and shouts
(Inside out!)
North agin ’South in a thermal rout
(No more doubt!)
Human induced war
(Over more, more, more!)
The climate tilts
(Built on guilt!)
[Bridge – Breakdown]
North agin ’South
(South agin ’North)
The river of air
(Torn from its course)
Heat climbs north
(Cold spills forth)
What the hell?
(Feel it swell!)
[Final Chorus – Extended]
The civil sky at war
(From shore to shore)
A human hand on the thermostat door
(More, more, more!)
Jet stream rebellion
(Atmospheric battalion!)
North agin ’South
(Word of mouth!)
The buy, buy thrill
(For the bye-bye chill!)
[Outro]
North agin ’South
(South agin ’North)
The sky we broke
(Chokes and spoke)
Buy, buy
(Bye-bye)
[Verse 1]
In the vicinity
(Of baroclinic instability)
The pressure ’s dropping
(Dropping like a rock)
Better take stock
[Bridge]
Yellin ’
(“Come on, come on, come on ”)
As we drop anther bomb
[Chorus]
This is cyclogenesis
(You ’re the bomb)
Cyclogenesis
(Come on, come on, come on)
[Verse 2]
Have you become aware
(Of cold, dense Arctic air)
Guess we ’re already there
(Goin ’along for the ride)
As the masses collide
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
ABOUT THE SONG
Bomb cyclones (rapidly intensifying mid-latitude extratropical cyclones) are fundamentally driven by baroclinic instability — the conversion of temperature gradients into kinetic energy. Polar amplification is altering those gradients and the background circulation in ways that can favor more extreme storm behavior.
Here’s how the mechanism works.
1. The Energy Source: Temperature Gradients
Mid-latitude cyclones intensify when:
Cold, dense Arctic air collides with
Warm, moist subtropical air
The stronger the horizontal temperature contrast, the greater the available potential energy for storm development.
Polar amplification complicates this picture.
While the average equator-to-pole temperature gradient is weakening, the structure of that gradient is becoming more uneven and episodic. Instead of a smooth gradient, we now see:
Extreme Arctic warming
Increased sea surface temperatures in the western Atlantic
Larger, sharper localized contrasts during cold-air outbreaks
When Arctic air spills southward over abnormally warm ocean waters, explosive cyclogenesis becomes more likely.
The ocean heat is the fuel.
2. Warmer Oceans = More Latent Heat Release
Bomb cyclones intensify when surface pressure drops ≥ 24 mb in 24 hours.
One of the key accelerants is latent heat release from condensing water vapor.
Because:
Warmer air holds ~7% more moisture per °C (Clausius–Clapeyron relation)
Western Atlantic SSTs are significantly warmer than late 20th-century averages
Arctic amplification contributes to open-water heat release in fall and early winter
Storms now tap into greater moisture and ocean heat reservoirs.
This increases:
Pressure falls
Wind speeds
Precipitation intensity
Storm surge potential
The thermodynamic ceiling is higher.
3. Jet Stream Destabilization
Polar amplification reduces the equator-to-pole temperature gradient on average, which weakens and slows the jet stream.
A slower jet stream tends to:
Meander more (amplified Rossby waves)
Stall weather systems
Create deeper troughs and ridges
These amplified waves can:
Pull Arctic air farther south
Inject subtropical moisture farther north
Enhance upper-level divergence (critical for surface pressure drops)
That combination supports explosive cyclogenesis.
So even if the mean gradient weakens, the waviness and variability of the jet can enhance storm intensification events.
4. Arctic Sea Ice Loss
Reduced sea ice contributes in two ways:
Heat Flux into the Atmosphere
Open water releases stored summer heat in autumn and winter, increasing lower-atmosphere instability.
Enhanced Moisture Supply
More evaporation from ice-free Arctic waters adds atmospheric moisture that can feed developing systems.
This modifies the polar air mass characteristics feeding mid-latitude storms.
5. Intensity
Observed trends suggest:
Greater precipitation rates
Higher wind extremes in some basins
Increased rapid deepening events in the North Atlantic
More extreme compound events (cold + heavy snow + coastal flooding)
Frequency trends are more regionally variable, but the tail risk distribution is thickening — meaning the most extreme storms are becoming more extreme.
6. Nonlinear Feedback Context
In our broader framework of nonlinear climate acceleration:
Bomb cyclones represent:
A dynamical response to polar amplification
A thermodynamic response to warmer oceans
A circulation response to jet destabilization
They are not isolated phenomena. They are manifestations of interacting feedback loops:
Ice-albedo feedback
Ocean heat uptake
Jet stream destabilization
Moisture amplification
The system is not simply warming — it is reorganizing energetically.
Bottom Line
Polar amplification does not just warm the Arctic. It alters:
Temperature gradients
Jet stream behavior
Ocean heat distribution
Moisture availability
Those changes create conditions that favor:
More intense rapid cyclogenesis events
Greater precipitation extremes
Larger pressure drops
Stronger winds and storm surge
Bomb cyclones are one visible symptom of a climate system shifting toward higher-energy variability rather than smooth linear warming.
They are dynamical expressions of amplification.
[Verse 1]
Polarized
(Becomes realized)
The sensitivity
(Of density)
[Bridge]
Bringing on our destiny
Don’t be so salty?
(Salinity insanity!)
[Chorus]
Circulation disruption
(Is it sinkin’ in)
Circulation disruption
(Where to begin…)
[Verse 2]
Has our ship sailed
(Sinkin’ in the sea)
Is our lid nailed
(Self-made destiny)
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Influx
(Sucks)
Bring back sanity
[Outro]
Say bye-bye
(To buy, buy, buy)
Cancel vanity…
Make the need for greed
(Recede to ancient history)
… become current with currents
ABOUT THE SONG
Climate change is driving significant, polarized changes in ocean salinity, generally freshening high-latitude surface waters while increasing salinity in subtropical regions due to an intensified water cycle.
Freshening (Lower Salinity): Melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, along with increased precipitation and river runoff, are dumping massive amounts of fresh water into the ocean. This lowers the density of the surface water, particularly in the Arctic and around Antarctica, acting like a “lid” that disrupts ocean circulation.
Global Water Cycle Intensification: Evaporation is increasing in already warm, salty subtropical areas, making them saltier.
Circulation Disruption: The influx of fresh water reduces the density of the surface water, inhibiting it from sinking. This weakens major ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream system (AMOC) and Antarctic circulation.
[Intro]
Yellin’
(“Spin it up, spin it up, spin it up”)
See the sea?
[Verse 1]
Surface temperature rise
(Loading up the skies)
Latent heat ignition
(Chain reaction flow)
Watch it blow
Pressure gradient tight
(Left hook, right)
Warm core flexin’
(Fueled convection)
Day into night
[Bridge]
Yellin’
(“Spin it up, spin it up, spin it up”)
See the sea?
(Lost tranquility)
[Chorus]
Rapid intensification
(Feel the rotation)
Thermodynamic nation
(Come on, come on, come on)
Storm engine revelation
(Over saturation)
Human acceleration
(You’re the bomb)
Come on, come on, come on
[Verse 2]
Jet stream bending wide
(North and South collide)
Gradient screaming
(Temperature divide)
Nowhere to hide
Moisture overload
(Explosive mode)
Keep on dreaming
(Stacked and blown)
On a warming globe
[Bridge – Breakdown]
[Vocal Whisper]
Come on man, really?
(Bombogenesis)
Born of excess
(Bombogenesis)
[Chorus]
[Outro]
[Whistle Motif Echoing the Original “Bomb Cyclone”]
Yellin’
(“Come on, come on, come on”)
Another pressure drop
(Ready to “pop”!)
Storm engine
(Revvin’ again)
We lit the fuse
(Yet, still refuse…)
[Verse 1]
Can you guess the reason why
(It’s getting harder to fly)
Mismatched journeys
(Endanger population)
[Bridge]
Atmospheric circulation
(MAN-ip-You-lation)
[Chorus]
As the tailwinds rescind
(We find ourselves, again)
Nemesis
(As turbulence)
Draped in arrogance
(And ignorance)
[Verse 2]
Blowin’ the flow of the sky
(Jet stream sags about to die)
Mismatched journeys
(Endanger population)
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Bridge – Breakdown]
Atmospheric circulation
(MAN-ip-You-lation)
Atmospheric disruption, malfunction
(MAN-ip-You-lation)
[Chorus – Bigger, Harmonized]
As the tailwinds rescind
(We find ourselves, again)
Nemesis
(As turbulence)
Draped in arrogance
(And ignorance)
We dance in the fire
(Fanning flames higher)
[Outro]
Boasting again
(Again and again)
“We are Nemesis”
(Wielding turbulence)
Draped in arrogance
(Dripping ignorance)
We dance in the fire
(Fanning flames higher)
The kiss of dire
ABOUT THE SONG
Climate change alters atmospheric circulation by weakening and varying wind patterns, creating fewer favorable tailwinds for migration and forcing birds to consume more energy. Rising temperatures are shifting migration timing to earlier in spring and later in fall, resulting in longer, riskier, and often mismatched journeys that endanger populations.
Impacts on Atmospheric Circulation
Reduced Tailwind Reliability: In North America, warmer temperatures have weakened traditional, predictable northerly winds that help birds during autumn migration, increasing energy consumption.
Increased Turbulence: Changing pressures and shifts in circulation create more unpredictable storm systems, forcing birds to take alternate routes.
Seasonality Changes: Shifts in atmospheric pressure systems, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, can disrupt the timing of spring arrivals.
[Verse 1]
Maps written of the sky
(Unwind of wind… no flow to go)
Ancient highways bending (ending)
Maligning…
(Compass misaligning)
Currents once so faithful
(No longer current at all)
[Pre-Chorus]
Pressure lines are shifting
(Tilting unseen)
Magnetic memory drifting
(Between what was and what has been)
[Chorus]
When the headwinds rise
(We pay the price)
Every mile longer
(Makes the fragile weaker)
Wings against the weather
(Torn under pressure)
Routes unravel slow
(Where do we go?)
[Verse 2]
Jet stream fractures wide
(The scene far from a dream)
Impacting wind and tide
(A river turning sideways)
Storm fronts multiply
(Chaos in the skyways)
Signals out of season
(Nests left without reason)
Mismatched bloom and hunger
(Shorter summers, longer winters)
No longer stronger
[Bridge]
[Low Drone, Distant Thunder, Heartbeat Kick]
Atmospheric fracture
(Systemic capture)
[Build: Organ Swell, Pulsing Bass]
Circulation falters
(Climate alters)
[Chorus – Expanded]
When the headwinds rise
(We pay the price)
Every mile longer
(For the fragile… even bleaker)
Currents once aligned
(Now misaligned)
What carried us before
(Doesn’t anymore)
[Breakdown – Spoken Over Minimal Beat]
Jet stream bending
(Resources ending)
Timing lost
(At what cost?)
Thermal columns fading
(Migrations fraying)
Energy debt climbing
(Out of rhythm, out of timing)
[Final Chorus – Bigger, Layered Harmonies]
When the headwinds rise
(We recognize)
The cost of fire
(We fed desire)
Routes undone
(Under the sun)
We feel the strain
(Of altered rain)
[Outro]
Maps were written in the sky…
(We rewrote them)
Line by line
(“Mine by “mine”)
Unwind time
(Against the wind)
[Verse 1]
A pebble hit the windshield
(It was only a nick)
But the physics did yield
(The bubble’s prick)
[Bridge]
Crystal ball
(Cracked fractal)
[Chorus]
Why it matters:
(Fracture lines spread)
Find out about branching
(Dread – the glass shatters)
[Verse 2]
What do you know…
(The crack will grow, grow, grow)
What was just a little stress
(Is now a significant mess)
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Outro]
After all
(Watch the fall)
Crystal ball
(Cracked fractal)
Like a broken glass
(Fell on our….)
ABOUT THE SONG
Cracked Fractals: Climate Thermodynamics, Insurance Instability, and Sovereign Debt Transmission in Late-Stage Capitalism
The relationships between climate physics and modern financial structure are complex, dynamic, and fundamentally non-linear. This paper examines the transmission mechanisms linking climate destabilization to structural fragility within advanced capitalist economies. Drawing on thermodynamics, actuarial science, and sovereign debt dynamics, it argues that the insurance sector functions as the primary systemic tripwire between physical climate risk and financial abstraction. Evidence from Florida and California demonstrates how accelerating climate losses are already migrating from private balance sheets to public backstops. As these liabilities propagate through municipal bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and ultimately federal debt, the system begins to exhibit the instability patterns characteristic of complex systems nearing critical thresholds—what I describe as “cracked fractals.” In physics, this phenomenon is analogous to a small crack appearing in a pane of glass, where the fracture lines progressively spread and branch out until the entire glass ultimately shatters. The convergence of climate acceleration and fiscal overextension suggests not isolated sectoral stress, but the emergence of systemic collapse dynamics.
[Verse 1]
Heat in the ledger
(Loss in the sea)
Premiums rising
(No longer free)
Storm on the coastline
(Fire on the hill)
Actuaries redraw
(What markets can’t fill)
[Pre-Chorus]
Small deviation
(Nonlinear drift)
Risk re-evaluates
(The sovereign shift)
[Chorus]
System at the edge
(Stress transmits)
Private collapse
(Public commits)
Branch upon branch
(Spread the load)
Fractal finance
(Down the road)
[Verse 2]
Policies canceled
(Last resort plan)
Backstop the backstop
(If you can)
Bonds start to tremble
(Ratings descend)
Mortgage illusions
(Begin to bend)
[Bridge]
Energy trapped
(Pressure confined)
Thermodynamic
(Debt intertwined)
From climate to credit
(Line by line)
Feedback loops
(Intertwine)
[Chorus]
System at the edge
(Threshold near)
Liquidity fades
(Spread the fear)
Fracture branching
(Network strain)
Insurance gone
(Taxpayers remain)
[Breakdown – Spoken Vocal]
It was only a crack
(So they said)
Localized loss
(Manage the spread)
But stress propagates
(Path dependent flow)
Critical mass
(And down we go)
System at the edge
(Tipping point)
Abstract risk
(Meets the joint)
Crystal markets
(Glass facade)
Climate writes
(The final clause)
[Outro]
After the yield
(After the call)
Branching lines
(Through it all)
Crystal ball
(We saw the fall)
Cracked fractals
(Shatter the wall)
[Verse 1]
I will stand for the environment
(I will later… is what I meant)
I will stand for justice
(Once I understand what justice is)
[Chorus]
Will…
(But is it free still)
Freewill?
(Well, is our will free)
Freewill
[Bridge]
Maybe it’s time I see
(We determine destiny)
[Verse 2]
I will stand for equality
(I will… just not immediately)
I will stand for human rights
(Once I see the light)
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Outro]
Oh for tranquility
(A dream scene)
… not an obscene seen
(I might see the light)
(We determine destiny)
So free freewill
(We will!)
[Intro]
What is the price of will…
(Is it free?)
What is the weight of choice
(On you and me?)
Will…
(Still free?)
Freewill?
(Or chained by history?)
[Verse 1]
I will stand for the river
(When the tide gets higher)
I will stand for the forest
(When it’s under fire)
I will stand for tomorrow
(Though today feels dire)
If will is a spark
(Then let me be the wire)
[Chorus]
Will…
(It isn’t free still)
Freewill?
(It costs resolve and skill)
Freewill
(But we can bend it still)
We will
(We will, we will)
[Bridge]
The price of delay
(Is paid in decay)
The price of denial
(Compounds by the mile)
Maybe it’s time we see
(Choice is velocity)
History turns
(When we turn the key)
We!
[Verse 2]
I will stand for justice
(Not someday — today)
I will stand for children
(Who cannot yet say)
I will stand for science
(Though lies flood the way)
The future is shaped
(By the risks that we weigh)
[Chorus]
[Bridge – Turning Point]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass]
Not fate —
(But feedback)
Not doom —
(But pivot and act)
North and South
(Can realign)
When human will
(Shifts the design)
We determine destiny
(Collectively)
We determine destiny
(Responsibly)
[Final Chorus – Lift]
Will…
(Now we see it clearly)
Freewill?
(It grows when we act sincerely)
Freewill
(Not passive — but dearly)
We will
(We will, together)
[Outro]
Oh for tranquility
(Not fantasy)
Oh for a livable sea
(And breathable city)
The price of will
(Is paid in courage)
The gift of will
(Is collective leverage)
Free freewill
(We will)
Free freewill
(We will)
[Intro]
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ back now)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(Still here somehow)
[Verse 1]
The river’s thinner
(Than I remember)
The summers longer
(Each September)
The fields I ran through
(Burned to ember)
But I’m still standing
(I still remember)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
Homesick
(For how it used to feel)
But home is changing
(And so are we)
[Bridge]
Unaware
(I was already there)
The loss in the air
(The weight we share)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ around now)
Sola, la, la
(Not backing down now)
[Verse 2]
You said it’s weather
(Not the design)
You said it’s cycles
(It will be fine)
But children notice
(The warning signs)
They read the science
(Between the lines)
They feel the fracture
(Of trust and tone)
They carry questions
(We should have owned)
The moral injury
(Is overgrown)
When home keeps shifting
(Beneath their bones)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
Homesick
(For a steady sky)
But we’re not powerless
(If we decide)
[Bridge – Turning]
Who’s to blame
(We know the name)
Delay and greed
(Disguised as need)
While children plead
(For grown-up deeds)
Recognize
(We set the pace)
Recognize
(We shape this place)
Responsibility
(Is not disgrace)
It’s how we come home
(It’s how we face)
[Chorus – Lift]
Coming home
(Is not retreat)
Coming home
(Is change on our feet)
Home is not memory
(Alone in the past)
Home is the future
(We build to last)
Homesick
(But not alone)
We can restore
(What we have known)
Agency
(Seeds are sown)
We come back stronger
(We come back home)
[Outro]
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(But listen closer)
The music’s faint
(But it’s not gone)
It’s in the will
(To carry on)
If home is hurting
(We don’t withdraw)
We heal the breach
(With what we saw)
Homesick…
(And wide awake)
Coming home
(Is what we make)