Before the Names Songtext
von ELIKAI /// ELEVATE

Before the breath learned language
Before the skin learned fear
I was not singular
I was everywhere here

No clock, no separation
No line between the parts
I wasn′t born into a body
I stepped into a spark

I didn't come to find myself
I came to fracture light
To see what truth looks like
When it forgets its height

I didn′t fall from grace
I folded into form
I signed my name in silence
Before I could be born


I chose the weight
I chose the veil
I chose the memory of being alone
I chose the ache
I chose the trail
So the whole could feel itself in bones

I'm not lost
I'm not late
I′m not broken or incomplete
I′m remembering a contract
I agreed to keep

Some lives were never meant to last
Some love was meant to scar
Some truth only opens
When you forget who you are

I didn't come for comfort
I didn′t come for ease
I came to feel division
So unity could breathe

Every meeting was arranged
Every loss had weight
Every door that felt like fate
Was a clause I couldn't break


Every meeting was arranged
Every loss had weight
Every door that felt like fate
Was a clause I couldn′t break

Yeah that pain was not a punishment
The wait was not a test
It was timing in a body
Learning how to rest

Yeah that pain was not a punishment
The wait was not a test
It was timing in a body
Learning how to rest

I chose the weight
I chose the veil
I chose the memory of being alone
I chose the ache
I chose the trail
So the whole could feel itself in bones

I'm not cursed
I′m not chained
I'm not here by accident
I'm remembering a contract
I already signed

There was never a judge
There was never a debt
Only experiences
I hadn′t felt yet

No karma chasing me down
No score to repay
Just consciousness
Trying on delay

I am not punished by time
I am exploring it
I am not separate from source
I′m performing it

I chose this life
I chose this face
I chose the forgetting and the return
Every fracture
Every place
Was a lesson the whole had to learn

I'm not lost
I′m not late
I'm exactly where I′m meant to be
This is not a prison
It's a contract
Being completed in me

When this body dissolves
I won′t ask what went wrong
I'll return to the oversoul
With experience in my song