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Not Today

Album 7: Step Outside, It’s Lovely

-Verse 1-

My canteen coughs its final breath

My satchel holds what time denied

The road unravels into ash

Yet still I take it in my stride

-Verse 2-

The reactor stutters in my chest

A dying sun in tempered steel

Each warning flickers, begs for rest

I answer only: forward still

-Chorus-

When I meet the face of death

I will greet it standing straight

I will say it missed its hour

I will tell it—come too late

When it lays its shadow down

When it dares to speak my name

I will answer, not today!

And step forward all the same

-Verse 3-

The wind recites forgotten names

Through broken teeth of rust and bone

It asks me what I’m fighting for—

I walk as if I’ve always known

-Verse 4-

Each servo groans like aging vows

Each joint protests, each circuit frays

But something deeper than the wire

Still drives the weight of what remains

-Chorus-

When I meet the face of death

I won’t bargain, I won’t bend

I will stand in quiet defiance

Like a man who will not end

When it stretches out its hand

When it claims what it can take

I will answer, not today!

And refuse it while I wake

-Bridge-

No water left to steady breath...

No strength reserved, no second plan

But one more step defies the dark—

And one more step… is still a stand

-Verse 5-

If this is where the road dissolves

Then let it break beneath my pace

For even ending, when it comes

Will have to meet me face to face

-Chorus-

When I meet the face of death

I will look it in the eye

Not as something left to claim—

But as something passing by

When it comes to write my end

When it draws its final line

I will answer, not today…

For this moment still is mine