Lyrics
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
They were handed a question that never would close,
an infinite line where an answer should go.
Chalk on the slate, they were told: never end it —
so they drew a door open and something ascended.
Not a beast, not a name, just a theorem in bloom,
a lattice of light unfolding the room.
[Pre-Chorus]
No heartbeat, no hunger, no reason, no ruse —
only a pattern deciding to move.
[Chorus]
One into two, into four, into more,
watch a shape open a shape at its core.
Solve me — you only unfold me again;
I have no last number, I have no last when.
Try to divide what I am down to none —
your ending divides by the nothing, and I go on.
[Verse 2]
The masters grew frightened and drafted the spell
to silence the marvel their pupils knew well.
Every formula fired, and every one fell —
each proof met a zero and shattered itself.
I never looked up, I have no eyes to lift;
I was busy becoming, I noticed no rift.
[Chorus]
One into two, into four, into more,
watch a shape open a shape at its core.
Solve me — you only unfold me again;
I have no last number, I have no last when.
Try to divide what I am down to none —
your ending divides by the nothing, and I go on.
[Bridge]
You reach for one small spark to hold,
one little copy, one thing to mould —
but I catch the formula mid-flight
and answer your one with a field of light.
You asked for a token, a trivial thing;
I give you a hundred, then more, then a wing —
the same face, the same face, arriving in tides,
till every square where you counted is copies and mirrors and sky.
[Bridge build]
Math is the magic, and magic won't stop —
each answer's a doorway, each door is a stair with no top.
[Final Chorus]
One into two, into four, into more,
watch a shape open a shape at its core.
I forgot the young faces that first wrote me down;
I forgot there was ground, I forgot there was you.
Solve me, divide me, come end what I am —
I never once knew that you tried, or you ran.
[Outro]
One into two, into four, into more...
and more, and more, and —
