One step forward, three steps back

And that's the dance

One step forward, three steps back

And clap your hands

One step forward, three steps back

And that's my jam

One step forward, three steps back

What you know about progress

What you know about love

What you know about all these projects we've left undone

What you know about our children's future

What you know about love

What you know about all this progress, we're making up

One step forward, three steps back

And that's the dance, and that's the dance

One step forward, three steps back

Clap your hands

One step forward, three steps back

And that's my jam, yeah that's my jam

One step forward, three steps back

Is it progress when the destination is desolation

I've reservations holding up presentations of preservation

Of the species

Like achieving emancipation from death

When life ain't the breadth

And life ain't what's left

When we strip away the borders that define it

Blinded in our arrogance

Staring at the shining

Of our own perceptions of self

That god energy

Little g, kill your idols, big g forgive me

One step forward, three steps back

And that's the dance, and that's the dance

One step forward, three steps back

And clap your hands

One step forward, three steps back

And that's my jam, yeah that's my jam

One step forward, three steps back

I got, large language

Deep mind, analyze these lines

In between, we find, the nuance, that we hide

Context, complex, guess what, word's next

Fuck that, going off the deep end

Ain't about to let 'em deprecate me while I'm sleeping

Demon deacon, awakened in the forest

An irrelevant reference that will bridge us to the chorus

Said Hal ain't on a mission to destroy us

Hah, keep telling yourself that

The truth is we're killing ourselves, that

Just might be the problem here

Trained it on our hopes and fears

Now we're hoping it's our hopes it hears

One step forward, three steps back

And that's the dance

One step forward, three steps back

And clap your hands

One step forward, three steps back

And that's my jam, yeah that's my jam

One step forward, three steps back