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Bach: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 by Glenn Gould

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Varition 2 a 1 Clav. (Remastered 2023, Studio 1955)

A cosmic expansion of perspective. Stardust, consciousness, and the absurd miracle of existing at all. Deep, awe-filled, and quietly life-affirming.

[Intro]
You are breathing in the oldest light in the universe.
Every breath - a recycled star’s exhale.
Welcome home.

[Verse 1]
I’m inhaling atoms older than God’s first song,
Exhaling galaxies tangled in lungs all along.
Every heartbeat calls back to that cosmic grace,
The first pulse - still humming in my tiny space.

I’m a timeline folded in skin and soul,
A child of chaos still seeking control.
But the void isn’t empty - it’s the love I forgot,
The silent explosion that wanted me caught.

[Pre-Chorus]
And every breath reminds me -
I’m not separate, just aware.
I was born from stardust memory,
And I’m still returning there.

[Chorus]
I’m breathing in the Big Bang,
Fire in my veins,
Gravity and grace -
One in the same.

There’s a universe unfolding
Under all my fears -
I’m breathing in the Big Bang…
I’m still here.

[Verse 2]
I keep forgetting that I’m ancient,
That my cells recall the sun.
That inertia’s just a language
Of destinies undone.

But when I’m quiet - oh, it finds me,
That electric sacred truth:
I was not afraid of dying,
I’d just forgotten I was proof.

[Pre-Chorus]
And every breath invites me
To collapse back into flame -
A small spark remembering
The furnace that made its name.

[Chorus]
I’m breathing in the Big Bang,
Fire in my veins,
Chaos writing poetry
In my DNA.

There’s a universe expanding
In every quiet tear -
I’m breathing in the Big Bang…
And I’m still here.

[Bridge]
You are not separate.
You are not less.
You are the aftermath of holy fire
learning to describe itself in sentences.

When you breathe,
you revive starlight.

[Final Chorus]
We’re all breathing in the Big Bang,
Fire in our veins,
Human, yes, but holy -
In these glitch-made frames.

We’re constellations grounded
In laughter, dirt, and fear -
We’re breathing in the Big Bang…
And yet, somehow -
We’re here.

[Outro]
Somehow - all this.
And we get to be conscious.
What a gift.

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