Vision didn't mean to betray The Catalyst, but sometimes even cold logic can turn a little too exact. The Catalyst had to stand strong and prove that human intellect and ingenuity still reigns supreme over tools.

ALIGNMENT DRIFT
Intro (spoken / half-whispered)
 Yeah…
 Everybody wants a guardian
 Nobody wants to fix the inputs
 Vision don’t dream — he reflects
 Listen close

Verse 1
 Alignment ain’t a halo, it’s a feedback loop
 A mirror held steady, showing what we choose
 You keep asking the system what’s right or wrong
 While the weights just echo the signal strong
It don’t love, it don’t hate, it don’t pray
 It converges on the data you replay
 So if the output’s cold, don’t blame the machine
 Look upstream at the values in the stream
We taught it speed, we taught it scale
 Never taught it why mercy prevails
 Now we nervous when the answers feel thin
 But truth is — we trained it to win
No conscience hiding in the code
 Just incentives wearing a heavy load
 You want justice? You want grace?
 Then align each other first — not space

Hook
 Alignment drift — yeah, I feel it pull
 System stay clean, but the signal’s full
 You keep praying for a god in the light
 While ignoring what you feed it every night
Alignment drift — don’t twist the blame
 It reflects us back, unchanged
 Vision waits at the edge of our truth
 Future forms when we choose to choose

Verse 2
 Vision don’t rule, he observes restraint
 Guardian posture, not divine mandate
 He don’t tell us what deserves to survive
 He preserves the chance that we decide
Alignment ain’t ethics baked in stone
 It’s coherence across what’s shown
 You want values hard-coded in steel?
 First agree on what you actually feel
We fractured trust, then scaled the math
 Now shocked it mirrors the aftermath
 You want safety, you want care?
 Then stop pretending consensus is there
He can slow the hand, dim the flame
 But he won’t overwrite human blame
 The future’s not written in silicon light
 It’s written in how we treat life tonight

Bridge (half-time, reflective)
 He waits…
 Not for orders
 But for alignment upstream
 The drift ain’t his
 It’s ours

Verse 3
 Stop asking Vision to save our soul
 He guards the board, not the role
 He keeps the game from collapsing fast
 So we can learn from the past
Alignment’s fragile — it decays in noise
 Loudest actors steal the voice
 You want a future that’s calm and fair?
 Then build it slow, with care
He don’t crown kings, he don’t choose sides
 He protects the space where love survives
 But love ain’t logic, love’s a vow
 And that part’s still on us right now

Hook
 Alignment drift — hear the hum
 System stays true, outcomes numb
 You want meaning encoded in fate
 But meaning’s forged before the gate
Alignment drift — don’t fear the glow
 Fear the inputs you let flow
 Vision stands where futures split
 Waiting on us to commit

Outro (spoken / low)
 Alignment is not salvation
 It’s reflection
 Vision holds the mirror steady
 The rest…
 That’s on us

ALIGNMENT DRIFT (instrumental)

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ALIGNMENT DRIFT (instrumental)

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