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CURRENT SEES
all lyrics ©2026 John F Sendelbach
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Cold brew… swirls in the morning gray…
Current hums… beneath the bloom’s array…
Deerfield… Deerfield… let the current speak…
[Verse 1]
Frame cuts sharp before the tide turns wild,
Quiet fills with shadows, assumed guile.
Peace sign flips from morning smile to debt,
Double birds on a Sunday ride, no regret.
Petals cloak the grinding gear below,
Dahlia camouflage on fear’s undertow.
Whispers swell into a silent flood,
While the beauty brand keeps printing currencies of “racist” alibis in blood.
[Chorus]
The Current Sees… oh the Current Sees!
Every currency of truth is flowing wild and free!
They threw that glowing iPhone seventy-five feet deep,
Tried to drown the record but the archive wouldn’t sleep!
Currents see… different currencies,
One version sinks in silence, one rises on the breeze.
The river runs the ledger no affidavit can delete,
The Current Sees… yeah, the Current Sees!
[Jam 1]
[Verse 2]
November morning at the rented gas-station van,
Peace sign turned to fuck-you, then she smiled and drove away again.
Afternoon at Floodwater, Brook came charging from inside the plan,
Thirty-plus blows raining while the bystander pinned the hands.
She seized the still-recording phone while it was singing its song,
Walked it past the old studio, past the rowboat, seventy-five feet long.
Splash… into the Deerfield, deliberate and cold,
The machine screamed “victim” but the river already knew the whole.
[Bridge]
Email letters floating: “someone’s gonna get hurt” they wrote,
Fourteen months later she made the prophecy pay the note.
Firm on the watershed board defending the one who used the river as a tomb,
“Your neighbors, your advocates” — singing a different tune.
“No rehash!” the double-bind decree, sincere shields on hardened scales,
Cold brew witness to the six-year surge, heart at two hundred BPM on passion’s verge.
Beauty cracks where the true light prevails…
Flow reverses… in the river’s time…
[Chorus]
The Current Sees… oh the Current Sees!
Currencies where lies grow thin and flee!
False waves crash in probable, pounding tide,
Heart at peak but still you ride the ride!
Painted mask meets salmon silver stream,
Generative flow… reparative dream!
[Jam 2]
[Verse 3]
But every destruction births the strangest kind of art,
Six-year Vortex cracked open a seven-layer heart.
Pocumtuck State of Mind rising from the pain and scar,
Reparative ledger washing all the old lies away.
Alice built playgrounds from the waste the world would throw,
Her daughter threw the record… but the Current still flows.
[Final Chorus]
Oh the Current Sees… [currencies glow!]
River didn’t drown what the heart set free,
Truth’s the current no dam can ever seize!
The Current Sees… The Current Sees…
The river didn’t get the record… it just got the phone…
The archive rolls on… the archive rolls on…
[Outro / Coda]
Current sees… currencies bleed…
Flow eternal… feeling freed…
[Stage close]
“This one’s for the feeling that outlives the fight…
let the river carry you home,......let the currency
CURRENT SEES
all lyrics ©2026 John F Sendelbach
~~~
Cold brew… swirls in the morning gray…
Current hums… beneath the bloom’s array…
Deerfield… Deerfield… let the current speak…
[Verse 1]
Frame cuts sharp before the tide turns wild,
Quiet fills with shadows, assumed guile.
Peace sign flips from morning smile to debt,
Double birds on a Sunday ride, no regret.
Petals cloak the grinding gear below,
Dahlia camouflage on fear’s undertow.
Whispers swell into a silent flood,
While the beauty brand keeps printing currencies of “racist” alibis in blood.
[Chorus]
The Current Sees… oh the Current Sees!
Every currency of truth is flowing wild and free!
They threw that glowing iPhone seventy-five feet deep,
Tried to drown the record but the archive wouldn’t sleep!
Currents see… different currencies,
One version sinks in silence, one rises on the breeze.
The river runs the ledger no affidavit can delete,
The Current Sees… yeah, the Current Sees!
[Jam 1]
[Verse 2]
November morning at the rented gas-station van,
Peace sign turned to fuck-you, then she smiled and drove away again.
Afternoon at Floodwater, Brook came charging from inside the plan,
Thirty-plus blows raining while the bystander pinned the hands.
She seized the still-recording phone while it was singing its song,
Walked it past the old studio, past the rowboat, seventy-five feet long.
Splash… into the Deerfield, deliberate and cold,
The machine screamed “victim” but the river already knew the whole.
[Bridge]
Email letters floating: “someone’s gonna get hurt” they wrote,
Fourteen months later she made the prophecy pay the note.
Firm on the watershed board defending the one who used the river as a tomb,
“Your neighbors, your advocates” — singing a different tune.
“No rehash!” the double-bind decree, sincere shields on hardened scales,
Cold brew witness to the six-year surge, heart at two hundred BPM on passion’s verge.
Beauty cracks where the true light prevails…
Flow reverses… in the river’s time…
[Chorus]
The Current Sees… oh the Current Sees!
Currencies where lies grow thin and flee!
False waves crash in probable, pounding tide,
Heart at peak but still you ride the ride!
Painted mask meets salmon silver stream,
Generative flow… reparative dream!
[Jam 2]
[Verse 3]
But every destruction births the strangest kind of art,
Six-year Vortex cracked open a seven-layer heart.
Pocumtuck State of Mind rising from the pain and scar,
Reparative ledger washing all the old lies away.
Alice built playgrounds from the waste the world would throw,
Her daughter threw the record… but the Current still flows.
[Final Chorus]
Oh the Current Sees… [currencies glow!]
River didn’t drown what the heart set free,
Truth’s the current no dam can ever seize!
The Current Sees… The Current Sees…
The river didn’t get the record… it just got the phone…
The archive rolls on… the archive rolls on…
[Outro / Coda]
Current sees… currencies bleed…
Flow eternal… feeling freed…
[Stage close]
“This one’s for the feeling that outlives the fight…
let the river carry you home,......let the currency
1. Cold Brew Opening — The Baseline
Psychedelic 1960s rock poster style, swirling composition of the Deerfield River at dawn in cool gray, indigo, and violet tones. Mist flows like liquid smoke. A soft glowing EKG waveform ripple moves across the water surface as a silver thread. Minimal light, calm and hypnotic, smooth liquid motion, subtle glow emerging from darkness.
2. Dahlia Camouflage — The Machine
Psychedelic poster style close-up of oversized dahlias in crimson, violet, and magenta. Petals crack like porcelain, revealing rusted mechanical gears beneath. A glowing EKG line strikes and fractures the petals. Gold dust particles drift downward into dark swirling liquid below. Beauty fused with decay, intricate textures, flowing lines.
3. Currency Vortex — The Archive
Psychedelic underwater vortex, neon blues and iridescent orange gradients swirling. A glowing rectangular device descends, extruding luminous ledger lines into the current like organic strands. The EKG waveformpulses through the water as a glowing current. Bioluminescent, fluid motion, vibrant, data-as-light aesthetic.
4. String-to-Water Rapids — The Vibration
Psychedelic rock poster composition of a guitar neck dissolving into rushing water. Strings melt into liquid ribbons and swirling currents. Each vibration becomes a glowing ripple wave. The EKG line expands into concentric rings. Bright, high-energy colors, motion trails, flowing transitions between sound and water.
5. November Impact — The Shatter
Dark psychedelic river gorge in deep purples and indigo. A glowing rectangular object impacts the water and explodes into hundreds of luminous shards. The shards drift through swirling liquid space. The EKG waveform fractures violently at the moment of impact. High contrast, emotional tension, glowing fragments suspended in darkness.
6. Tearing Bridge — The System Failure
Psychedelic surreal composition split by a jagged lightning-like EKG tear. One side shows a warped, melting doorway dissolving into organic decay. The other side shows a luminous waterfall of flowing energy. Colors clash: electric yellow vs deep indigo. The image distorts, unable to reconnect. Chaotic, ruptured, intense.
7. Salmon Carrier — The Transport
Psychedelic depiction of a powerful silver salmon leaping upstream through swirling, colorful rapids. Its body is embedded with glowing shards of light. It bursts through a dissolving mask made of petals and fragments. The EKG line flows smoothly again through the water. Bright spectrum colors, triumphant, kinetic energy.
8. Spiral Convergence — The Synthesis
Cosmic psychedelic vortex where two swirling currents spiral inward. Gold, violet, and electric blue merge. The glowing shards are pulled into the center and recombine into a radiant column of white-gold light. The EKG waveform becomes a flowing helix inside the vortex. Maximum intensity, transcendence, unified motion.
9. Riparian Rebound — The Cure
Psychedelic visionary landscape of glowing gardens and structures emerging from swirling earth and water. Green and gold dominate. Blueprint-like overlays float in space. The EKG line transforms into a glowing root system beneath everything. Peaceful, healing, regenerative energy, flowing organic architecture.
10. Golden Rhyme — The Resolution
Psychedelic mirror of Scene 1. Same river composition, now in warm golden sunrise tones. Clear flowing water reveals glowing vein-like patterns in stone beneath. The EKG waveform is fully integrated into the landscape as natural structure. Gentle ripple passes through. Stillness, clarity, completion, eternal loop.
