From the recording LP13 EMPOWERMENT
You can't move forwards....the past is always there. The lyric’s narrator feels trapped in a feedback loop where memory has become almost physical—creaking floorboards, “threads of yesterday,” and photographs that still speak their name. Attempts to step forward (“I lean toward the light”) are thwarted by an inner static, as if the past has coded itself into their very heartbeat (“a memory that won’t reboot”). The imagery of glitches, loops, and rust blurs human emotion with a faintly technological unease, suggesting that trauma and regret behave like stubborn software bugs: they keep replaying no matter how hard you try to overwrite them. The song captures the tension between the yearning for release and the inescapable gravity of what’s already been.
Lyrics
ECHO DRAG
VERSE 1
The floorboards sigh beneath my weight,
Old echoes bloom, they hesitate.
Every door I try to close
Breathes the dust of what I chose.
PRE-CHORUS
I hear the pulse I tried to kill—
Static songs beneath the still.
CHORUS
How can I move when the past pulls tight,
Threads of yesterday knot through the night?
I lean toward the light but it won’t turn black
Every step I take, the past drags me back.
VERSE 2
Photographs with broken eyes,
Flicker blue in the machine sky.
My shadow bends to their refrain,
Names I lost still speak my name.
PRE-CHORUS
I taste the rust of what I’ve been,
A loop that starts where it should end.
CHORUS
How can I move when the past pulls tight,
Threads of yesterday knot through the night?
I lean toward the light but it won’t turn black
Every step I take, the past drags me back.
BRIDGE
Glitches in the heartbeat,
A memory that won’t reboot.
I walk in circles,
The future waits, but the echo won’t mute.
OUTRO
The floorboards sigh beneath my weight,
Still carrying what I can’t negate.
I reach for tomorrow,
But the past still whispers—wait.