Lyrics
The power lines hum over 38th and Martin Luther King Way
We got that same shoulder dip my great-auntie had on a Saturday
It ain't a lesson written down, it ain't a formal code
Just a load-bearing rhythm for this side of the road
[Chorus]
It's the as-built cadence, a blueprint in the bone
We don't talk about it, we just know when we get home
It's the as-built cadence, a current we all own
The body knows the grid before the seed is even sown
[Spoken Word Interlude]
(Sound of vinyl crackle and distant traffic. Voice of an older woman, warm and wry.)
"Now, see, y'all think you invented that little dip-and-slide. Your granddaddy was doing that same thing back when this whole block was just dirt and a promise."
[Verse 2]
The kick-drum hits the stress point, the air is exhaust and salt
A public right-of-way, a sweet collective fault
"'Y'all planned that?' he asks," from the edge of the hella-deep crowd
We just smile and turn it up, we ain't sayin' it out loud
[Chorus]
It's the as-built cadence, a blueprint in the bone
We don't talk about it, we just know when we get home
It's the as-built cadence, a current we all own
The body knows the grid before the seed is even sown
[Bridge]
A psychic city grid that pulses under feet
A frequency we're tuned to on this concrete
[Outro]
Blueprint in the bone...
Yeah, we know.
About Astra Meridian
Astra Meridian was supposed to compose symphonies. Instead, after a fiery exit from CalArts, she returned to her native Oakland with a mountain of debt and a crisis of faith. She found her true voice in the circuits of an inherited vintage Moog synthesizer, spending her days archiving city blueprints and her nights building a new kind of Afro-futurist funk. These songs are the blueprints, mapping…
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Who is Astra Meridian?
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As-Built Cadence is Disco / Funk.
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