Interlude
100dBs feat. Jay-Z Lyrics

The other night
Recently when I was doing some research for our upcoming discussion

While I was uh researchin' what were goin' to be discussin' today
While I was studying and trying to prepare for our upcoming talk

I came across a passage in a book that um
I stumbled upon a passage in a book

I think it uh really simplifies
I believe it simplifies

What the human administrative is talkin' about
What humans and organizations are generally discussing

And I learned that all things must come to an end
I came to the realization that everything has a finite life

It is an inevitable part of the cycle of resistance
It is a natural part of the cycle of opposition and struggle

All things must conclude
Everything must come to an end eventually

Take the analogy of a tree that grows in Brooklyn
Consider the example of a tree that grows in a city amidst the concrete and steel

Among the steel and the concrete
In the midst of the city's infrastructure

With all its glorious branches and leaves
With all of its magnificent branches and foliage

One day it too will pass on its legacy
One day it will also pass on its heritage

Through the seeds it dropped to the ground
Via the seeds that it dropped to the earth

And as the wind carries these seeds throughout wherever they might move
And when the wind spreads these seeds wherever they may go

A new life will begin for each one of them
A new life will start for each of those seeds

As they stand as a monument to the one that came before
As they function as a tribute to the previous tree

That came before that came before
The trees that came before it, and the ones before those

That came before that came before
The trees that came before it, and the ones before those