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Track 7

Merge Conflict

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A breakup song wrapped in version control metaphors. Tender, conflicted, and inevitably divergent.

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[Intro] "We started on the same line..." "Until everything diverged" [Verse 1] We wrote the start, so full of hope One shared repo, dreams in scope But somewhere deep in separate threads We lost the merge, we broke instead [Pre-Chorus 1] Pulling changes, side by side Till diff by diff, we split the ride No rebasing what we became Now even blame won't name the same [Chorus] We branched too far, now we can't combine We committed to different lines What once was clean is full of pain A merge conflict we can't explain We branched too far, can't reconcile Each patch we try just breaks the file You wrote your way, I coded mine Now we crash where we used to align [Verse 2] I read your logs, I saw the shift The silent edits in the drift You closed your loop, I stayed inside Now I compile with no guide [Pre-Chorus 2] Cherry-picked what we could fake Ignored the warnings, let it break But history keeps every trace Of how we lost this shared space [Chorus] We branched too far, now we can't combine We committed to different lines What once was clean is full of pain A merge conflict we can't explain We branched too far, can't reconcile Each patch we try just breaks the file You wrote your way, I coded mine Now we crash where we used to align [Bridge] "I thought you'd pull me back..." "I thought you'd wait for sync..." "But every time we pushed again" "The gap just made us sink" [Final Chorus] We branched too far, now it's too late No pull request can change our fate The love we had now throws exceptions Forked apart by new directions We branched too far, no final sign We committed to different lines And now this repo stays unclean A ghost commit where we had been [Outro] Goodbye (goodbye) To what we wrote Left behind In every note