Track 7
Merge Conflict
System Integrity
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A breakup song wrapped in version control metaphors. Tender, conflicted, and inevitably divergent.
Lyrics
[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
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