Position Before the Current
The river. You can position before the current strengthens, or swim upstream after you're already depleted. Maintenance is cheap; repair is expensive.
Inspiration
Source: Blog post "Position Before the Current" about DBT's Coping Ahead skill applied through coherenceism lens.
Emotional Arc: - Recognition: We keep arriving too late, recovering instead of positioning - The insight: Alignment over Force has a temporal dimension—align with what's COMING - The shift: From rescue operations to reading terrain - The wisdom: Position before the current strengthens
Key Images/Phrases: - "The river doesn't care about our assumptions" - "Maintenance is cheap. Repair is expensive." - "Position before the current strengthens" - "Swimming upstream after you're already underwater" - "Reading the terrain ahead"
Feel: Rest-rhythm river energy—contemplative but with quiet resolve. Not passive acceptance, but active positioning. The calm competence of someone who reads water.
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Style Prompt
Prog-rock meets grunge. Male vocals, introspective delivery. Atmospheric clean guitar with reverb and tremolo building to crunchy power chords. Melodic bass becomes lead voice in bridge. Half-time verses with drums behind the beat, four-on-floor chorus drives forward. 92 BPM. Slow burn structure with 12-bar ambient intro. Rest-rhythm river: embodied wisdom, breath-like pacing, space between notes. Patient intensity, heavy but controlled.
Lyrics
### Structure: The Slow Burn
