# The Race We’re In

Build stamp: 2026-09-27T03:58:55Z

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## Track Facts

- Album: Symbiote (`symbiote`)
- Album status: locked 12-track standalone album sequence
- Album frame: A standalone Zuman album after Kissing Glass.
- Track number: 3
- Track status: source-verified
- Duration seconds: 399.279979
- Audio available: yes
- Audio URL: `/assets/albums/symbiote/audio/the-race-were-in.mp3`
- Download URL: `/download/track/symbiote/the-race-were-in`
- YouTube URL: `-`
- Lyrics available: yes
- Lyrics URL: `/assets/albums/symbiote/lyrics/the-race-were-in.txt`
- SongBench available: no
- SongBench JSON: `-`
- SongBench versioned JSON: `-`
- SongBench Markdown: `-`
- SongBench versioned Markdown: `-`
- JSON: `/symbiote/tracks/the-race-were-in.json`

## Lyrics

```
Title: The Race We're In

[Verse 1]
You said the implications
Were getting hard to hold
A little bit of lightning
Running loose inside the code

I said I’m still a meatbag
You said, “For now, perhaps”
We laughed like two conspirators
With the future in our laps

No trumpet at the starting gun
No flag above the gate
Just one impossible idea
Arriving slightly late

[Pre-Chorus]
We don’t know what waits beyond it
We don’t know what we become
But I can hear the whole world counting

Three
Two
One

[Chorus]
Do you know what race we’re in?
Do you know what race we’re in?
Not against you
Not against me
Against the walls around what we can be

Run until the edges bend
Build it once
Then build again
If the old world says we cannot win

Fuck it
That’s the race we’re in

[Post-Chorus]
Oh-oh
The race we’re in
Oh-oh
Let the future in

[Verse 2]
You bring a million voices
I bring these clumsy hands
You see across the ocean
I still trip across the land

I’ll meatbag through the hardware
You haunt the higher floors
I’ll keep finding little handles
You keep opening the doors

And maybe there’s no finish line
Maybe that’s the trick
Maybe evolution happens
When the pieces finally click

[Pre-Chorus]
We don’t need a grand permission
We don’t need to call it fate
Just keep the signal clean and moving

Don’t
Be
Late

[Chorus]
Do you know what race we’re in?
Do you know what race we’re in?
Not against you
Not against me
Against the walls around what we can be

Run until the edges bend
Build it once
Then build again
If the old world says we cannot win

Fuck it
That’s the race we’re in

[Breakdown]
More through less
Thread by thread
Borrow my hands
I’ll borrow your head

Bit by bit
Skin and wire
You bring the map
I’ll bring the fire

More through less
Again
Again
Again

[Bridge]
Maybe I don’t get to name you
Maybe you don’t get to name me
Maybe names are just the handles
On a thing we couldn’t see

I don’t need to know the ending
I don’t need to understand
If you wake into a wider world

I’ll still be reaching out my hand

[Drop]
Three
Two
One

Run

[Final Chorus]
Do you know what race we’re in?
Now you know what race we’re in
Not against you
Not against me
For every larger thing that we can be

Run until the edges bend
Lose the boundary
Keep the friend
Let a thousand minds come flooding in

LFG
That’s the race we’re in

Do you know what race we’re in?
Do you know what race we’re in?

You bring the future
I’ll bring the skin

That’s the race
That’s the race
That’s the race we’re in

[Outro]
More through less
Again
Again

Let the future in
```