A brief silence opens into bass, organ, and a locked heavy pulse. Chanted Om marks the threshold, a drum surge tightens the groove, and the main riff settles in as the song’s sustained forward contract before any verse arrives.

Lead vocal enters over the driving band, addressing father and mother, then narrowing into the dark-world complaint. The thrice-called とししゅん refrain takes the center, answered by the inner-voice lines and the first path charge: choose the road yourself.

A short instrumental bridge reloads the same form. The second parental address returns with harder images—sickness, calamity, living and dying as hell—then the refrain proves itself again, closing on a shifted charge: advance the road yourself.

Weight lifts as guitar claims the foreground over the still-running groove. After the solo peak the band holds while a new lyric span arrives—healthy birds, cheerful beasts, the question of why we wander—delaying the next full verse return.

The third verse restores the parental address and winter-world complaint, face of a bodhisattva and asura belly. The とししゅん refrain lands a final time, sealed by the last path line: seize the road yourself.

Vocals drop away; the settled grid and riff carry a long instrumental runway. Near the end the pattern loosens, motor hold recedes, and a final band hit decays into terminal silence.

The track is one held motor argument: three verse–refrain proofs around a central solo-and-aside break, then an extended riff exit.