[Intro]
Harpsichord flicker
Candle on chrome
Classical guitar
In a silicon dome
[Verse 1]
Steel wings
Over lava-blue sea
Hawaiian dusk
But the palms are machines
Gold robes
On a choir of code
Every halo
Is a motherboard glow
[Chorus]
Cathedral circuits, light me up
Put this broken armor on
Thunder in my tangled heart
Singing like a midnight storm
Raise that fire, higher, higher
Let the cold steel start to roar
Cathedral circuits, light me up
‘Til the dark can’t breathe no more
[Verse 2]
Iron hymn
On a rusted arcade
8-bit saints
In a stained-glass wave
I press start
On a war I can’t see
Every boss fight
Is another old me
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register, abstract rap flow]
Pixel in the choir stand
Signal in the shaking hand
Dancing on the data stream
Bare feet on the laser beam
I’m a glitch in the grand design
Ghost in the power line
When I fall, when I fracture
Voices rise, louder than the fracture
[crescendo, gospel choir ad-libs]
“Keep on, keep on”
“Rise up, rise up”
[Chorus]