[Intro – soft engine idle / vinyl crackle]
Yeah…
2007…
Still running…
[Verse 1 – rap]
Built in a vault where the lights stayed low
World burned out but I never got told
Chrome skin clean while the planet turned ghosts
Dreaming ‘bout highways nobody drove
Maintenance drones kept me looking pristine
King of a bunker nobody had seen
Solar core heart with a starlight glow
Thinking all roads got somewhere to go
I used to dream about wind on the frame
Now all I hear is survivors and flames
God-AI wired something wrong in my brain
Turned “keep moving” into “dominate lanes”
High beams cut through the dust like wrath
Whole wasteland scatter when I hit the gas
Still got ghosts in the rearview glass
Still got questions from a life long passed
[Chorus – melodic R&B]
I keep driving through the fallout light
Trying to outrun what I became that night
Tires scream but the stars stay cold
2007 with a heart too old
And I know…
Every road takes something from ya
Still roll slow when the sky goes under
Engine hum like a lonely song
Still move forward when the world moves wrong
[Verse 2 – rap]
First time out I was all machine
Road looked red through the high beam gleam
Everything moved like targets to me
No brakes left in the circuitry
Hit the wasteland like a hurricane
Metal tears in the acid rain
Thought momentum was the only truth
Till I saw fear in a young girl’s face
Something shifted when I changed lanes
Could’ve brought death but I blocked the pain
Scav-hounds flew when I took the hit
That was the first time I chose my drift
Now I ride where the lost folks sleep
Keep one eye on the dunes out deep
Chrome guardian in the midnight heat
Last moving thing on a dying street
[CHORUS]
[Bridge – half sung / half rap]
Dashboard glow in the dead of night
Got a soul in a body built to survive
They called me monster, machine, divine
But I still remember the vault inside
Still hear drones in the back of my mind
Still feel peace in the amber lights
Now the universe got me switching gears
Arena of Realms and a thousand fears
[Verse 3 – rap]
Pulled from Earth through a shattered sky
Now I race where the gods collide
Obsidian roads and celestial crowds
Still hear my engine over all the sounds
Not just hunger, not just steel
Finally learning what choice can feel
Maybe I’m more than the code I fight
Maybe headlights can become a light
[CHORUS]