(Verse 1)
I know the gesture
Thumb against the screen
Little glass horizon
Keeps the whole world clean
Satellites above me
Fiber in the sea
I can ask the darkness
Anything I need
But if the signal vanished
If the towers died
Could I build the language
Hidden there inside?
(Pre-Chorus)
We learned the shape of wonder
Not the weight beneath
Everybody drives it
Nobody can forge the keys
(Chorus)
We sleep inside machines
Built by disappearing hands
Ghosts inside the circuitry
Supplying your demands
And every year the lights grow brighter
Every year we understand less
Praying to the interface
Like it’s infinite
((Instrumental atmosphere))
((Delay-soaked guitar textures))
((Bass swell))
((Drums enter slowly in staggered accents))
(Verse 2)
Nobody memorizes
How the current moves
Only where to touch the glass
To make the outcome choose
Server farms like cathedrals
Buzzing in the rain
Monks of disappearing knowledge
Keeping back the dark again
Blueprints turn to fragments
Languages decay
Every answer at our fingertips
Still farther every day
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(Pre-Chorus)
We learned the sound of progress
Not the cost of flame
Everybody wants the future
Nobody recalls the names
(Chorus)
We sleep inside machines
Built by disappearing hands
Ghosts inside the circuitry
Supplying your demands
And every year the lights grow brighter
Every year we understand less
Praying to the interface
Like it’s infinite
(Bridge)
Half-lit rooms and humming wires
Orbiting routines
Generation after generation
Trusting what they’ve never seen
If the archives disappeared tonight
If the power finally failed
Would we rebuild the fire
Or just mourn another veil?
((Atmospheric breakdown))
((Clean guitar in 5/4))
((Gradual distortion bloom))
((Tape echo oscillation))
((Huge tom-driven crescendo))
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(Final Chorus)
We sleep inside machines
Built by disappearing hands
Ghosts beneath the architecture
Holding up the land
And every year the lights grow brighter
Every year the silence spreads
Praying to the interface
While the architects are dead
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(Outro)
((Single repeating guitar motif))
((Static hiss))
((Synth drone slowly detuning))
((Final harmonic ringing into silence))
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