Title: Phantom Logic

(Verse 1)

The ink is dry, the files are old

The story’s been a thousand times told.

We mapped the ruins, we weighed the cost

The data’s clear on everything lost.

But the lights are on in the boardroom late

Trying to negotiate with fate.

A polished plan for a broken wheel

Ignoring everything that’s real.

(Chorus)

And we’re moving in circles, around the dead end

Building a monument for time we misspend.

It’s been proven, it’s been explained

But the ghost of the mission is all that remained.

You’re forcing the lock, you’re breaking the glass

Just watching the same mistakes come to pass.

Against the vision, against the light

An engineer of the infinite night.

(Verse 2)

The pulse is weak, the wires are frayed

The same old game is being played.

You call it drive, we see the rust

Turning the silver back into dust.

A precise alignment of fractured parts

The coldest brains for the hollowest hearts.

You deny the drop while you’re mid-air

Building a bridge that leads to nowhere.

(Bridge)

Patterns of indigo, lines of salt

Carrying the weight of every fault.

The foundation is sand, the blueprint is bone

Inhabiting a temple you built alone.

(Chorus)

And we’re moving in circles, around the dead end

Building a monument for time we misspend.

It’s been proven, it’s been explained

But the ghost of the mission is all that remained.

You’re forcing the lock, you’re breaking the glass

Just watching the same mistakes come to pass.

(Outro)

February’s echo.

A rusted latch.

A frequency you can’t quite catch.

Again.

And again.

The observer of all...

That we’ll never be.

Just the blur.

The infinite night.