Hecaton Signal

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Steel lungs hum where the war drums ended

Ghost in the chrome, yeah my past got amended

Used to be flesh, now the code got embedded

Heart still beats but the signal’s suspended

They rebuilt me—call it mercy or prison

Every memory sliced with a surgical precision

Deunan’s voice? That’s the only thing livin’

Through the static of a soul they mechanically written

I don’t sleep, I just idle in pain

Every thought like a glitch in the frame

Hundred arms but I still can’t contain

All the blood that was washed from my name

I was human… now I’m classified weapon

Emotion redacted, aggression a blessing

They call it “peace” but it feels like repression

When your free will’s just a line in a section

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I’m the Hecaton signal, fractured and split

Mind in the system but I won’t submit

They took my face but I’m still in the fight

Ghost in the armor, I’m reclaimin’ my right

I’m the war they buried, I’m the code that resists

Every chain in my circuit gettin’ crushed in my fist

If I’m just a machine, why I feel like this?

Why her name hit harder than a ballistic kiss?

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Nanites crawl where my veins used to run

Every upgrade another piece undone

They can map out fear, calculate what I’ve done

But they can’t simulate who I’ve become

See, I remember the dirt, the blood, the screams

Not just clean-cut optimized dreams

Utopia’s built on controlled extremes

But freedom don’t live in manufactured schemes

They cloned the mind, tried to copy the man

Turned love into data they barely understand

You can’t quantify what we had in your plans

I’ll break every limit you programmed in hand

Override protocol—cut the leash

Let the chaos inside me breach

Every locked emotion I’ll release

Till the silence finally finds some peace

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If I’m just parts… why do I bleed?

If I’m just code… why do I need?

Her voice in the void, pullin’ me through

Only real thing in a world untrue

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I’m the Hecaton signal, fractured and split

Mind in the system but I won’t submit

They took my face but I’m still in the fight

Ghost in the armor, I’m reclaimin’ my right

I’m the war they buried, I’m the code that resists

Every chain in my circuit gettin’ crushed in my fist

If I’m just a machine, why I feel like this?

Why her name hit harder than a ballistic kiss?

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Call me weapon… call me ghost… call me scar

But I’m still the man beneath who we are

Even stripped down to wires and light…

I remember what it means to fight.