[Intro — tape hiss + distorted guitar]
Black boots on concrete,
red lights cutting through the rain,
I don't remember coming here,
but I remember the pain.
Static in my headset,
my heartbeat keeps the time,
every hallway looks familiar,
but none of it feels mine.
Midnight shift, eyes low,
ghosts moving in the smoke,
badge shining on my chest,
but I barely know the role.
They tell me, “Stay alert,”
so I never close my eyes,
every camera catches shadows,
every shadow wears my disguise.
I walk beneath the streetlights,
with the city breathing slow,
trying to find the memory
of the person I don't know.
HIGH THREAT,
walking through static,
dead eyes, black sky,
all automatic.
FALSE MEMORY,
tell me what I forgot.
Was I protecting everyone,
or protecting what I'm not?
Hear a voice behind me,
but nobody's standing there,
I turn around in silence,
feel a hand against the air.
The footage starts to glitch,
the hallway bends and shakes,
I see myself on camera,
but the image never blinks.
Same boots, same black armor,
same cold eyes beneath the mask,
standing in an empty doorway
like I've already been there.
Screen cuts to black,
then comes back with a name,
three letters burned in red,
and somehow it's my name.
I don't remember signing up,
I don't remember the night,
I don't remember who I was
before I learned to fight.
Every siren sounds familiar,
every red light feels like home,
every time the radio crackles,
I feel less alone.
HIGH THREAT,
walking through static,
heart cold, mind fractured,
nothing feels automatic.
FALSE MEMORY,
erase another frame,
if you delete the evidence,
do I disappear the same?
I keep a photograph
inside a pocket near my heart,
someone standing next to me,
but their face has been torn apart.
I know I used to love them,
I can feel it in the scars,
but every time I say their name,
the tape forgets who they are.
Maybe I was protecting them,
maybe they were protecting me,
maybe I became the monster
that I thought I'd never be.
The city keeps on breathing,
while the night forgets my face,
I keep walking through the rain
like I'm trapped inside a chase.
I hear the radio whisper,
“Do you copy? Are you there?”
I reach toward the speaker,
but there's nobody to hear.
Then the voice becomes my own:
“You never made it back.”
The signal fades to nothing,
and the whole world turns to black.
DON'T TRUST THE TAPE.
DON'T TRUST THE SCREEN.
DON'T TRUST THE MEMORY
OF EVERYTHING YOU'VE SEEN.
HIGH THREAT,
standing underneath the light,
I spent my whole life guarding
what was already gone tonight.
FALSE MEMORY,
tell me who I used to be.
If the tape erased my past,
was there ever really me?
Black boots on concrete,
red lights through the rain,
I don't remember coming here,
but I remember the pain.
Maybe I'm still standing.
Maybe I already died.
Maybe every night I wake up
is another false rewind.
The camera keeps recording.
The hallway stays the same.
The screen flashes one last
and underneath it is my name.