[Verse 1]
Saw the past on a pixel screen
Red rewind like a guillotine
Hit undo on the worst of me
Thought I’d hack my own history (hah)
Fixed that fight in the parking lot
Pulled the words that hurt you a lot
Saved my job, saved our first date
Little edits in the code of fate
[Pre-Chorus]
Every click felt holy
Every change felt clean
But the echo started folding
In the corners of the scene
[Chorus]
I’m a timeline surgeon, cut by cut
Stitching up days that I already cut
Turn back time till the clock hands bleed
Didn’t see the future breaking under my feet
I’m a timeline surgeon, one by one
Fix my past till the past is gone
Now the road ahead’s a glitching screen
‘Cause I broke the frame around my dream (yeah)
[Verse 2]
Walked outside, this was not my town
Same old streets, different names on the ground
Your face there, but you don’t know mine
All our memories reassigned
Mom’s okay but my brother’s ghost
Breath I saved came at someone’s cost
Every cure had a hidden side
Every edit ate another life
[Pre-Chorus]
Every fix felt slower
Every win felt wrong
All the shadows growing longer
Under futures overdrawn
[Chorus]
I’m a timeline surgeon, cut by cut
Stitching up days that I already cut
Turn back time till the clock hands bleed
Didn’t see the future breaking under my feet
I’m a timeline surgeon, one by one
Fix my past till the past is gone
Now the road ahead’s a glitching screen
‘Cause I broke the frame around my dream (hey)
[Bridge]
[beat drops to swung half-time, dirty bass, chopped horns]
Can’t ctrl+z the fallout
Can’t mute what the world shouts
Every second that I steal back
Leaves a crack, leaves a crack, leaves a crack (woah)
Tried to play god with a pocket watch
Now I’m running from the things I botched
Time don’t care ‘bout my regret
It just counts what I forget
[Chorus]
I’m a timeline surgeon, cut by cut
Stitching up days that I already cut
Turn back time till the clock hands bleed
Didn’t see the future breaking under my feet
I’m a timeline surgeon, one by one
Fixed my past till my fate came undone
Now tomorrow’s just a scrambled dream
And I’m trapped in the holes
In the holes of the scene