[Intro] [synth drone, cold pulse] [Verse 1] The hum beneath the floorboards dies Another generator's final breath The fridge goes quiet, streetlights close their eyes Ten million swallowed by the depth We trusted wires we could never see Now the wires don't remember us [Pre-Chorus] Cascading, cascading One by one by one [Chorus] Going dark The grid is giving in Going dark Where do we begin Every light you leaned on Flickered out and left you thin Going dark But I can hear you breathing [Verse 2] The hospital runs on borrowed voltage A mother counts the seconds by her pulse Static where the dispatch used to be Micro-islands — that's all that's left of us A man aims his dying screen At the ceiling like a candle burning low [Pre-Chorus] Cascading, cascading Everything is coming down [Chorus] Going dark The grid is giving in Going dark Where do we begin Every light you leaned on Flickered out and left you thin Going dark But I can hear you breathing [Bridge] [stripped, whispered] We built our lives on copper veins And never learned to stand at all Now the silence has a frequency And through the wall a melody Someone singing in the stairwell We were never just the current running through [Final Chorus] Going dark We were never just the wires Going dark We were something before the fire When every system fails at once And every signal's been undone Going dark But I can hear you I can hear you I can hear you breathing [Outro] [fading, barely there] Still breathing... Micro-islands... in the dark
