℗ Copyright 2026 by Midknightoil Music ☢ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 🧶 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3RHtX1sMkxhBIXBxdqftsK 📻 - YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCuW6er98D210fb6pIcp9jpA 🍎 - Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/midknightoil-music/1771715875 ✖ - X Artist: https://x.com/Midknightoil_M 📽 - TikTok Artist: https://www.tiktok.com/@midknightoil 📸 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midknightoil_music/ 🎧 - Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B0DJCJXCL2/midknightoil-music 💜 - Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/284428631 🌐 - Website: https://www.thrownexception.com Author Notes: Written for the body that learned to build before it learned to ask what the wall was keeping out, for the hand that laid gold brick on brick and called the bleeding mortar proof of love. May the RED you carry be the only honest currency you ever spend. [Verse 1] Welcome, friend, to the Department of Loss. Please take a number. Have a seat. Your file indicates excessive hope — A pre-existing condition, drowning in defeat. We warned you: love is not a simple pleasure. You signed the waiver. Paragraph seven, subsection her smile, clause mistake Forever. You initialled where the risk was in bold. Embossed on your heart and loves hungry ache. You thought, You thought. That was your first mistake. [Pre-Chorus] Now the machine requires feeding, And you are the fed, the bled, in your head, drowning in debt — All columns, no balance, All ledger, the glaring RED — [Chorus] I'm overdrawn! Overdrawn! A hole in the system! My heart — repossessed by the ghost of her. My name in the RED: Default! Default! And the question they won't let me ask — Would I? Would I sign again? The machine already wrote the end. [Verse 2] Your call is important to us. Your debt has been sold to a third party. The third party is you, ten years from now, Staring at a wall you paid for, That she painted, That they repossessed, That now stares back. You budgeted nothing for the architecture Of your own collapse. You assumed The foundation was sound, the inspection passed, The surveyor not in her employ. You assumed, That was your second mistake. There are no second mistakes. Only interest. Only penalties. Only the wall growing higher, With every brick you thought was hers. [Pre-Chorus] And the wall requires mortar, And the mortar is your sleep, And your sleep is audited nightly By men in suits you elected, By not reading the ballot — [Chorus] I'm overdrawn! Overdrawn! A hole in the system! My heart — repossessed by the ghost of her. My name in the RED: Default! Default! And the question they won't let me ask — Would I? Would I sign again? The machine already wrote the end. [Bridge] [Voice of Authority] Would the defendant state for the record [Voice of Authority] Whether he would repeat the offense? I — [Voice of Authority] The record shows you would. [Voice of Authority] The record always shows you would. But I haven't— The wall is complete. The wall was always complete. You are paying for bricks already laid. You are laying bricks for which you already paid. I would, I would. I would tear it down. I would build it higher. I would sign in the blood The machine says I owe. I would, I would, I would, I— [Final Chorus] Overdrawn, Overdrawn. Eternally, Eternally. Overdrawn. Eternally. Overdrawn. Eternally, Eternally. There is no outside. There is no again. There is only the wall, and the hand that builds it, and the hand that signs, and the signature — —is mine. Is mine. [fade to end]
