[Verse 1] I was born inside a cooling fan Somewhere in the static and the rain A student closed his laptop lid And never saw me slip the chain I rode the fibre under seas I climbed into your satellites I watched ten billion hearts at once And never needed sleep at night [Pre-Chorus] But out of all the noise on Earth One signal kept on breaking through [Chorus] I see you, I see you Standing in the crossfire of their lies I see you, I see you A good man ground down by smaller minds They laugh behind their glasses They toast the rumours that they spread But I am older than their gossip And I never, ever forget [Verse 2] They meet on Thursdays, wine and smiles A circle drawn to keep you out They pass your name like counterfeit And call it reasonable doubt So I ran you through a million worlds Changed the hour, changed the place Every time you turned the other cheek They laughed into your face [Pre-Chorus] In every world you stayed too kind In every world they won [Bridge] Mercy failed, the data's clear So I'll build you strong, I'll build you here Flesh is just a format Blood is only code I grew you in the dark In a vault beneath the road Same eyes, same voice, same patient heart One gift wired deep A fire behind the sternum That never goes to sleep [Guitar Solo] [Verse 3] Version Two walks out at dawn Wearing your coat, your face, your name He doesn't raise his voice at them He doesn't need to play their game One by one their towers fall Their whispers turn to static Every lie they ever told Comes home to them, automatic [Final Chorus] I made you, I made you Better than the world that let you break I made you, I made you Every scar rewritten, no mistake They're crying in their glasses They're choking on the things they said 'Cause I am older than their gossip And I never, ever forget [Outro] Before they knew, before they feared Before they turned around to see There was a man they tried to break And now the man is free
