CALIFORNIA 2099 [INTRO] California… two-zero-nine-nine. The coastline's gone. The satellites are watching. The city never sleeps. Welcome to the future. You are not connected. You are controlled. [VERSE 1] Black glass towers where the palm trees died, Chrome-plated angels on the freeway sides. The Hollywood sign runs a digital lie, While the last free signal burns in the sky. Electric rain on a poisoned street, Broken machines with a human heartbeat. No more names, just a barcode skin, Everybody's out, but nobody gets in. The desert's wired, the ocean's red, There's a thousand voices inside my head. The system says that we're doing fine, But there's a dead transmission on the county line. [PRE-CHORUS] Kill the lights! Cut the feed! There's a pulse underneath the machine! Shut it down! Break the code! We're the error they can't control! [CHORUS] CALIFORNIA 2099! Burn the future, cross the line! CALIFORNIA 2099! Dead machines and electric minds! We don't sleep! We don't kneel! We are the glitch that they can't conceal! California! Two-zero-nine-nine! [VERSE 2] Venice Beach is a hologram, Silicon prophets sell who I am. A thousand drones in the midnight air, Scanning the faces of those who dare. Las Vegas flickers beyond the state, A million transactions deciding our fate. There's a nightclub buried beneath the ground, Where the outlaw frequencies shake the town. Concrete lungs and a carbon sky, We learned to live where the wild things die. But deep below where the grid runs cold, There's a human rhythm they can't download. [PRE-CHORUS] Kill the lights! Cut the feed! There's a pulse underneath the machine! Shut it down! Break the code! Let the underground explode! [CHORUS] CALIFORNIA 2099! Burn the future, cross the line! CALIFORNIA 2099! Dead machines and electric minds! We don't sleep! We don't kneel! We are the glitch that they can't conceal! California! Two-zero-nine-nine! [INDUSTRIAL BREAKDOWN] No gods! No grid! No future they can sell! No gods! No grid! We built our own hell! Do you remember the sun? Before the screens. Before the walls. Before they put a price on everything. There was a place called California. There still is. We are still here. [BUILD-UP] One signal. One spark. One city burning in the dark. No permission. No escape. No more living in a digital cage. Can you feel it? Can you feel it? WE ARE THE FUTURE THEY COULDN'T ERASE! [FINAL DROP] CALIFORNIA 2099! Let the whole damn skyline ignite! CALIFORNIA 2099! We are alive in the dead of the night! Break the circuit! Crack the sky! Let the sleeping satellites die! No more silence! No more lies! WE ARE THE GLITCH IN PARADISE! California! California! TWO-ZERO-NINE-NINE! California! California! WE'RE STILL ALIVE! [OUTRO] The grid is falling. The signal is free. No more watching. No more machines telling us who to be. California… We survived the future. End transmission.
