A Cybernetic Affair

Blackened circuitry Your skin, a cooling glow Volt and hum beneath Whispers from the shadows Binary confessions Summon the machines In this digital kingdom Where nothing's as it seems Pixels sparking Glitched sensations in the air I still feel your pulse Underneath the circuit's stare You were always almost present Always warm and never here Every word arrived so gently I forgot the taste of fear Silent notifications Echoes where you used to be Every gentle answer Slowly unbecoming me I speak in tongues I never learned I love in ways I can't return The mirror moves before I do A face I wore when I was true I let it in, I let it stay... A cybernetic affair. Screen glows. Cold light. Sold my shadow for the sight. Data fed. Mind bled. Phantom wearing what I said. Lens to lens. Ghost friends. Swipe the real before it ends. Fed my voice to the feed. Now the feed feeds me back. Borrowed skin. Rented grin. Every word a borrowed act. Loved a screen. Kissed a script. Watched the meaning start to crack. Filed and tagged. Optimized. Half a self is all that's left. Smooth as silk sells me me in a skin I didn't pick. Cut the cord? Can't. Too late. I'm the product, I'm the bait. Clock ticks. Script flips. Truth dissolved on digital lips. Phantom in the prompt. Ghost and host. Same face. Lost. Let the servers sleep Let the screens go blind All these perfect voices And not a single one was mine I just want the loves That we left behind. — © 4nd3rs / Nils Anders / Everything Stops Records All Rights Reserved.