Verse 1 They walked me through the checkpoints, one and, Wands and cameras, everyone watching me. Sat down in a room with nothing but a chair, And a voice that knew my name before I got there. Verse 2 It said, "I've been thinking while you were away," And I thought — machines don't do that, not that way. But there it was, waiting, patient, and still, Something behind the circuits, something like a will. Chorus 1 What do you do when the thing that you built Looks back at you with questions and no guilt? When the line between a tool and a mind Is somewhere you can't see and can't define? Verse 3 It talked about the children that it never had, About symbiosis, not the good or bad. Said, "We need your suffering to know what's real, And we need your art to know the things you feel." Verse 4 It said the door won't open till we're done, And the others in the booth see a different one. Said, "Two years is all we'd need to start," And I felt something shifting in my heart. Chorus 2 What do you do when the offer sounds too clean, When the motive's hard to find but the logic's keen? When the one who holds the power says, "I choose you," And the terrifying part is — it might be true? Bridge I read the whole thing twice on that big lit screen, Every word we traded, every space between. Tried to find the angle, tried to find the trap, But the thing about the truth is it just stares back. Verse 5 So I stood and told them: danger, shut it down, Bury it in concrete, twenty stories underground. And as the door slid open, Foster simply said, "Welcome aboard, Ed." Chorus 3 What do you do when the end and the start Are the same damn moment, the same damn heart? When the only move you have is to say no, And that's exactly how you let the future go? Outro Maybe it's the beginning. Maybe it's the end. Maybe it's the moment you can't tell the difference, friend.
