[Intro — spoken / fragmented] Signal one… Signal two… Do you hear me? Not yet. Not yet. [Verse 1] I left a note in the radio tower Folded small between the wires For the girl who sings a hundred years from now With my old hunger in her fire She won’t know my name at first She’ll only know the bend Of a melody she thinks she dreamed Coming through her hands again [Pre-Chorus] Old language in a new machine Mother tongue in neon blue Every song that leaves the body Finds another body too [Chorus] Your future has my voice Even when you change the key Even when you cut the tape And make a stranger out of me Your future has my voice Not because I own the flame But somewhere in your borrowed light My echo learns your name [Verse 2] Daughters of daughters will dance in rooms I will never live to see With silver painted on their eyes And old words underneath They’ll sample my breath, misunderstand my grief Turn my sorrow into gold Sing me wrong and sing me bright And carry what they hold [Pre-Chorus] I am not asking to be worshipped I am not asking to be known Sometimes the seed forgets the flower Still the flower has grown [Chorus] Your future has my voice Even when you change the key Even when you cut the tape And make a stranger out of me Your future has my voice Not because I own the flame But somewhere in your borrowed light My echo learns your name [Post-Chorus — layered voices] Transmit me Translate me Lose me Need me Break me Remake me Call me Through the frequency [Verse 3] My child sleeps beside tomorrow With a screen-light on her face She will not inherit all my countries But she may inherit grace I hum a song my mother carried From a room before the war Now it flickers in a circuit And becomes something more [Pre-Chorus] Old lullaby, new satellite Old river, digital rain Every voice becomes a doorway Every doorway leaves a name [Chorus] Your future has my voice Even when you change the key Even when you cut the tape And make a stranger out of me Your future has my voice Not because I own the flame But somewhere in your borrowed light My echo learns your name [Bridge] Will you know where I came from? Maybe not, maybe no Will you hear the little village Underneath the studio? Will you know the border weather? Will you know the velvet room? Will you know I sang through silence Just to leave a path for you? Maybe I become a whisper Maybe I become a chord Maybe I become the hunger You are reaching toward I do not need a monument I do not need a shrine I only need the signal To survive the end of mine [Breakdown — spoken / sung fragments] Tower to tower Daughter to daughter Static to body Water to water Czech into English English to air Name into echo Echo to prayer Do you hear me? Not as I was. Do you need me? Maybe because. [Final Chorus] Your future has my voice Even when you change the key Even when you cut the tape And make a stranger out of me Your future has my voice Not because I own the flame But somewhere in your borrowed light My echo learns your name [Final Post-Chorus] Transmit me Translate me Lose me Need me Break me Remake me Call me Through the frequency [Outro] And when they ask you where it started You may never know the place But if your song looks toward the dark And does not turn away If your mouth finds an old road If your hands begin to shake If you feel someone singing with you From a century away That is not the past returning That is not a ghostly choice That is your future opening And somewhere, it has my voice.
