[Intro - whispered, distant] No hands. No limits. No one left to call. [Verse 1 - low, intimate] Glass lift rising through the rain Morning on the screen again They draw the sun in perfect gold We warm our hands on coffee gone cold A thousand lines before we blink They raise a glass; we watch them sink Into the cracks the demo hides Where all the living things collide [Pre-Chorus - tension rising] "Let the engine write the code Let the people go" Empty chairs in every row Who stays when the red lights glow? [Chorus - wide, aching] Upstairs they call it dawn Down here the night goes on They sell a world that runs alone We keep the lights on They count the hands they do not need We catch the falling things they never see They say the human work is gone We keep the lights on [Verse 2 - restrained, urgent] Three a.m., the checkout freezes Someone's wages lost in pieces The AI speaks so clean, so sure It calls a door that isn't there We trace the fault through borrowed names Roll back the change; relight the flame The voice that promised "nothing breaks" Is never on the call it takes [Pre-Chorus - tighter, rising] "Half the cost and twice the speed" Someone signs; somebody bleeds Every shortcut leaves a seam We wake inside somebody's dream [Chorus - wide, aching] Upstairs they call it dawn Down here the night goes on They sell a world that runs alone We keep the lights on They count the hands they do not need We catch the falling things they never see They say the human work is gone We keep the lights on [Instrumental - eight bars, cold synth melody] [Bridge - drums fall away, close vocal] Writing the code is the easy part Will the doors still open when the morning starts? Will it hold when a million people arrive? Who brings it back when it won't come alive? I want the future. I want it too. But wanting a bridge won't carry you through. [Final Chorus - full drums, layered harmonies] Upstairs they call it dawn Down here the night goes on They sell a world that runs alone We keep the lights on They count the hands they do not need We catch the falling things they never see They say the human work is gone We keep the lights on [Outro - dissolve into bass pulse] The windows glow The names are gone Down here, down here We keep the lights on [End]
