Born Beneath the Neon

There's something in the ones and zeros, A madness in the code, Where dreamers dream of being heroes, On streets where neon glows. And the hackers black out city skylines, Two lines of numbers going rogue, Ghosts living in the mainframe, With revolution in their soul. Chrome in the bones, wires in veins, Everybody selling freedom in chains, A better body hanging in the store, If you've got enough to pay for more. [Pre-Chorus] Prosthetics punch twice harder, Lift twice as much with steel, But the dollars you need are hard to touch, When survival's all that's real. Every upgrade has a price tag, Every heartbeat comes with debt, You can buy another arm tonight... But you can't buy what you've lost yet. [Chorus] Something in the ones and zeros, Calling from the underground, We were born beneath the neon, Where the broken don't stay down. Run wild through electric shadows, Hear the sirens sing our name, We're more than flesh and circuitry, We're the glitch they couldn't tame. [Verse 2] Rain falls down on holograms, Oil shines beneath our feet, Street docs stitch forgotten souls, Back together in the heat. Corporations own tomorrow, Selling dreams in little chips, While kids with stolen cyberdecks, Rewrite empires fingertip by fingertip. She got titanium knuckles, He got optics burning red, Both chasing one more payday, Before another friend winds dead. [Pre-Chorus] Prosthetics punch twice harder, Lift twice as much with steel, But the dollars you need are hard to touch, When hunger bends what's real. The rich become immortal, The poor become the parts, Chrome can rebuild a shattered spine... But never mend a shattered heart. [Chorus] Something in the ones and zeros, Calling from the underground, We were born beneath the neon, Where the broken don't stay down. Run wild through electric shadows, Hear the sirens sing our name, We're more than flesh and circuitry, We're the glitch they couldn't tame. [Bridge] (Female – whispered) Wake up... Jack in... Don't trust the light. (Male) The city feeds on desperate souls, Turns blood to data every night. (Both) Zero... One... Zero... One... Are we alive or just programmed to run? Black ICE rising, Firewalls scream, Everybody's chasing somebody else's dream. [Final Chorus] There's something in the ones and zeros, A madness they can't erase, Where dreamers still become the heroes, Even in this dying place. Hack the sky and break the system, Let the rogue code flood the veins, If this city's built on stolen dreams... We'll steal tomorrow back again. [Outro] Neon fading... Servers hum... One last heartbeat. Zero. One. Run.