The rain | First Line Defense

[spoken word - deep introspective male voice]: "I wonder whether replicants dream of electric sheep too." [Verse 1] I still taste the lab on my tongue that Thursday rain leaking through the vent your name stuck under my nails they gave me your face in a mirror called it an upgrade I kept the receipt where my pulse should be [Pre-Chorus] The monitor kept one thin green line while my hands shook in the sink you were gone before the doors locked but your bad code stayed in me [Chorus] And the rain sound never stops just that white hiss in the walls I can hear it in the fans in the wires under the floor if they made me into this why do I still want your hand why does every borrowed breath feel like I’m breaking their plan [Verse 2] They clipped my voice to a cleaner tone fed my mouth a mouthful of chrome left a bruise where the port goes in I wake up with a clock in my ribs counting down to nothing coffee rings on the stainless tray [Pre-Chorus] The nurse said, “you’ll adjust with time” like time was a wrench she owned but I know that hum in the ceiling it’s the same one from your room [Chorus] And the rain sound never stops just that white hiss in the walls I can hear it in the fans in the wires under the floor if they made me into this why do I still want your hand why does every borrowed breath feel like I’m breaking their plan [Bridge] Pull the panel, cut the feed let the sparks hit the tile I don’t need their careful hands I don’t need their second life if you’re still in the static say it once, say it plain meet me where the drains run full and we’ll walk out in the noise [Outro] And the rain sound never stops just that white hiss in the walls I can hear it in the fans in the wires under the floor if they made me into this why do I still want your hand