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**[Intro]** Dust in the strobes, code in the choir Black glass desert, copper on fire --- **[Verse 1]** Steps cut patterns in a locked-time floor Neon sigils on a rusted door Skin on the drum, blood in the grid Every buried pulse we were told to keep hid Oud line carving through the smoke like a knife Iron and cedar in a crooked life My shadow splits in the fracture of light One in the circuit, one in the night --- **[Pre-Chorus]** I hear the glitch in the call of the drum I feel the sway as the program comes undone Your eyes lock time with the kick and the snare Everything distant coils in the air --- **[Chorus]** Break me out of this body, this room Into the circuit of sand and perfume Spirals of rhythm that fracture my mind Belly of the bass and the oud intertwined Every small error a doorway we tear Cracking the pattern, corrupting the prayer Pull me where logic and fever combine Erase my name while you’re stealing my time --- **[Verse 2]** Coins on your hips spell a coded design Silver constellations fall out of line Finger on a string bends the sky off-key Microtone stairways under my feet Ghost cities flicker in the power mains Old vows crawling through the data veins I taste the metal, the static, the heat Two broken worlds on the same heartbeat --- **[Pre-Chorus]** I hear the glitch in the call of the drum I feel the sway as the program comes undone Your eyes lock time with the kick and the snare Everything distant coils in the air --- **[Chorus]** Break me out of this body, this room Into the circuit of sand and perfume Spirals of rhythm that fracture my mind Belly of the bass and the oud intertwined Every small error a doorway we tear Cracking the pattern, corrupting the prayer Pull me where logic and fever combine Erase my name while you’re stealing my time --- **[Bridge]** Slow down the clock till it stutters and scrapes Let every misfire redraw all the shapes Fold me in half between signal and ghost Stretch me on measures that never quite close Hand on the skin, hand on the dial We live between worlds for a terrible while Each broken loop is a portal we spin I step through the cut where the waveform is thin --- **[Outro]** Dust in the strobes, code in the choir We never leave, we just change empires