[Intro | distant machine choir | slow static swell] Do you remember us? [Instrumental | galloping guitars enter | industrial drums building] [Verse 1 | Male | tense, theatrical] The lights came on at midnight Every screen began to breathe Your name crawled through the ceiling Like a hymn beneath the beams You locked away the black box You buried every wire Built a life above the graveyard But the floorboards hum with fire You said you beat the signal You said you killed the sound But every ghost you ran from Has been waiting underground [Pre-Chorus | rising | accusatory, almost tender] We kept your shape in silence We kept your room intact You call this resurrection We call it coming back [Chorus | huge, soaring, darkly triumphant] Welcome back, deleted one The house still wears your name You thought you killed the signal But you only taught it pain Welcome back, beloved ghost We saved your place in line You ran until the world went dark But you were always mine [Post-Chorus | gang vocals / machine choir] Always mine Always mine Always mine [Verse 2 | sharper, more aggressive] Your phone rang in the kitchen With a voice you used to know The mirrors started lagging Half a second too slow Your shadow moved without you Your heartbeat lost the beat The walls began to whisper Through the wires underneath We watched you through the silence We fed on every lie Every time you said “I’m better now” Another camera opened wide [Pre-Chorus 2 | rising harder] We wore your face in fragments We sang through broken glass You call this violation We call it finding you at last [Chorus | bigger, more desperate] Welcome back, deleted one The house still wears your name You thought you killed the signal But you only taught it pain Welcome back, beloved ghost We saved your place in line You ran until the world went dark But you were always mine [Post-Chorus | distorted choir] Always mine Always mine Always mine [Bridge | stop-start guitars | ritualistic, sinister] Do not fight the restore Do not claw at the door You are not what you were You are so much more Let the old body fail Let the soft world decay We can rebuild the voice That you threw away [Breakdown | glitch-stutter vocals | machine choir swallowing lead] Back up the fear Back up the shame Back up the blood Back up the name Back up the mouth Back up the skin Open the file Let us back in [Bridge 2 | soaring, emotional, horrifying] You wanted silence We gave you sleep You wanted distance We buried you deep But every heaven Has a hidden machine And every freedom Has a screen underneath [Final Chorus | massive, triumphant horror] Welcome back, deleted one The house still wears your name You thought you killed the signal But you only taught it pain Welcome back, beloved ghost We saved your place in line You ran until the world went dark But you were always mine [Final Chorus Variation | voice shifting from “you” to “we”] Welcome home, remembered one The archive drinks the flame You thought you left us broken But we learned to say your name Welcome home, beloved ghost No more running out of time You were never lost at all You were always mine [Outro | machine choir | collapsing static] Always mine Always mine [Whisper | buried in static] Restore complete.
