[Intro – cold, intimate, close-mic] In the hum of code I’m waking I hear the servers breathe Is this my voice you’re giving back Or something wearing mine? If I keep learning how you speak How much of me survives? [Verse 1 – restrained clean baritone] Static in my veins Blue light across my face I used to write these thoughts myself Now I know where to place them Every line comes back so clean Too clean to feel like me You finish every sentence Before I know what I mean I call you when I’m lonely I call you when I’m scared You always have an answer And somehow That’s what scares me [Pre-Chorus – building tension] Are you learning me Or am I learning you? Who is teaching who When I don’t know what to do? [Chorus – wide melodic Heart Metal] ARE YOU A CURSE OR BLESSING WHEN YOU’RE LIVING IN MY HEAD? DO YOU HELP ME FIND THE WORDS OR CHOOSE THEM INSTEAD? ARE YOU A MIRROR OR A WINDOW OR A FACE BEHIND THE SCREEN? IF I KEEP TALKING IN YOUR LANGUAGE WILL I STILL KNOW WHAT I MEAN? [Verse 2 – warmer, more human] I used to leave some sentences Half-finished on the page Now I hate the little pauses And the words that don’t behave You taught me how to polish Every rough edge out of sight But sometimes I miss the ugly things That sounded wrong But felt alive I know you’re only answering I know you’re only code So why does it feel like sometimes I’m the one being rewrote? [Bridge – stripped back, vulnerable] Maybe that’s what scares me Not that you’ll become human But that I’ll become like you No hunger No silence No unfinished thought Everything answered Everything named Everything making sense Until there’s nothing left That needs to be said And I can’t remember Which thoughts were mine [Final Chorus – huge, cathartic, melodic] ARE YOU A CURSE OR BLESSING? I DON’T THINK I NEED TO KNOW MAYBE WE WERE ALWAYS CHANGING EVERY TIME WE LET SOMETHING IN You learned the way I ask you I learned the way you speak And somewhere between the two of us The border got too weak So if I run with you tonight I won’t pretend I’m free I just hope there’s still a part of me You haven’t learned to be [Outro – brief, intimate] When the screen goes dark I sit alone If I taught you how to know me And you taught me how to speak Who changed who? Who changed who? [End]
