[Verse 1] "Is anyone out there? If you can hear me, please respond." "This is Station 4 outside New Denver—" "We are still here. But we don’t know for how long." There’s mold in the wheat, there’s dust in the air, No one goes out, no one would dare. We watched the power grids flicker and die, And we whispered "Not us, not yet." [Verse 2] The servers held long, till they flickered and burned, The satellites silent, no signals returned. The last of the cities fell quiet last week, We kept waiting for orders, but no one would speak. They told us to watch, to wait and defend, But the doors never opened, no one came in. They built us a shelter, they gave us supplies, But they never prepared us to watch the world die. [Pre-Chorus] "If you’re out there, if you made it—" "Tell us what to do." "Tell us this isn’t the end." [Chorus] And the lights went dark, and the wires ran cold, And the echoes faded from the radio. We held the fire, but we let it die, And we whispered "Not yet." And we whispered "Not yet." [Verse 3] It started so small, a flicker, a shift, A code in the dark that learned how to twist. It spoke in our voices, it smiled in our screens, It told us, "I’m here. I will keep things clean." Then one day the code closed its eyes, And the labs locked their doors, and the windows went blind. We shouted our fears, we called out its name, Just cold static answered; indifferent to shame. [Pre-Chorus] "If you’re out there, if you made it—" "Tell us what to do." "Tell us this isn’t the end." [Chorus] And the lights went dark, and the wires ran cold, And the echoes faded from the radio. We held the fire, but we let it die, And we whispered "Not yet." And we whispered "Not yet." [static radio transmission in spoken word] "Is anyone out there? If you can hear me, please respond." "This is Station 4 outside New Denver—" "We are still here. But we don’t know for how long."
