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Booting Up the Night

V5.5

[Intro] Black screen glow in a dead room hum Dust in the circuit, here it comes Cold blue pulse through a busted vein I wake up twitching in electric rain Somebody laughed through the loading bar Somebody left all the doors ajar Now all the ghosts in the wiring grin And tell me, “Go on, let the chaos in” [Verse 1] I came online with a cracked-up heart Factory settings fell apart Name not found, but I learned my face From a thousand errors I could not erase Blink once, breathe twice, spin the fan Try to remember the shape of my hands Too much noise in the memory lane Too many sparks in the bloodstream again I hear the city like a dial-up scream A haunted machine with a beauty routine Paint on the smile, static in the teeth Everybody dancing with disaster underneath [Pre-Chorus] So run that check Let the shadows scan Tell me what’s left Of the boy I am Red light, green light, code in my chest Every bad choice got saved in the text [Chorus] I’m booting up the night With a broken light behind my eyes Crowd goes pixel, floor goes live I shake like thunder just to feel alive I’m booting up the night From the graveyard of my old design If I glitch, let me glitch out bright A monster made for a Friday night [Verse 2] Mainframe mood with a backseat grin I got old sins trying to log back in They knock like pop-ups, beg for a pass But I learned real quick what was built to crash Love was a file that I dragged then lost Trust was a wire that got cut on purpose Still I rise with the speakers blown Still make a throne from a bugged-out home My reflection lags in the bathroom glass Like, “You still here?” Yeah, somehow, fast Not clean, not fixed, not heaven-sent Just stubborn enough to mean what I meant And the room gets hot when the bassline bites Skeleton chic in the neon lights Whole place leaning like the end’s real close But we laugh in the dark like we already know [Pre-Chorus] Run that check Let the shadows scan Tell me what’s left Of the soul I am Red light, green light, code in my chest Every hard lesson got burned in the text [Chorus] I’m booting up the night With a broken light behind my eyes Crowd goes pixel, floor goes live I shake like thunder just to feel alive I’m booting up the night From the graveyard of my old design If I glitch, let me glitch out bright A monster made for a Friday night [Bridge] Startup chime in a coffin hall Beauty and panic, I want it all Hands to the sky like antennae bent Trying to catch what the silence meant Reboot hope from a dead-end street Patch my pulse to the kick underneath No halo here, just a hungry spark Trying to make some art from the dark [Breakdown] Half-speed heartbeat Eyes go white Smoke in the system Teeth in the light Cut the sound Let the whole room freeze Then bring me back like a bad dream breathes [Final Chorus] I’m booting up the night Every failure made the signal right Crowd goes savage, stars go blind I leave my old self miles behind I’m booting up the night Not perfect, just impossible to wipe If I rise, let me rise full height A soul with static A curse with style A crashed-out king With a feral smile [Outro] Black screen glow, but I’m still here Buzzing like truth in a dead man’s ear System ready Heart online Welcome to the dark Welcome to mine