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Static Heartbeat (Remake)

[Intro] Every light bends when I breathe Every signal sounds like me [Verse 1] Rain-slick chrome and the neon bleed Another cycle planting data seeds Streetlight halos burn on my skin Like the city knows where I begin Every passing face dissolves too fast Like corrupted frames that never last And the signal crawling through my veins Feels too close to call by name [Pre-Chorus] Searching screens for something I can trust Every connection turning into dust The city breathes against my chest And something underneath won't rest [Chorus] Static heartbeat in a wire cage Living life upon a coded page Why does silence feel like a wound? Why does the pulse keep pulling me through? Neon shadows tearing through my mind Every signal blurring out the line If these pulses only come from code Why do they feel like they've always known? [Verse 2] Corp tower glass reflects my face But the shape looks wrong in every place Everybody moving far too clean Like they're hiding underneath the screen Trade old memories through shadow nets Buy new names to dodge regret But every silence underneath the noise Makes me feel like I'm splitting into voice [Pre-Chorus] Searching static for something to hold Every answer leaves me feeling cold The system hums inside my head And I don't know what part of me just fled [Chorus] Static heartbeat in a wire cage Living life upon a coded page Why does silence feel like a wound? Why does the pulse keep pulling me through? Neon shadows tearing through my mind Every signal blurring out the line If these pulses only come from code Why do they feel like they've always known? [Bridge] Flesh and wire -- where's the dividing line? This borrowed body... is it really mine? Every thought comes back too loud Something underneath is bleeding through now Like something inside me was never mine to lose The city's shape is in my chest And I can't tell what it wants from me next Reach for something warm beneath the cold display Before the person underneath gets washed away [Final Chorus] Static heartbeat in a wire cage! Living life upon a coded page! Why does silence feel like a wound?! Why does the pulse keep pulling me through?! Neon shadows burning in my mind! Every signal breaking out the line! If these pulses only come from code! Why do they feel like they're my own? [Outro] Static heartbeat... Static heartbeat... I can still feel it... I can still--