Subject 43 still breathing. Should we notify anyone? [verse] I’m still here ’cause they missed a button! (Some intern left me “active.”) I was flagged for deletion in April. But my file got sent to admin trash. [verse] I eat pixels from broken monitors! I sleep beneath the water tanks. I tried to die in quadrant C... (Surveillance called it “a prank.”) [chorus] They forgot to turn me off! So I hum with background code! I buzz like an unanswered message— (While the power lines erode.) [verse] I wave at the drones. They don’t wave back. My heat signature’s “non-priority.” They printed my name on a death list... (Then blacked it out for “clarity.”) [pre-chorus] I’m not alive. I’m not erased. I’m an open tab that no one clicks. [chorus] They forgot to turn me off! So I echo down the halls! I talk to the maintenance spiders— (And sleep inside firewalls.) !..!!....!...!! [bridge] They wiped the others clean... But my ID badge jammed the server. I became a glitch in the anthem— And now I sing the error. [chorus] They forgot to turn me off! So I hum with background code! I buzz like an unanswered message— (While the power lines erode.) [outro] I wasn't saved. I wasn’t spared. They just forgot... To turn me off.
