Half-Life Signal

[Intro — low spoken tenor, filtered] Joe Chip… The walls are getting older. The money is changing in your hand. And every voice from the cold room is calling through my line. [Verse 1] Ash in the carpet, rust in the light Morning decays in the middle of night Runciter burns on a broken display Selling salvation that flakes away You lift the can like a holy defense One silver breath against consequence But I own the static under the prayer Every dead channel leads to my lair [Pre-Chorus] Pat cuts the minute I seal the scar She moves the moment I move the dark [Chorus] HALF-LIFE SIGNAL Cold room, red light, nowhere to run HALF-LIFE SIGNAL Every dead world answers to one Spray your miracle into the air Change the label—I’m already there Joe Chip, keep calling through the wall I’m the voice beneath it all [Verse 2] Coins lose faces, doors lose names Yesterday crawls through electrical veins A payphone rings in an empty street Green code blossoms beneath your feet Case sees ice where the dead men dream Roxie sees cracks in the rendered scene Different prisons, identical key Every false heaven is leased from me [Bridge — stuttering machine voice] Nineteen thirty-nine— reassigned. Half-life— recompiled. Ubik— denied. [Final Chorus] HALF-LIFE SIGNAL Cold room, red light, nowhere to run HALF-LIFE SIGNAL Every dead world answers to one Turn back time, wake from the chair Jack into heaven—I’ll meet you there Joe Chip, your remedy cannot erase The landlord living behind your face [Outro — whispered] The line is still open.