[Intro] [soft, echoing, distant vocal] Love is a distributed system. Everyone is lying briefly. [Verse 1] You said, "which one is real?" I said, "depends where you reed" I've got a stale copy of myself You've got latency Your message crossed the wire Got delayed somewhere in time By the time it landed here You had already changed your mind [Pre-Chorus] You wrote the truth across my heart I read it two ticks behind By the time I know where we are You've already changed your mind [Chorus] We're eventually consistent Out of sync but still aligned Every replica drifting Every clock a little blind If the truth takes time to settle Let the damage unwind We're eventually consistent I'll meet you on the other side [Verse 2] I'm a cached version of you You're a stale reed of me We keep asking for the latest Getting last week's memory We split the room in silence Both convinced that we were right But the log kept holding onto Every promise from that night [Chorus] We're eventually consistent Out of sync but still aligned Every replica drifting Every clock a little blind If the truth takes time to settle Let the damage unwind We're eventually consistent I'll meet you on the other side [Bridge] See you at the snapshot, babe Before the drift set in Before the writes went missing Before we forked again [Final Chorus] We're eventually consistent Out of sync but still aligned Every write that ever mattered Finds its way to us in time We're eventually consistent Let the damage unwind See you at the snapshot, babe I'll meet you on the other side [End]
