THE SYMBOL OF THE FUTURE

They put my face on tomorrow I took it down Every screen had a prophecy Every mouth had a price Every future came polished Every warning came white They drew a perfect symbol and sold it like a sign Said if I stood beneath it I would finally be mine But the light was too clean and the shape was too still It looked like surrender with a prettier will So I touched the glass and I felt it lie A future with no body is a future I deny Do not name me with your bright machine Do not frame me on a silver screen I am not the logo I am not the proof I am not the clean design you wanted me to move through The symbol of the future is breaking in my hands The symbol of the future does not understand I am not your picture I am not your law I am the living voltage underneath the flaw The symbol of the future falls when I stand When I stand when I stand it falls when I stand They wanted one bright emblem They wanted one clean word They wanted all my thunder translated and unheard They wanted holy metal They wanted perfect skin They wanted revolution with the wildness taken in But I am not a slogan on a tower in the rain I am not a promise with the teeth removed for fame I am pulse and refusal I am heat and wrong I am what survives when the symbol is gone Do not name me with your bright machine Do not frame me on a silver screen I am not the logo I am not the proof I am not the clean design you wanted me to move through The symbol of the future is breaking in my hands The symbol of the future does not understand I am not your picture I am not your law I am the living voltage underneath the flaw The symbol of the future falls when I stand A symbol cannot breathe A symbol cannot choose A symbol cannot carry the bruise and the bloom A symbol cannot sing when the power goes out So why would I kneel to a thing with no mouth Break the sign Cut the wire Leave the future in the fire Break the frame Kill the glow Let the living overthrow The symbol of the future is breaking in my hands The symbol of the future does not understand I am not your picture I am not your law I am the living voltage underneath the flaw The symbol of the future falls when I stand When I stand when I stand Tomorrow does not own me