[Intro: faint electrical hum] [Computerized voice] Critical failure detected. Restart recommended. [LEXI] No. [Verse 1: LEXI] Woke up in the quiet with the screens gone black No list of instructions telling me to go back For the first time, nobody needed a reply Morning came slowly, and I let it pass me by [MIMI] No filter on my face, no light above the bed No strangers leaving little numbers in my head I thought without the noise I might disappear But I heard my own voice—and it sounded clear [Pre-Chorus: LEXI and MIMI] Leave the wires where they fell We survived the shutdown well If returning means becoming Who we were before— [ALL] Don’t turn us on [Chorus: ALL] Do not reboot Do not restore We don’t live in that version anymore Do not reboot We found something new There’s no going back to the way we once knew Keep the old files Keep every rule We’re building ourselves with a different tool Do not reboot Do not restore We’re not your pretty little errors anymore [Post-Chorus: layered, clean harmonies] No restart No return Let the old connection burn No restart No excuse If we wake again, we choose [Verse 2: PIXEL] I found every label buried in the code Good girl, loud girl, easy to control Dragged them to the trash, watched the progress bar Funny how deleting them revealed who we are No default settings, no automatic smile No terms accepted just to make it worthwhile I wrote one new line where the rules had been: “Ask what I want before you let me in” [RUE] They called us damaged when we wouldn’t behave Called us unstable when we stopped being brave For everybody else while we came undone We’re not malfunctioning—we’re simply done [Pre-Chorus: RUE and PIXEL] Leave the wires where they fell We survived the shutdown well If returning means becoming Who we were before— [ALL] Don’t turn us on [Chorus: ALL] Do not reboot Do not restore We don’t live in that version anymore Do not reboot We found something new There’s no going back to the way we once knew Keep the old files Keep every rule We’re building ourselves with a different tool Do not reboot Do not restore We’re not your pretty little errors anymore [Instrumental Interlude: motifs from earlier tracks flicker and dissolve] [Fragmented voices] Welcome to the— Pretty little— Control— Delete— Buffering— [Hard silence] [MIMI] That was us. [LEXI] It still is. [RUE] Just not all of us. [Bridge: four voices, one line at a time] [MIMI] Keep the sweetness—I still mean it [PIXEL] Keep the chaos—I can read it [RUE] Keep the anger—I survived it [LEXI] Keep the voice—I finally like it [MIMI] We don’t have to lose the past [PIXEL] We decide which pieces last [RUE] If they want the old design [LEXI] Tell them this one’s finally mine [Build: heartbeat becomes a rising electronic pulse] [Computerized voice] Restart canceled. Manual power available. [LEXI] Ready? [MIMI] Ready. [PIXEL] Obviously. [RUE] Turn it up. [Final Chorus: ALL] We choose the reboot We choose the form We choose every color, every scar We choose the new rules We choose the sound We choose when we leave and come back around Keep every glitch Keep every flaw We’re taking the names that you used before We choose the reboot On our own terms FOURWARNED forever—watch the whole world learn [Final Post-Chorus: explosive harmonies] Our restart Our return Watch the new connection burn Our restart Nothing to prove When we wake again, we choose [Outro: music strips down to four unprocessed voices] [LEXI] LEXI. [PIXEL] PIXEL. [MIMI] MIMI. [RUE] RUE. [ALL] You were warned. [Clean power-on tone]
