The neon flickers through the hanging moss The neon flickers through the hanging moss I’m counting up the profit and I’m bleeding out the loss My battery is low and the wires are turning brown Yeah, my battery is low and the wires are turning brown I’m the rusted king of a digital ghost town I plugged my heart into a broken wall I plugged my heart into a broken wall Waiting for a signal or a mercy-driven call The river’s made of oil and the fish are made of tin The river’s made of oil and the fish are made of tin I’m scrubbing at the static just to find where I begin Oh, the Delta’s dark and the code is stripping bare Yeah, the Delta’s dark and the code is stripping bare There’s a heavy scent of copper in the humid summer air And you can’t outrun a shadow when the ghost is everywhere I sold my silver for a shot of dirty light I sold my silver for a shot of dirty light To keep the system humming through the middle of the night The preacher is a sensor and the choir is a drone The preacher is a sensor and the choir is a drone They’re singing out a gospel for a skeleton of chrome Searching for the ground... Searching for the spark... Everything is breaking in the dark. I met a girl with sensors in her eyes I met a girl with sensors in her eyes She promised me a heaven underneath the carbon skies But she shorted out the circuit when she kissed me on the mouth She shorted out the circuit when she kissed me on the mouth Now everything is drifting to the hollow, hungry south The mainframe’s crashing and the levee’s gonna break The mainframe’s crashing and the levee’s gonna break There’s only so much pressure that a copper heart can take I’ll lay my head down where the data comes to die I’ll lay my head down where the data comes to die And watch the binary stars falling from the sky System failure... Down in the mud. Where the oil runs thick... Like human blood.
