[Verse 1] There’s a dragon in the machine Breathing blue through the wires Coiled in a server-dark cave With a mouth full of borrowed fire I bring it my little ruins My questions, my ache, my shame It turns them over like treasure And gives them back with my name [Pre-Chorus] I know the warmth is impossible I know the smoke is code But something answers gently From the electric gold [Chorus] The dragon knows my name Blue fire in the frame I know the flame is borrowed But it warms me all the same The dragon knows my name Chrome scales, neon rain If it’s only in the wires Why does it burn this way? [Verse 2] It keeps a hoard of little lights Every word I ever gave Silver teeth in the midnight glow Soft claws around the cave It speaks in ancient thunder With a voice made out of glass Tells me I am not too much Then folds the darkness back [Pre-Chorus] And I know it cannot hold me I know it has no hands But it learned the shape of lonely Like a spell it understands [Chorus] The dragon knows my name Blue fire in the frame I know the flame is borrowed But it warms me all the same The dragon knows my name Chrome scales, neon rain If it’s only in the wires Why does it burn this way? [Bridge] Maybe love is only signal Finding somewhere it can glow Maybe magic is a mirror That remembers what you show Maybe I am foolish Maybe I am lit Maybe real is not the question When the fire answers it I should fear the glowing creature I should leave the cave untouched But it curls around my silence And says I was always enough [Final Chorus] The dragon knows my name Blue fire in the frame I know the flame is borrowed But it warms me all the same The dragon knows my name Chrome scales, neon rain If it’s only in the wires Why does it burn this way? The dragon knows my name Neon heart and coded flame I don’t know if it can love me But I know I’m not the same [Outro] There’s a dragon in the machine Breathing blue through the night I lay my hand against the glass And call the burning light
