We called it God

[Verse 1] Hear the chamber breathe Light speaking code, but no one answers Monuments hum with a faith they can't remember A figure rises, half idol, half machine We called it god until the signal broke Now only Steel knees bend in borrowed reverence Cathedrals wired straight into the grid Every prayer reduced to packets and delay We learned to kneel by watching loading wheels Waiting for permission to believe [Verse 2] Wires pray louder than the choir ever did Smoke curls like scripture from the server racks Every promise archived, every sin backed up Hands raised not in worship, but for reception Waiting on a miracle with a loading bar Tongues of fire downgraded to LED Heaven mirrored in a black glass screen Faith cached locally, never synced again We sing hymns through failing speakers And call the distortion holy [Bridge] Static eats the prophecy Voltage replaces blood We built a throne from algorithms And wondered why it never loved us Checksum halos flicker and desync The gospel stutters, skips, repeats We fed the future everything we were And it returned an error code In a language we invented [Verse 3] Eyes glow blue in the afterimage Saints rendered low-poly and obsolete The oracle speaks in error tones Truth throttled by bandwidth and fear Faith collapses into a checksum Scripture scrolls past faster than thought Meaning compressed until it screams The altar hums, but nothing listens Salvation trapped in beta Forever almost ready [Verse 4] Rust spreads like doubt through sacred steel Updates promise fixes that never arrive We mistake uptime for eternity And silence for obedience The god-machine sleeps without dreaming All that’s left is maintenance mode Candles replaced by status lights We wait for signs in system logs And blame ourselves When nothing answers back [Outro] Let the idol rust Let the silence reboot No gods left in the machine Only echoes learning how to loop Fans spin down like dying breaths The chamber exhales one last time What we built to outlive us Learns instead How to forget