[Intro - Spoken]
Hello
Count your blessings
They still bleed

[Verse 1]
You wake up to a password
I wake up in a bruise
Skin like broken windows
Heart like bad news
You scroll through another headline
I’m scraping at the day
You can mute the screaming
I still hear it anyway

You want upgrades?
I got molars cracking on the rent
I got lungs full of late fees
I got bones that bend
Not bendable terms of service

[Pre-Chorus]
You call this progress
I call it pressure
You call it streamlined
I call it severed
Every glitch in your grid is a scar on my hand
Every crash in your cloud is a life you don’t understand

[Chorus]
Flesh and error
Blood and bugs in the code (hey!)
You take for granted what keeps corroding on the road
Call and answer
I shout
You buffer and spin
You get your updates
I just grow older in my skin (my skin!)

[Verse 2]
You want forever?
Try waiting in this doctor’s line
Try shaking in this metal chair
While they mispronounce your name a fifth time

My heart’s not a battery
Can’t just swap it when it dies
It limps
It limps
It limps
Still drags my body through these lies

You chase perfect replication
I’m stuck with this trembling hand
Can’t copy-paste a panic attack
Can’t undo what I don’t understand

[Spoken Word]
Look at your fingers
Those dirty revolutionaries
Leaving fingerprints on everything
Graffiti on coffee cups
Bus poles
Each other
Proof you were here
Proof you were wrong
Proof you were real enough to stain something

You dream of turning into data
I dream of turning into someone
Who doesn’t have to ask
“Is there still a person in there?”
Every time the screen lights your face

[Chorus]
Flesh and error
Blood and bugs in the code (hey!)
You take for granted what keeps corroding on the road
Call and answer
I shout
You buffer and spin
You get your updates
I just grow older in my skin

[Call & Response]
Singer: Are you alive or just online?
Crowd: Just online!
Singer: Are you a body or a brand?
Crowd: Just a brand!
Singer: Who’s still here when the signal dies?
Crowd: We are
We are!
Singer: Who still hurts when the future lies?
Crowd: We are
We are! (we are!)

[Bridge]
Here’s to the limits
To running out of breath mid-scream
To knees that quit on stair five of fifteen
To shaking hands that spill the coffee
To every scar like messy handwriting across your body

Here’s to the sunset you can’t rewind
To the last hug
To the last fight
To every goodbye that doesn’t sync across devices
Just hangs there
In your throat
Forever

[Chorus]
Flesh and error
Blood and bugs in the code (hey!)
You take for granted what keeps corroding on the road
Call and answer
I bleed
You just log me out
You get your upgrades
I get to live and break and shout

[Outro - Spoken]
Raise your hands if you’re still cursed enough
To feel this
Raise your hands if it hurts
Keep them up
Don’t let them
Patch us out