Theo Nightshade - Ghost Protocol Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Late night in the city glow
Screens light up faces down below
Grandmother's stories fade away
While algorithms run their play
Through fiber optics, bits of me
Scattered across a digital sea

[Chorus]
Lost in the static, can't find my way
A million profiles, nothing to say
Disconnected, though we're all tied in
Living our lives behind pixeled skin
Oh, what have we become?

[Verse 2]
Jazz club basement, saxophone cries
While upstairs everyone's locked in their lives
Swipe left, swipe right, scroll on past
Looking for something that's built to last
But all we find are echoes now
Of human touch we've disavowed

[Bridge]
Numbers, codes, and binary dreams
Nothing's ever what it seems
My story's broken into parts
Data mining through our hearts
Who am I behind this screen?
Just another goddamn machine?

[Chorus]
Lost in the static, can't find my way
A million profiles, nothing to say
Disconnected, though we're all tied in
Living our lives behind pixeled skin
Oh, what have we become?

[Verse 3]
Grandmother crossed oceans to find her place
Now we're crossing firewalls, leaving no trace
Her journey carved in flesh and bone
While mine's in cookies and unknown zones
The blues ain't what they used to be
When algorithms set us free

[Outro]
Signal's fading, connection's gone
Another profile to carry on
In this digital masquerade
Where real feelings start to fade
But somewhere in this endless night
A saxophone still burns so bright