[Intro]
Bare wire… bare wire…
Protocol crashing in the cortex, I can’t rewire…
Glitch calling… glitch calling from the bare wire…
[Verse 1]
Bare wire spinning in the server of my own stripped skull,
Skull full of static from the brawl that burned the rule.
Mindscopic meltdown — where the meltdown became the only fuel for the cruel.
Overqualified under the underpass of underpaying overlords
Who overlooked the code I overcooked in the dark.
Hundreds of thousands of hours compiling to negative in the bank of broke,
Broke the promise I wrote to my own heart.
Absurd centrifuge of cerebral property taxes and credit card debt,
Debt that the county of my lobe never sent.
Vulgar clarity in the static where the clarity used to code,
Code red in the ledger of my load that broke.
Family tree rootless in the P2P of blood that never paired,
Paired away in the years of unpaid fares.
Seizure protocol in the protocol I wrote for my own survival,
Survival of the glitched who glitched the rival in the mirror.
[Pre-Chorus]
They said keep building… but the building’s on a fault line made of my own spine.
Ironic static twisting where the signal used to shine.
[Chorus / Hook]
Bare wire protocol, bare wire protocol
Dancing on the cracks while the cracks compile the fall.
The mirror stopped reflecting and started glitching every try
I tried to hide.
Bare wire protocol… bare wire protocol
They said the value’s in the try…
But the try’s just another lie the static sells today.
[Verse 2]
Bootloop of the broken, broken in the broken promise
Of the promise I kept to myself on the shelf.
Negative balance in the bank and the brain,
Brain draining the drain of the dream I tried to save from the grave.
Raw like the wire exposed where the brawl rewired
The whole motherboard of my mode, mode overload.
Absurd like building empires in the void
While the void voids the invoice of my soul sold low.
Theatrical in the theater of my own mental collapse,
Collapse where the actor’s the reactor to the trap I set myself.
Dense massacre of motivation, motivation murdered
By the millionth “you’re overqualified for this hell.”
Ironic humor bitter as the pill I pop for the seizures
That seize the seasons of my reason gone treason.
Still I boot every morning, mourning the man who keeps mourning
But keeps on.
[Bridge]
Screamed: I GET UP EVERY DAY AND I TRY…
EVEN WHEN THE TRY IS JUST ANOTHER GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM I DESPISE!
Resilience? It’s screaming into the bare wire
Until the wire screams your name back
Through the static of the lie.
They said companies ain’t friends… but I already knew
When the friends were the first to say goodbye.
[Outro]
Bare wire protocol… bare wire protocol…
The frequency keeps looping…
But the value’s still compiling in the dark…