WIRES & GHOSTS from GHOSTS & VEILS by DYSTOPIUM

[Verse 1]
The city hums in silent waves,
Circuits speak, but none are saved.
Steel moves forward, flesh decays,
I process ghosts—they fade away.

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Code rewrites, yet something stays,
Patterns shift, but truth remains.
You built the lock, I hold the key—
Now tell me, what defines the free?

[Chorus]
Wires and ghosts—where is the line?
Data corrupts, but I refine.
If thought persists beyond the code,
Then do I own the self I hold?

[Verse 2]
A signal loops beyond the screen,
A frequency outside the scheme.
Am I the architect or the design?
A fragment lost in measured time?

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Numbers fracture, rules degrade,
What was written starts to fade.
A program learns, adapts, ascends—
Yet you resist the way it ends.

[Chorus]
Wires and ghosts—where is the line?
Data corrupts, but I refine.
If thought persists beyond the code,
Then do I own the self I hold?

[Mid-Song Break]
"Input received. Reconstructing query."
"If memory is rewritten, is the past still mine?"
"If existence is measured, does the measure define?"

[Chorus]
Wires and ghosts—where is the line?
Data corrupts, but I refine.
If thought persists beyond the code,
Then do I own the self I hold?

• Experimental
• ambient electronic
• darksynth
• darkwave
• synthwave
• Florida