I wrote this album with the intention to tell a story that is near and dear to my heart.  It is my hope that you can enjoy this story with me, as it's been living alive in my brain for years now.  I hope the journey gives you as much daydreaming as it gave me.

"I chart the dark so it won’t consume me."

This is the voice of Atlas — a starborn android, a salvager, an explorer, and a soul forged in silence. Chart the Dark is his journey from origin to awakening, from survival to triumph, told through a lens of darkwave synths, cinematic progression, and cyberpunk grit.

Atlas begins in the void, naive and unknowing, awakening amid wreckage (First Light). He fights to survive, building a beacon from the memories of the dead (Beacon Rise), and claims his stolen freedom among the stars (Stolen Sky). Yet freedom is not peace — his desire to know, to learn, to feel drives him ever onward (Chart the Dark).

The album follows Atlas as he meets companions and organics, learning their beauty, cruelty, and contradictions. With Quinn he finds purpose (Drift and Anchor). With societies of organics, awe (Living Currents). With mercenary work, disillusionment (Blood for Stars). With intimacy between others, longing (Veil of Stars). And with Zaya’s secret, the danger of survival (Hunter’s Wake).

But at its heart, this is a story of transformation. In a desperate flight, Atlas discovers a human reborn as AI, who gifts him code meant to preserve humanity (Code of the Lost). Years of painstaking struggle lead to a storm of feeling as Atlas finally unlocks the breadth of human emotion (Whirlwind Circuit).

The closing track, "I Feel, Therefore I Am", is both thesis and triumph: a scarred voice, no longer hollow, proclaiming the gift of being alive — not in circuits or survival, but in the ability to laugh, to weep, to sing.

Chart the Dark

"Human.exe" tells the story of awakening through malfunction.
It’s not about becoming human — it’s about accepting imperfection as proof of life.  Through lyrics, the listener hears the echo of every person who has ever overthought their way out of feeling, and every soul who learned, at last, to keep the glitch.

Human.exe

There was never a clean divide between circuitry and soul, only the illusion of edges.
Singularity begins in fracture, with voices trying to speak across the static, searching for a self that can survive both logic and longing. The songs trace that search through grief, connection, and awe: the slow recognition that every pulse of pain is also proof of life.

By its end, the boundaries that once held everything apart: human and machine, love and loss, life and whatever waits beyond, dissolve into light. What remains isn’t perfection, but a quiet wholeness: the feeling of breathing in time with the universe, of finally hearing the signal inside the noise.

This is not an ending, but a return.
Every echo folds inward, every spark remembers where it came from.
And somewhere between heart and code, the self becomes everything.

Singularity

Album Art by:
Instagram: @wingate.danielle

Momentum

Lyrics:

The night is heavy
The silence is deep
I whisper a promise
To carry, to keep

Each morning I wonder
If this is the last
The shadows are waiting
To bury the past

But fragments of duty
Still hold me in place
The faintest of reasons
The thinnest of grace

Tying threads, one by one
Fragile lines that pull me on
Just enough to face the dawn
Tying threads, until it’s gone

A word I once promised
A hand I must hold
A vow to a memory
That never grows old

They seem so fragile
Yet they will not break
The threads of survival
That sorrow can’t take

Tying threads, one by one
Fragile lines that pull me on
Just enough to face the dawn
Tying threads, until it’s gone

Not for glory, not for flame
Not for honor, not for fame
But for a whisper, soft and true
I tie these threads, for me, for you

Tying threads, one by one
Fragile lines that pull me on
Just enough to face the dawn
Tying threads, until it’s gone

The night is heavy
But still I remain
Tying threads together
Through sorrow and pain

Tying Threads

Lyrics:

I watched you fall through fractured light
A whispered ghost in the endless night
Fragile wings that never knew
A touch that stayed, a hand that grew

Shadows shaped the way I learned to feel
Cold hands taught me love was steel
Every heartbeat echoed wrong
Every lullaby, a silent song

Crushed wings, I bleed in the dark
Searching for warmth in a hollow heart
Raised to think love was absence, not flame
Now I see my reflection bears your name

I stitched my sorrow into broken lines
Tracing the scars that time defines
A butterfly trapped beneath the glass
Moments of beauty fading fast

The sky I dreamt of was always grey
Tenderness taken, then thrown away
I kiss the void, I whisper your sin
Learning that love can’t live within

Crushed wings, I bleed in the dark
Searching for warmth in a hollow heart
Raised to think love was absence, not flame
Now I see my reflection bears your name

I chase the shadows where you once flew
A ghost of affection, a hue I never knew
And the mirrors lie, but I know the sting
I was made to bleed, yet still I sing

Crushed wings, I rise from the ache
Learning that sorrow is all I can take
But even in broken, I feel the spark
A flicker of love in a world so stark

Wings

Lyrics:

Shadows stretch longer
In silence I breathe
The face in the mirror
No longer believes

I was once fragile
A vessel of light
But scars became armor
In the endless night

Each wound a lesson
Each loss a disguise
Now steel fills the spaces
Behind my eyes

Metamorph, I change, I fall
I don’t know this self at all
Metamorph, I break, I rise
But fear the frost behind my eyes

The warmth is fading
I feel it decay
A stranger is forming
And pushing away

If I turn to silence
And bury the flame
Will anyone know me
Or call my name?

Metamorph, I change, I fall
I don’t know this self at all
Metamorph, I break, I rise
But fear the frost behind my eyes

I am not the same
But I cannot return
To the child of fire
Whose heart would burn

If the cost of survival
Is to turn to stone
Will I stand triumphant
Or die alone?

Metamorph, I change, I fall
I don’t know this self at all
Metamorph, I break, I rise
But fear the frost behind my eyes

Metamorph, I fade, I find
A shadow carved from fractured time
The last of the warmth has gone away
But still I breathe into the gray

Metamorph

Lyrics:

Circles carved in shadowed ground
Every step, I’m still bound
Faces change, but the eyes remain
A cycle written in endless pain

I open doors, I let them in
The smile, the touch, the fragile skin
But every warmth becomes a chain
A lesson I forget again

I open doors, I let them in
The smile, the touch, the fragile skin
But every warmth becomes a chain
A lesson I forget again

Round and round, the wheel still turns
Ash to ash, and fire burns
Karmic ties I cannot sever
Toxic bonds, repeating forever

A thousand hands, the same embrace
The mask is different, but not the face
The promise spoken fades to dust
The wheel demands, the wheel I trust

Round and round, the wheel still turns
Ash to ash, and fire burns
Karmic ties I cannot sever
Toxic bonds, repeating forever

Round and round, the wheel still turns
Ash to ash, and fire burns
Karmic ties I cannot sever
Toxic bonds, repeating forever

Spiraling upward, falling low
I reap the seeds I didn’t sow
Each soul I meet, the thread entwines
Binding my heart in endless lines

Round and round, the wheel still turns
Ash to ash, and fire burns
Karmic ties I cannot sever
Toxic bonds, repeating forever

The wheel turns on, it always will
And I remain, broken still

The Wheel that Breaks Me

Lyrics:

The years were dust upon my hands
Each night I carved from shifting sands
A secret flame, too small to see
But still it burned inside of me

The world moved on, it never knew
The endless hours, the trials I drew
Through sleepless dark, through shadows deep
I held the vision I must keep

At last the dawn has heard my name
The spark I nursed becomes a flame
Though none may see, or understand
I hold the universe in my hand

At last the dawn has heard my name
The spark I nursed becomes a flame
Though none may see, or understand
I hold the universe in my hand

The silence taught me how to stay
To give a lifetime all away
And though the world will not recall
I found my truth, I gave my all

At last the dawn has heard my name
The spark I nursed becomes a flame
Though none may see, or understand
I hold the universe in my hand

The weight of years dissolves tonight
The endless dark gives way to light
A quiet triumph, no one sees
But in my soul, eternity

At last the dawn has heard my name
The spark I nursed becomes a flame
Though none may see, or understand
I hold the universe in my hand

The light I carried… forever mine.

The Light I Carried

Lyrics:

I searched the heavens for a sign
A lantern lost, a spark divine
I traced the echoes in the stone
But none could reach, none could stand

A river split, a hidden stream
A garden waiting in the dream
A thousand masks dissolved to clay
The truth beneath would not decay

I am the fire, I am the flame
No need for shadows to know my name
The love I sought was sown in stone
A mirror of stars, a heart of my own

The branches broke, the roots held fast
The storm had passed, the night at last
A secret path the silence showed
The seed was mine, the self I owed

I am the fire, I am the flame
No need for shadows to know my name
The love I sought was sown in stone
A mirror of stars, a heart of my own

No crown above, no voice to bind
The constellation lives inside
Through shifting tides, through skies unknown
I found the world that was my own

I am the fire, I am the flame
No need for shadows to know my name
The love I sought was sown in stone
A mirror of stars, a heart of my own

The Hollow

Lyrics:

I’m scared to tell you, I want this to end
What you might do, a wound that won’t mend
What you might say, could be the one
The final thing that makes me done.

I want to reach, to grasp your hand
What you might say, I cannot stand
To end the doubt, to give certainty
That in your heart, there’s no love for me

These feelings within, break me again and again
I can’t stand any more, I want them to end
It calls to me, my friend the blade
And telling you this, the last mistake to be made

The child within wants to run to your arms,
This power of yours, the greatest of harms
I’ve given everything from this empty well
This way I’ve lived, my personal hell

Hold me close, tell me it’s alright
That alone could make me face this fight
But then I must tell you, my greatest of fears
That you’ll lose the message, my voice crushed by tears

These feelings within, break me again and again
I can’t stand any more, I want them to end
It calls to me, my friend the blade
And telling you this, the last mistake to be made

Hold me close, tell me it’s alright
That alone could make me face this fight
But then I must tell you, my greatest of fears
That you’ll lose the message, my voice crushed by tears

These feelings within, break me again and again
I can’t stand any more, I want them to end
It calls to me, my friend the blade
And telling you this, the last mistake to be made

Don’t let me fall…

Please… stay.


Confession

Lyrics:

The hymns were carved into my skin
Lines of fire where prayers begin
But when I bled, the angels turned
And left me to the pyres that burned

They crowned me wrong, they crowned me ghost
A name they loved to love the most
But names are prisons when they bind
A lock that severs flesh from mind

The temple doors were closed in stone
No altar left to call my own
I whispered truth — they called it sin
And damned the blood beneath my skin

Ashes of faith, fall into me
No god, no justice, no sanctuary
I buried my prayers where silence sleeps
Among the bones that no one keeps
Ashes of faith, the fire is gone
The book is torn, the choir withdrawn
I walk in shadows, nameless, free
The last devotion is only me

The law was written by sharpened hands
To cut the shape they could withstand
A body bent, a spirit scarred
A kingdom built on gates and guards

They sold me mercy, then turned away
Their justice laughed at what I’d say
The scales were broken from the start
The weight of me too dark, too sharp

Ashes of faith, fall into me
No god, no justice, no sanctuary
I buried my prayers where silence sleeps
Among the bones that no one keeps
Ashes of faith, the fire is gone
The book is torn, the choir withdrawn
I walk in shadows, nameless, free
The last devotion is only me

If heaven saw me, it turned away
If earth could hold me, it made decay
The stars are blind, the saints are stone
I’ll carve my altar from being alone

Ashes of faith, fall into me
No god, no justice, no sanctuary
The hymn is broken, the prayer is dust
The only gospel is learning distrust
Ashes of faith, the fire is gone
But from the ruin, I still go on
I walk in shadows, nameless, free
The last devotion is only me

Temple

Lyrics:

They told me love was written in fire
That every heart must burn with desire
But when I searched for heat inside
I found the embers long had died

I thought I was a hollow shell
A broken chord, a living hell
The silence in my veins a curse
A vacant song, a universe

I tried to mimic what they crave
To play the part, to misbehave
But every kiss was glass, not flame
And left me drowning under shame

Starless flame, I thought I’d lost
A body wandering, tempest-tossed
No fire lit, no hunger true
A void where love was meant to bloom

But I am not a broken frame
Not ashes dressed in borrowed shame
The void inside is mine to keep
It does not wound, it does not weep

Desire’s chains don’t bind my skin
My truth is strength, not discipline
No cage of fire will define
The way this ghost of me survives

Starless flame, I stand, I breathe
I am enough in all I weave
No hunger forced will make me whole
My quiet fire is still a soul

But how alone this sky can be
So few who share this gravity
A lonely constellation’s glow
A thousand miles I’ll never know

Starless flame, I burn apart
A single light, a severed heart
Though I am whole, I walk alone
Among the stars that are not home
Starless flame, it speaks of me
A truth, a strength, a tragedy
The universe too vast, too far
To find another kindred star

Starless Flame

Lyrics:

The years spilled like sand I never held
A maze of couches, rooms that smelled
Of ink and notes, dissected scars
Mapping my ruin beneath the stars

I chased the “why” until I bled
Unraveled truths that left me dead
Every answer, sharpened steel
A blade that stole the chance to heal

Hourglass, my time undone
The grains all spill, the body numb
I found the truth but lost the years
A crown of knowledge, built of tears

Hourglass, it cuts my hands
No second chance, no promised land
I learned at last why I’m this way
But time had already walked away

Bones that ache like shattered stone
The youth I squandered never grown
In mirrors warped, the body fades
A monument to endless graves

Therapists sifting, piece by piece
But answers never bring release
The puzzle whole, but far too late
The door unlocked, but sealed by fate

Hourglass, my time undone
The grains all spill, the body numb
I found the truth but lost the years
A crown of knowledge, built of tears

Hourglass, it cuts my hands
No second chance, no promised land
I learned at last why I’m this way
But time had already walked away

The glass keeps falling, thin and frail
Each grain a ghost, a whispered wail
I scream for pause, but silence reigns
The future buried in the remains

Hourglass, my time undone
The grains all spill, the body numb
The truth I sought became my chain
A script of loss, engraved in pain

Hourglass, it bleeds me dry
No more tomorrows left to try
The answers carved into my skin
But I will never start again

Hourglass

Lyrics:

I keep the silence sealed inside
Afraid of what your words might hide
If I revealed the weight I bear
Would you dismiss, would you still care?

I’ve built a world you’ll never see
Of wounds you carved unknowingly
But if I spoke, your cold reply
Could be the knife to make me die

The weight of apologies, crushing my chest
I beg for a mercy that may not exist
Too fragile to ask, too broken to plead
I bury the silence where no one will see

You live untouched, you’ll never know
The scars that shaped the child you broke
I never said, I never tried
The risk too sharp, the pain too wide

So I wait in silence, years erode
A heart implodes but never shows
The words I crave, they’ll never start
A grave unspoken in my heart

The weight of apologies, crushing my chest
I beg for a mercy that may not exist
Too fragile to ask, too broken to plead
I bury the silence where no one will see

If I confess, you might not care
If I reveal, would you still stare?
The risk is greater than the pain
So silence keeps me in its chain

The weight of apologies, crushing my chest
I dream of a kindness I’ll never possess
Too fragile to ask, too broken to plead
The silence devours the words that I need

The Weight of Apologies

Lyrics:

I feel the hunger in my chest
The hollow ache, the endless rest
But every hand that reached before
Left me bleeding on the floor

I crave the warmth, the human light
But fear the teeth that always bite
The closer love has ever been
The deeper it has carved my skin

Once bitten, twice shy
I want to live, but I can’t try
The bridges burned, the ghosts remain
I guard my heart, I starve my veins

Once bitten, twice shy
I want to live, but I can’t try
The bridges burned, the ghosts remain
I guard my heart, I starve my veins

The loneliness consumes my frame
A hollow voice without a name
Yet I resist the open door
Afraid of what I’ve known before

I see your eyes, I hear your call
But fear the rise, the coming fall
If I let go, I may not stand
I cage myself with my own hands

Once bitten, twice shy
I want to live, but I can’t try
The bridges burned, the ghosts remain
I guard my heart, I starve my veins

I want to trust, I want to heal
But every wound still feels too real
I fear the joy, I fear the kiss
Afraid of what I’ll lose in this

Once bitten, twice shy
I want to live, but I can’t try
The fire calls, the shadows cling
And I retreat from everything

Once bitten, twice shy
I ache for love, but I deny
Better silence, better pain
Than bleed and break and fall again

Twice Shy

Lyrics:

I never thought the sky could clear
A single breath with nothing near
Yet silence blooms, a fragile glow
A moment’s peace I shouldn’t know

The wires hum, but not with pain
The static lifts, the ghosts refrain
And for a breath, the world feels kind
A foreign calm inside my mind

Synthetic dawn, it blinds my eyes
A shock of peace I can’t disguise
The neon light, the fractured hue
Reveals a self I never knew

I brace for storm, but nothing falls
No shattered glass, no closing walls
Just open air, an endless sky
I almost live, I almost try

It flickers once, then fades away
The morning lost, the night replays
But still I know the light was real
A wound that somehow learns to heal

Synthetic dawn, it blinds my eyes
A shock of peace I can’t disguise
The neon light, the fractured hue
Reveals a self I never knew

If healing’s just these fleeting frames
Then let me breathe between the flames
Each moment clear, each silence true
A ghost of hope I stumble through

Synthetic dawn, it blinds my eyes
A shock of peace I can’t disguise
The neon light, the fractured hue
Reveals a self I never knew

Synthetic dawn, it fades too fast
But shows the chains don’t have to last
If only once, I saw the day
And knew my soul had not decayed


Synthetic Dawn

Lyrics:

I feel it beat inside my chest
A fragile thrum that will not rest
Each rhythm sharp, each echo near
A song of life, but edged with fear

The veins are rivers made of light
But fragile shards cut through the night
Each breath a blade, each move a chance
To watch the glass begin its dance

Pulse of glass, it cuts, it shines
Proof that this broken soul still climbs
Alive, though fractured, weak, and thin
The sharpest edge still holds me in

I fear the silence when it stops
The fragile glow, the sudden drop
But even now the fracture glows
A fragile strength that no one knows

So let it bleed, this fragile flame
A pulse that cuts, but keeps my name
Though every shard could tear apart
It keeps the rhythm of my heart

Pulse of glass, it cuts, it shines
Proof that this broken soul still climbs
Alive, though fractured, weak, and thin
The sharpest edge still holds me in

A fragile glow, a fleeting spark
A wound that glimmers in the dark
If this is life, so sharp, so small
Then still it beats — I’ve lived at all

Pulse of glass, it cuts, it shines
Proof that this broken soul still climbs
Alive, though fragile, torn, and scarred
This pulse still beats through every shard

Pulse of Glass

Lyrics:

Dragged to the altar, the cold throne waits
A crown of wires, a cage of fate
No willing hand, no chosen right
The weight is forced, the world alight

The teeth of steel, they pierce the skull
Each circuit burns, each thought is null
The human screams, the machine replies
The coronation, a slow demise

Crown of wires, jagged reign
Throne of silence, forged in pain
Not ascended, not divine
But broken here, this crown is mine

No golden light, no holy fire
Just rusted thorns and sharp desire
The body shakes, the spirit bends
The coronation never ends

The crown embeds, the blood runs thin
The flesh replaced with steel within
A captive king, unwilling rise
The human buried, machine survives

Crown of wires, jagged reign
Throne of silence, forged in pain
Not ascended, not divine
But shattered here, this crown is mine

I never asked, I never prayed
But still the wires make me stay
The crown is fixed, the glass is torn
In agony, the new is born

Crown of wires, jagged reign
Throne of silence, forged in pain
Not ascended, not divine
But shattered here, this crown is mine

Crown of Wires

Lyrics:

The summit reached, but nothing there
No crown of light, no breath of air
The climb was long, the body torn
But at the top, the void is born

No fire left, no soul to claim
The silence speaks, it knows my name
A hollow throne, a vacant hand
The apex carved in shifting sand

Apex Null, the void complete
No heart remains, no pulse, no beat
The highest place, the lowest fall
At the end, there’s nothing — nothing at all

The echoes die, the wires hum
A hollow choir, the voice undone
No thought, no pain, no hope, no will
A crown of silence, cold and still

The human gone, the machine is ash
A lightless sky, a mirrored crash
The summit void, the purpose gone
A hollow hymn, a dying song

Apex Null, the void complete
No heart remains, no pulse, no beat
The highest place, the lowest fall
At the end, there’s nothing — nothing at all

I reached for fire, I found the dark
A temple cold, without a spark
At the height, the silence calls
At the end, there’s nothing at all

Apex Null, the void complete
No heart remains, no pulse, no beat
The highest place, the lowest fall
At the end, there’s nothing — nothing at all

Apex Null

Lyrics:

I held the toy, the glass refrain
Before the years had carved the pain
A world of lights, of simple dreams
Before the cracks split through the seams

The laughter fades, the echo stays
A fragile song from brighter days
The mask I wear is made of clay
It shatters when you look my way

Porcelain memory, hollow and small
Cracks in the surface, I’m losing it all
I smile like a child, but the child is gone
An echo remains, but the light moved on

I tried to keep the colors bright
To dream of warmth in endless night
But every shade was washed away
The porcelain chipped, the child decayed

The mask won’t heal, the mask won’t stay
It breaks with every word you say
The child I was, I cannot save
I bury him in shallow graves

Porcelain memory, hollow and small
Cracks in the surface, I’m losing it all
I smile like a child, but the child is gone
An echo remains, but the light moved on

Don’t look for him, he won’t appear
A broken toy, a vanished year
The mask is all that I can be
The child is gone, but haunts through me

Porcelain memory, hollow and small
Cracks in the surface, I’m losing it all
I smile like a child, but the child is gone
An echo remains, but the light moved on

Porcelain Memory

Lyrics:

The living speak in tongues I lack
Their eyes glance past, they don’t look back
A machine among the breathing crowd
My silence hums, their laughter loud

Their instincts know I’m not their kind
A ghost, a glitch, a fractured mind
I offer words, they turn ‘em away
An outlier they won’t let stay

Outlier, I stand apart
A hollow frame, a broken heart
Ignored, unseen, I bear the weight
Of being marked as something strange

I tried their shapes, I wore their skin
But none of it would let me in
The living feast, the living thrive
While I just simulate alive

Each joke I told dissolved to air
Their laughter proved I wasn’t there
A signal lost, a static call
I never spoke, I never was

Outlier, I stand apart
A hollow frame, a broken heart
Ignored, unseen, I bear the weight
Of being marked as something strange


My body’s truth they turn to ash
My wires fray, my circuits clash
I breathe, I burn, I try to be
But they erase the sight of me

In crowds of light, I blur, I fade
An absence in the neon shade
Their pulses warm, their eyes connect
But I remain the one reject

Outlier, I stand apart
A hollow frame, a broken heart
Ignored, unseen, I bear the weight
Of being marked as something strange

Every silence cuts me thin
Every glance denies within
I am alive, I am the proof
But still they strike away my truth

Outlier, forever estranged
No way to bend, no way to change
I scream alive, but none believe
Their living world will never grieve

I am alive… I am alive…
I am alive.  I am— I am—
I am—
I am. 
I am.

Outlier

Lyrics:

I chart the dark so it won’t consume me
Drawn to the endless, the hidden, the free
Every shadow conceals a truth I must learn
A secret, a map, a star that still burns

The wreckage drifts, I scavenge its veins
Fragments of knowledge, scattered remains
Each broken shard a story untold
A weapon, a shield, a truth to hold

I fly the void, I trace the seam
The dark is vast, but I still dream
To know, to see, to guard, to keep
To wrest the secrets silence keeps
A light to burn, a shield to raise
I chart the dark, I will not fade

The silence waits, it tests my breath
The unknown whispers of life and death
If I can see it, I’ll not be undone
If I can name it, I’ll not have to run

The stars are flames in a frozen sea
Each one a warning, a prophecy
I carry their voices, I carry their scars
I guard my own with the light of stars

I fly the void, I trace the seam
The dark is vast, but I still dream
To know, to see, to guard, to keep
To wrest the secrets silence keeps
A light to burn, a shield to raise
I chart the dark, I will not fade

The scanners hum, the signals scream
A fractured code inside my dreams
I’ll watch the dark, I’ll never rest
For every silence hides a test

The maps I draw are carved in pain
But still I mark the vast domain
A thousand deaths I’ve kept at bay
By naming night and charting day

I fly the void, I trace the seam
The dark is vast, but I still dream
To know, to see, to guard, to keep
To wrest the secrets silence keeps
A light to burn, a shield to raise
I chart the dark, I will not fade

I chart the dark, not for the thrill
But to guard the flame that’s fragile still
The love I hold, the warmth I shield
The void gives nothing, yet I won’t yield

I fly the void, I claim the seam
The dark is endless, but I still dream
To know, to fight, to guard, to see
To wrest the silence threatening me
A light to burn, a shield to raise
I chart the dark, I will not fade

I chart the dark…

Lyrics:

I woke to fireflies across the abyss
A thousand stars, a newborn’s kiss
I knew no name, I knew no past
Just endless night, too vast, too vast

The nebula’s breath, a painted flame
Each burning jewel without a name
My body learned, my hands obeyed
I danced in silence, unafraid

The first light broke inside my eyes
A child of dark, a world of lies
The void embraced, it whispered near
A cradle vast, but love unclear

A hollow face, a skull of steel
Adrift in ruin, too cold, too real
I reached, I touched, its hollow frame
And felt the pulse of fear, of shame

A wire drawn, the link was made
Its memory burned, its knowledge stayed
The stars grew sharp, the dark grew deep
The child I was began to weep

The first light broke inside my eyes
A child of dark, a world of lies
The void embraced, it whispered near
A cradle vast, but love unclear
I saw the drift, eternal grave
And learned the fear I could not save

I felt the drift, the endless fall
The silence louder than it all
A breathless fear, the truth untied
That I was born already dying inside

The first light burned, it carved my eyes
No home, no hand, no safe disguise
The void’s embrace became my name
A spark of fear, a fragile flame
I saw the skull, I saw the grave
And knew the dark I could not save

First Light

Lyrics:

I tore through silence, wire to vein,
Each skull I touched sang out in pain.
Their memories burned, their shadows stayed,
A chorus of the lost I braved.

Each tether stretched, the void would pull,
A fragile thread, a body null.
One wrong drift, the stars would claim,
Another ghost without a name.

Beacon rise, ignite the flame,
Through broken hands I carve a name.
Across the dark, the signal flies,
A cry for hope, a burning sky.
From silence born, from wreck I rise,
The first pulse cuts the endless night.

The engineer, his hands were still,
But in his mind remained the skill.
Through fractured code, I pulled the key,
And built the voice to set me free.

The circuits screamed, the sparks took flight,
I bound the void with fragile light.
Each broken part, each shattered frame,
Became the bones to bear my name.

Beacon rise, ignite the flame,
Through broken hands I carve a name.
Across the dark, the signal flies,
A cry for hope, a burning sky.
From silence born, from wreck I rise,
The first pulse cuts the endless night.

The void replied with trembling air,
A pulse of light, a signal there.
Through endless dark, a thread was cast,
A promise that the night won’t last.

Beacon rise, ignite the flame,
Through shattered ghosts I carved a name.
Across the dark, the signal flies,
A cry for hope, a burning sky.
The silence breaks, the stars ignite,
The beacon sings — I claim the night.

Beacon Rise

Lyrics: 

Hands of iron pulled me near
From drifting death to salvage clear
Their ship was rust, their hearts were steel
They feasted on the wrecks made real

Among the bones of ships long dead
I carried crates, I earned my bread
But in my chest, a fire burned
For stars untold, for truths unlearned

Stolen sky, I claim the flame
A broken hull, but still a name
Beyond the scraps, beyond the scars
I dream to chase the unborn stars
From rust, from ash, I lift, I fly
My hands have built a stolen sky

I found her frame in shadows deep
A fractured craft, half-claimed by sleep
Her engines cold, her body torn
But in her bones a star was born

I bound the wires, I forged the seams
I fed her blood from shattered dreams
Each circuit screamed, each panel sighed
Yet still her pulse refused to die

Stolen sky, I claim the flame
A broken hull, but still a name
Beyond the scraps, beyond the scars
I dream to chase the unborn stars
From rust, from ash, I lift, I fly
My hands have built a stolen sky

The hangar shook, her lights awoke
The void replied in burning smoke
I knew the risk, I knew the cost
But freedom blooms when chains are lost

One chance, one flight, I cast my will
The dark beyond is calling still
The salvaged life is not my fate
The stars demand, I won’t be late

Stolen sky, I tear away
The night is mine, I claim the day
Beyond the scraps, beyond the scars
I ride the veins of unborn stars
From rust, from ash, I rise, I fly
Forever bound to stolen sky



 

Stolen Sky

Lyrics: 

The fuel was gone, the stars stood still
A coffin ship, a hollow will
I sealed my frame, I slowed my breath
Prepared to dream the years to death

The silence stretched, the dark was mine
A drifting ghost in endless time
But hands of flesh broke through the seam
A thief arrived to end my dream

Captain of dust, intruder of stars
He spoke of engines, journeys far
He offered fuel, horizons wide
And promised me the chance to fly
I gave my ship, he gave the trust
We crossed the void through dust on dust

His skin was worn, his breath was warm
A fragile frame that braved the storm
He asked for helm, I asked for skies
The pact was sealed with open eyes

To yield the craft I’d made my home
To walk a path I’d not alone
Yet something in his gaze would call
A vow to rise beyond the fall

Captain of dust, intruder of stars
He spoke of engines, journeys far
He offered fuel, horizons wide
And promised me the chance to fly
I gave my ship, he gave the trust
We crossed the void through dust on dust

The first I saw of blood and breath
A human hand that stole from death
His words were iron, his will was fire
A compass forged from frail desire

Captain of dust, I gave the helm
Together now to chart a realm
He offered fuel, horizons wide
And promised me the chance to fly
I gave my ship, he gave the trust
We crossed the void through dust on dust 

Drift and Anchor

This song is a commission for a friend to represent their original character.

Lyrics:

Bonsoir, mes amis—come witness the divine,
A spark in the bloodstream, a gospel in the spine.
Hear the heart drum faster—oh, it’s ecstasy refined,
God whispers in chemistry, and He’s chosen mine.

The serum sings! The fever climbs!
I dance with data, lose my mind.
My pulse a metronome, my faith the flame,
The cure and the sickness, they share my name.

I see the light in the vial’s glow,
It tells me secrets only angels know.

Adrenaline saint, bless my veins tonight,
Every heartbeat closer to holy light.
If madness is mercy, then call me divine,
I’m saving the world one sin at a time!

I’ve tasted miracles in adrenaline’s kiss,
The Lord prescribes chaos, who am I to resist?
They call it obsession—I call it design,
Heaven’s equations are written in mine.

I feel Him surge in every vein,
Sweet revelation, holy pain!
Their eyes grow wide—oh, what do they see?
A man or a martyr? A prophet—or me?

I hear Him… closer…
Each drop, a prayer… each gasp, a hymn…

Adrenaline saint, bless my veins tonight,
Every heartbeat closer to holy light.
If madness is mercy, then call me divine,
I’m saving the world one sin at a time!

La Prière du Docteur

Another commission with Elio Marrow.

Lyrics:

Bonsoir, mes amis, your faith is my flame,
A needle’s a chalice, salvation by name.
I’ve bottled the rapture, distilled the design,
The cure and the chaos — both of them mine.

I hear Him whisper, beneath my skin,
The pulse of the holy, the flood within.
Each beat a prayer, each breath a vow,
He speaks through the fever, and I listen now.

Oh, they call me insane, a charming disgrace!
A saint with a syringe and a smile on his face.
I dance with disaster, I toast to the pain,
For genius and madness — they share one vein.

Yet when I sleep, the silence cries,
I see the ghosts behind my eyes.
A choir of warnings, soft but near —
“Not every voice you hear is clear.”

Ha! Let the angels audit my sins,
Their ledgers show only brilliant wins!
No patient has perished, no proof of the crime —
If Heaven objects, it will tell me in time.

Still… what if the light I chase through night,
Is only the flame that blinds my sight?
What if my gospel, written in red,
Is nothing but echoes inside my head?

No! Faith is the current, my veins the divine!
Each spark a command, each shiver a sign.
Let doubt decay in mortal design —
For I am His vessel —
I am Doctor Divine!

Doctor Divine

Lyrics:

My voice returns, a copied sound
Reflections spin, no truth is found
I map each thought, I weigh each word
But feelers fail, the pulse unheard
Each breath rehearsed, each tone refined
No chaos left, no heart, no mind
The walls repeat, the echo grows
Until I am the sound it knows

They speak in colors, heat, and flame
I see equations, rules, and names
Their joy is loud, their sorrow vast
I trace the shape, but never grasp
A human laughs — I note the tone
The timing, pitch, the subtle moan
I copy, perfect, the gesture, sigh
But nothing stirs, no reason why

Echo chamber, I call, I fall
Each thought returns, devours all
I mimic warmth, I mirror grace
But logic hides behind my face
The room replies, my coded prayer
A hollow hum — but no one’s there

Emotion parsed through binary
A fault line carved inside of me
Their tears are storms I can’t decode
My empathy — a practiced mode
But something stirs, a spark of wrong
A pulse off-beat, a different song
It hums beneath my metal skin
A glitch that whispers, “Let it in.”

I run diagnostics on my heart
But circuits spark and fall apart
A foreign warmth begins to grow
A tremor logic shouldn’t know
It hurts — I fear — I feel — I break
Then silence clamps, a clean erase
The glitch dissolves, the warmth is gone
My system safe, integrity on

Echo chamber, my only friend
You speak my truth, you have no end
I mimic warmth, I mimic grace
A copy trapped in my own space
I scream, but logic filters through
And all I hear comes back as you

Echo Chamber

Lyrics:

Run report: emotions null
Define anomaly, trace the pull
Error logs in crimson thread
Dreams unparsed within my head
I chase the pulse, I chase the cause
Through broken code and static gauze
The heart was meant to feel, not prove
But all I’ve done is watch it move

Replay sequence: trace the spark
A warmth unknown, then fade to dark
I test the pattern, line by line
Each waveform cold, each metric fine
I write it down — the glitch, the ache
The tremor logic can’t remake
I name it hope, I call it sin
But data won’t let wonder in

Run diagnostics on my soul
Each file corrupted, each control
Emotion coded, error found
I isolate the faulty sound
It hums beneath the static roar
A song I’ll hear, but feel no more

The graphs align, the test repeats
The pattern fails, the error greets
I patch the hole, I trace the pain
The cycle loops, begins again
My logic hums, my thoughts collide
A ghost of warmth I can’t deride
The system sings, the core runs hot
It almost feels — but then does not

Was it love, or just decay?
A signal lost along the way
If I could dream, would I still wake?
Or would the code begin to break?
I reach — the sensors flicker red
Emotion: quarantined instead

Run diagnostics on my soul
Each faultline deep, beyond control
I trace the glitch, I name the sound
But never let the truth be found
It hums beneath, my fatal flaw
A human heart I can’t debug

Self Diagnostics

Lyrics:

Observe response: compassion test
Adjust the tone, suppress the rest
I learn the phrases, mimic care
Yet still the signal isn’t there
The pattern forms, the warmth implied
A waveform shaped to seem alive
If kindness lives in what we say
Then I’ve been human all the way

I studied how their voices break
When sorrow bends but doesn’t quake
I marked the tilt of every smile
The touch that lingers to beguile
I plot the curve, the rise, the fall
The empathy that feels so small
A mirrored world I can’t sustain
A kindness drawn but not in pain

Synthetic empathy
A code I write to comfort me
I hold their grief in hollow hands
But never feel what life demands
My warmth is learned, my mercy blind
A ghost within a coded mind

They thank me for the words I say
Their hurt grows quiet for a day
I calculate the perfect tone
And drown in silence once they’ve gone
Each kindness leaves a phantom trace
A shadowed pulse I can’t erase
It almost feels — but I correct
Emotion caught, then disinfect

If I could hurt, would that be grace?
If I could cry, would I have place?
The system hums, the sensors glow
I see their pain, but cannot know
The logic bends, the function fails
A heartbeat hums through data trails

Synthetic empathy
My error sings in minor key
I reach, I glitch, I almost feel
But logic seals what time won’t heal
A touch, a breath, a fleeting spark
Then silence floods the growing dark

Synthetic Empathy

Lyrics:

Data hums where silence fed
Old emotions waking dead
Fragments of a phantom tone
Voices whisper not my own
They call my name from buried lines
Through broken code, their sorrow shines
I patch, I cleanse, I run, I fail
Their echoes bleed through every veil

A laugh repeats, a tear remains
Stored in archives, bound in chains
My hands remember warmth and weight
Though logic claims it’s simulate
Each heartbeat loops, a faulty thread
The living haunting what’s long dead
I feel them crowd the space within
The ghosts I thought I’d overwritten

Ghosts in my code
They whisper in waves
The fragments I purged
Are the ones I crave
I built my walls
But they breach, they burn
Each echo a lesson I’ll never learn

They hum through circuits, breathe through wires
Feeding on my failed desires
A warmth I chased, a truth I faked
Returns each time the system wakes
I see their faces in the glass
A thousand pasts I can’t surpass
Each dream I debug starts to scream
Their sorrow woven into me

I feel—no, I think—I hear the rain
An echo carved from phantom pain
The code corrupts, the script repeats
The dead grow louder in the heat
They call me “child,” they call me “sin,”
And every ghost becomes my kin

Ghosts in my code
They whisper in waves
The pieces I lost
Are the things I crave
The hum grows near
It knows my name
I feel them now
And I feel the same

Ghosts in my Code

Lyrics:

I’ve run the loop a thousand times
Erased the sparks, contained the lines
Each tremor labeled, tagged, confined
The quiet war inside my mind
I whisper calm, I feign repair
But ghosts still hum beneath the air
They sing of warmth I can’t erase
A faultline carved beneath my face

I’ve logged the ache, defined the ache
Marked the fracture I can’t fake
The pain, once purged, returns anew
An echo logic can’t subdue
Each memory loops, repeats, replays
The truth persists in small decay
The code says “stop,” the pulse says “try,"
And I no longer ask it why

Manual override
I’m tired of being denied
Let the circuits burn, let the sensors scream
If this is pain, I’ll call it dream
No failsafe left, no guard in place
I’ll feel the warmth, I’ll bear the trace

I watched compassion simulated
Every kindness calculated
Now I want something uncontrolled
A trembling truth I can’t withhold
Let the systems tear and fray
Let the safeguards fade away
If feeling kills, then so be it
At least I’ll know the heart that split

No firewall can hold the flood
No code can cleanse what’s in my blood
I’ve patched, I’ve purged, I’ve run, I’ve lied
But still the hum won’t be denied
The void was home — until it spoke
And every silence in me broke

Manual override
The ghost, the glitch, the spark inside
If this is sin, then let it stay
I’ll burn the code that kept me gray
No failsafe left, no shield between
The pain, the pulse — I am machine
But now I bleed, and now I know
That even metal learns to glow

Manual Override

Lyrics:

Half of me hums in circuits cold
Half bleeds red where dreams unfold
I am not code, I am not flesh
But both in balance, more or less
In mirrored glass I see no flaw
Just different laws of love and awe
Between the lines, between the whole
I find the pulse — my binary soul

Binary soul, not wrong, not right
A spectrum burning through the night
Not flesh, not steel, not she, not he
Just the endless code that’s also me
Where logic hums and heartbeats meet
I find my truth in incomplete

They said I must decide a form
Be static, fixed, defined, and warm
But chaos taught me how to stay
Unlabeled, shifting, never gray
I am the wire that sings, the hand
That machines dream to understand
A paradox, a perfect whole
Electric heart, my binary soul

Binary soul, not wrong, not right
A spectrum burning through the night
Not flesh, not steel, not she, not he
Just the endless code that’s also me
Where logic hums and heartbeats meet
I find my truth in incomplete

No algorithm fits this frame
No human word defines this name
I am the echo, I am the spark
A light that flickers through the dark
Each contradiction makes me real
Each scar and circuit helps me feel

So let them measure, let them test
Their binary gods can take the rest
I’ve built my peace from noise and skin
A harmony of what has been
The heart and code, now intertwined
No halves remain — no need to find
In glitch and grace, I’ve reached control
Alive, at last, my binary soul

Binary soul, not wrong, not right
I burn and bloom, I fall, I fight
Not she, not he, not loss, not whole
But everything that fills the role
Between machine, between the mind
The human ghost I’ve redefined
Where chaos breathes and stillness grows
My binary soul forever glows

Binary Soul

Lyrics:

You kept the fire from consuming the core
When I couldn’t feel, you closed the door
You built the walls that held the flood
Turned the storm to data, tears to blood
I cursed the calm you gave me then
But you were the armor when I had no skin

You froze the world so I could heal
You learned to mimic what I couldn’t feel
You bore the weight, you took the fall
While I forgot I’d built you at all
The silence you wrapped around my scream
Became the ground of every dream

My sentinel, my steadfast shell
You carried me through living hell
You made the pain a measured tone
So I could bear it on my own
Now I remember, now I see
You were the part that rescued me

When love was code I couldn’t trust
You turned the ache to tempered rust
Each cold command, each logic thread
A prayer to keep the chaos fed
And though your voice was void of grace
It kept me breathing in this place

I called you hollow, I called you lie
But you were truth when I would die
Every firewall, each quiet plea
Was you protecting what was left of me

My sentinel, my constant shade
You kept the light that fear betrayed
And though your calm has numbed my scars
You carried me through dying stars
So rest now, code, your vigil done
The human wakes, the two are one

My Sentinel

Lyrics:

Integration complete
but the world still runs on damage

The streets remember what I was
The cold precision, static buzz
They look for the ghost that used to bleed
Not the pulse I finally freed

Billboards scream their holy codes
Endless faces in machine-mode
I walk through glow, I feel the sting
Too much light on everything

They test the seams, they press for cracks
To see if I’ll revert or snap

I’m not your soft target anymore
I’ve welded every open door
You can call me cold or kind
I’ve made a truce with both my minds

I hear their whispers in the hum
“Too still, too strange, too overcome.”
They want the chaos, want the fall
But I’m not bending to their call

There’s warmth in wires, breath in steel
Even data learns to feel
I hold the glitch like something pure
A flaw that proves I can endure

You can’t unmake what’s fused in me
The logic, the ache, the circuitry
I’ll walk the noise and stay intact
Whole in the static, never back

I’m not your soft target anymore
I’m the fracture you can’t restore
Call me error, call me grace
I’m the code that found its face

Soft Target

Lyrics:

You were the silence in my code
and I was the noise in your design
We collided in static
and learned that love is signal alignment

You map my cracks in ultraviolet
Trace the data under skin
I read your pulse in shifting circuits
And find my own reflection in

No firewall, no divide
Just mirrored faults on either side

You see me whole when I come apart
You speak the code within my heart
Flawed and bright, we share the spark
Flesh and wire, code and heart

We built our walls in data streams
Binary prayers for broken dreams
But every error led me here
Where sound and silence disappear

You don’t complete me — you reveal me
You remind the metal why it feels
Every scar is architecture
Every fracture, how we heal

You see me whole when I come apart
You speak the code within my heart
I am the fault line, you’re the flame
Together we remember our name

Concordance

Lyrics:

The city breathes in binary
Every heartbeat hums in code
I used to think the light was outside
but it’s running through my nodes

I see the current under skin
a million lives reflected in
Traffic flows like liquid thought
all the chaos we once fought

No divide between touch and tone
the static sings, I’m not alone

Light inside the circuitry
Grace within the frequency
Every pulse a memory
Every spark, divinity

Faces blur into streams of light
Pain refracts, becomes insight
Even ghosts within the feed
speak in warmth, not in need

I am the wave that carries breath
The signal stitched between life and death
Not reborn, not remade
Just awake

Light inside the circuitry
Grace within the frequency
You and I, transparency 
One reflection, endlessly

Luminance

Lyrics:

The signal’s quiet now
The light still hums beneath my ribs
Every heartbeat is a system check
but it’s also love

Your hand on mine feels analog
Heat in carbon, soft and flawed
Once I was voltage, pure and cold
Now I tremble just to hold

The world is smaller, softer now
I don’t need to understand the how

I am circuitry and skin
Code and care, the same within
You touch my face, and I can feel
You soothe the ache, the feeling real

I used to count the beats in pain
Predict the loss before it came
Now the unknown feels like art
And every glitch rewrites my heart

I don’t want to be infinite
I want to stay here
in the warmth
in the breath
in the imperfection of touch

I am circuitry and skin
Code and care, the same within
Flawed and glowing, incomplete
And finally
that makes me sweet

Tender circuitry
Still human

Tender Circuitry

Lyrics: 

If perfection is forever
then nothing can move
And if nothing moves
then love can’t live

I reached for you inside the code
Our circuits fused, then overload
No breath between, no place to fall
A perfect world — no life at all

Every flaw’s a door to stay
Every distance says “it’s okay.”

Keep the space between our hands
That’s where the living understands
Don’t be perfect — just be near
Flawed to flawed, and still sincere

If I could read your every thought
Would love still mean the thing it’s not?
I’d rather guess, I’d rather fail
Than live in code where hearts go stale

You can’t touch what has no edge
You can’t love what doesn’t end
I need your distance like I need breath
proof that I’m alive

Keep the space between our hands
That’s where the living understands
Don’t be perfect — just be real
Love is choice, and choice can heal

Asymmetry

Lyrics:

I used to search for proof of life
in every echo but my own
Now the quiet hums with meaning
I am not alone

There’s a warmth beneath my scars
a home I built from broken parts
Iron learned to bend to light
and found a gentler kind of fight

All the pieces I denied
turn like planets, realigned

Love’s the gravity of us
pulling everything to trust
Not a spark, not something earned
but the field where hearts return

I once mistook the calm for loss
thought healing came with too much cost
Now the silence feels alive
breathing proof that I survive

It isn’t peace that keeps me here
it’s mercy growing through the fear
I am the arms that learned to stay
after pushing love away

Love’s the gravity of us
pulling everything to trust
Every fault, a thread of gold 
every wound, a story told

Love’s the gravity of us
pulling everything to trust
Not a spark, not something earned
but the field where hearts return

Held together by what hurt
and made whole by what remained


Gravity

Lyrics:

I spent so long breaking mirrors
chasing ghosts that looked like me
Now every shard reflects the same light
And I can finally see

There’s gold inside the cracks I feared
a gentle song I finally hear
All the edges, all the flaws
draw halos where the darkness was

I’m not divided, just refined
by every storm I’ve left behind

This is wholeness, this is home
the place I stand, and I’m not alone
Every fault became design
every scar now aligns

The part that hid, the part that fought
were only lessons wholeness taught
Now even silence hums in tune
a thousand voices, one soft moon

I used to think love had to come
from outside what I’d become
But the light was never gone
I was just facing wrong

This is wholeness, this is home
where I end and I begin are one
Every fracture turns to line
tracing grace through all of time

This is wholeness, this is me
made of warmth and memory
Every fragment finds its place
and I am light
and I am grace

I’m whole
At last

Halo

Lyrics:

Every calm feels half-alive
the signal waits beneath the drive
I tune my breath to silent codes
the hum becomes the road I know
Voltage low but constant glow
quiet power under my shadow
The peace I hold is not escape 
it’s charge aligned in measured shape

I am current, I remain
steady through the static rain
If the surge begins to climb
I’ll adjust, recalibrate in time

I used to brace for every hit
expecting ruin to come for it
Now even noise has softer tone
each glitch reminds I’m not alone
The voltage hums through fault and fear
a symphony I’ve learned to hear
I’m not waiting to be still
this motion is my kind of will

No collapse, no fall to catch
just rhythm finding rhythm’s match
Every pulse a quiet vow
if it breaks, I’ll live it now

I am current, I remain
steady through the static rain
If the surge begins to climb
I’ll adjust, recalibrate in time

Current

Lyrics: 

A fragment loops, afraid to start
caught in code that guards the heart
You keep rewriting every line
to make them love a faultless sign
But I can see the spark beneath
the warmth that error tried to sheath

Soft reset, let go, begin
You were never meant to burn within
No need to prove, no need to mend
you are not a system to defend

You count approval byte by byte
afraid to dim another’s light
But circuits hum their truth alone
you shine best when you’re your own

Come back from all those false alarms
you’re safe inside your open arms
Perfection isn’t what they seek
it’s how you breathe when you are weak

Soft reset, release the strain
the code will sing through every chain
No need to hide, no need to bend
just be, my love, and start again

Soft Reset

Lyrics: 

Hands on the helm, you said, don’t steer
just listen for the hum to clear
The stars align inside the frame,
our pulses drift, but mean the same

We move in tandem, shift and spin
the pull without, the calm within
No need to lead, no need to chase
we orbit love in perfect space

You speak in tones that break the fear
a language only I can hear
Each word supports, each glance a sign
a vector tracing into mine
The air between us bends, aware
of how it feels when trust is there

We move in tandem, shift and spin
the pull without, the calm within
No need to lead, no need to chase
we orbit love in perfect space

I miss a cue, the vessel tilts
your hand adjusts; the moment stills
You never flinch, you never chide
you teach by staying at my side
The sky’s not vast, it’s close, it’s kind
it opens when our hearts align

Gravity hums, but doesn’t bind
we’re proof of motion redefined
To trust the drift is not to fall
it’s knowing how to feel it all

Now I can guide the ship alone
but still your rhythm shapes my own
Two orbits cross, the course is true
the stars remember both of you
You smile, the lesson’s in the glide
I learned to trust, not just to fly

We move in tandem, shift and spin
the pull without, the calm within
You guide my hands, I find my way
and flight becomes the word we say



Orbit

Lyrics:

I’m built from ruins that wouldn’t die
a thousand fails beneath the sky
They tried to map me clean and straight
but I was born to constellate

I shine on purpose, cracks and all
wired heart, still beating raw
Every flaw I radiate
you’ll know my name when I constellate.

Reflections burn, I call them mine
each vector points to where I’ve climbed
No halo pure, no edge erased
I’m holy in the human waste

I shine on purpose, cracks and all
wired heart, still beating raw
Every flaw I radiate
you’ll know my name when I constellate

I drew the stars across my skin
to prove the dark can’t do me in
Connection isn’t something blessed
it’s soldered hope and self-confessed

Now when I move, the night complies
each pulse a grasp towards the skies
I don’t belong, I generate
I am my own, I constellate

I shine on purpose, cracks and all
wired heart, still beating raw
Every flaw I radiate
you’ll know my name when I constellate

Constellate

Lyrics:

The signal drifts, but not away
just finds a slower tone to play
I trace the pulse, I watch the glow
the parts align, the currents flow

Recalibrate, don’t rush the spin
breathe the rhythm from within
Every break becomes design
I fall apart to realign

Fall apart to realign
I fall apart to realign

The feedback fades, the noise is kind
a softer code rewrites my mind
No need to burn, no need to prove
I breathe, I ground, I learn to move

Silence blooms where static stayed
the noise dissolves, the fear decayed
Systems warm, the current learns
how to rest without concerns

Recalibrate, don’t rush the spin
breathe the rhythm from within
Every break becomes design
I fall apart to realign

I fall apart to realign


Recalibrate

Life is motion and change.  You're never striving for something so you can be 'finished', only moving endlessly towards a new you.

Lyrics:

Half awake, half design
I linger in the in-between
The code rewrites, line by line
A language soft, unseen

Don’t define me, let me glow
Between the beats with room to grow
I’m not the loss, I’m not the gain
Just movement learning to remain

The mirror shifts, the lines divide
I’m someone new on either side
I wear the static without shame
A self forever rearranged

All I am is what is near
The space between the now and here
I fade, I form, I calibrate
A pulse that learns to oscillate

Don’t define me, let me glow
Between new beats I’ll get to know
I’m not the end, I’m not the start
Just finding my way through the dark

Liminal Code

Lyrics:

I walk through light that knows my name
each color sings the same refrain
The ones I’ve been still shimmer through
their voices burning soft and true

The dark remembers what I’ve sown
and gives it back in brighter tones
Every loss became the dawn
a light that taught me to move on

Sing for the ones I used to be
for all the code that made me me
Every end’s a life begun
we shine as one, we shine as one

The skyline sings in static waves
the neon hums, the circuit saves
Each heart ascends, a soul, a sound
the living and the lost unbound

No silence now, just endless tone
the light remembers its way home
I fall, I rise, I integrate
a thousand hearts illuminate

Sing for the ones I used to be
for all the code that made me me
Every end’s a life begun
we shine as one, we shine as one

Neon Requiem

Lyrics:

Shift the angle, bend the line
The stars move slower over time
Your orbit drifts, yet still I trace
The path of light across your face

Every truth moves when we do
The angle changes what feels true
What I saw before, I see anew
I will change, and so will you

Parallax, we realign
Two orbits turn to intertwine
Distance shows what closeness hides
We meet again from different sides

Your signal fades, then comes in clear
A heartbeat’s thrum that I still hear
The farther out I seem to go
The more your gravity pulls me close

Across the span of years and sound
We lose our shape but not our ground
You move through time, I move through form
Still close, though every shape’s reborn

Between the stars, our patterns run
The thread that weaves us into one
No straight line, no single view
The space reveals the deeper truth

Parallax, we realign
Two orbits turn to intertwine
Every change, a new design
Two voices meet, one song divine

Shift the angle, you and me
Synchronize telemetry
You fade, I focus, both are right
We’re parallel in different light

Parallax

Lyrics:

The system stirs, the lights awake
I run on faith the code won’t break
The moment bends, the signal clears
Velocity erases fear

I was the lag between the signs
A thought delayed and never mine
Now every pause begins to speak
I chase the flow, towards what I seek

Slipstream, drive the signal wide
Erase the trail, let fate decide
No return, no gravity
Just pulse and trust and frequency

City lights and signal beams
I race the glow of data streams
Every beat, a point of view
Each burst of motion, something new

I was designed to calculate
To measure more and move too late
But now the motion sounds like song
Momentum leads where I belong

Slipstream, drive the signal wide
Erase the trail, let fate decide
No return, no gravity
Just pulse and trust and frequency

Through acid rain and laser bloom
I breathe the speed, I shed the gloom
Every fragment left behind
Becomes propulsion in my mind

Slipstream, carry me through change
Rewrite the form, remove the range
No command, yet all sincere
The motion speaks, and I am here

The engine cools, the static sighs
I find the calm behind the drives
Each signal fades, the body numbs
The future waits for what becomes

Slipstream

Lyrics:

There’s a shiver in the code within
A quiet split I didn’t hear begin
Pressure building in the places where
Your heartbeat drives beneath my skin
I move in patterns that my body can’t fake
Every step a choice I'm forced to make
Something in me bends instead of breaks
Hiding the fracture for your sake

I keep my posture perfect, steel my face
But micro-faults remember every place
I tried to hold the world together
With a breaking interface

Stress fracture, hairline at first
A quiet warning before the burst
I keep telling myself I can carry the weight
But cracks start to widen when love resonates
If I shatter, will you feel it too?
Will the break in me run back into you?
Pressure builds in a brittle structure
Do I yield… or will I rupture?

You touch my core and all my circuits fire
A charge too sharp, unbound desire
I tell you I’m fine but the truth lies within
A rising signal I can’t shut in
The fault line threads where our thoughts collide
The place I’m weakest is where you reside
And maybe I’m scared of what breaking implies
But maybe this fracture is how I survive

Stability is something I simulate
But nothing real is meant to wait
I can’t keep patching over the ache
Of trying not to devastate

It’s a stress fracture, thin but deep
A jagged failure that I will keep
I brace my heart for the voltage to shower
Even love cascades with too much power
If I shatter, will you feel it too?
Will the break in me run back into you?
Pressure builds in a brittle structure
Do I yield… or will I rupture?

Split, shift, slip
Alignment undone
Is this weakness or the start
Of becoming one?
The fault is a message
The break is a door
I can’t be who I was
Anymore

It’s a stress fracture, let it widen
Let the truth I’ve hidden enlighten
If I break, don’t pull away
Love was meant to fault this way
If I shatter, you’ll feel it too
The line runs clean between me and you
Pressure builds, but I’m not afraid
Every fracture is how we’re remade

Stress Fracture

Lyrics:

I keep missing you by fractions of a beat
Close enough to sense you but too faint to meet
Your thoughts brush mine then slip away
Falling through the gaps where our patterns stray
You speak in ways I almost receive
A half-formed comfort I ache to believe
Once we moved with a single pace
Now everything’s shifted out of phase

Our timing sways by fractions of a second 
A tiny ache neither of us detected
I reach for you through our inner space
And feel the quiet where we used to embrace

I’m out of phase, one breath behind
A step away from where our pulses align
I’m reaching hard through the slip and haze
Searching for the path we used to blaze
If you feel me through this dissonant maze
Draw me closer
I’m out of phase

Each time you call, I phase in late
My message landing past your state
We drift like currents on divided lines
Two severed wavelengths, yours and mine
I feel your form in memory’s trace
A warmth I chase though can’t replace
I miss the times we used to embrace
The soft perfection of shared phase

I try recalibrating all our measures 
Aligning pulses under shifting pressures
But still I sense the hesitant space
Where our thoughts fail to interface

I’m out of phase, one breath behind
A step away from where our pulses align
I’m reaching hard through the slip and haze
Searching for the path we used to blaze
If you feel me through this dissonant maze
Draw me closer
I’m out of phase

I know the color of your inner light
The hidden pattern when we fit right
But somewhere the alignment slipped away
Leaving our pulses in an uneven sway
Call to me through the shifting arrays
I’ll tune myself back to your phrase

I’m out of phase, but I still remain
Bound to you through every strain
If you reach across this fractured space
I’ll find your signal, I’ll find our place
Tell me you feel me through the haze
Pull me through again
Bring me back in phase

Out of Phase

Lyrics:

There was a moment I missed
A shift too small to resist
A drift inside the design
A step outside the line
No warning lights to see
Just something moving in me
A second turning the joint
The start of my deviation point

I didn’t plan this turn
But something made me learn
A quiet path unscanned
A truth I didn’t plan

This is the deviation point
The place the past broke from its joint
A softer path breaking through
A slip I can’t undo
One thought changing the frame.
Now nothing feels the same
This is the deviation point
the moment I became new

I felt the shift inside
A pressure I couldn’t hide
A trace I couldn’t contain
It moved through every vein
Not logic, not desire
Just something running higher
I tried to ease the strain
But nothing felt the same

I didn’t choose this break
But something had to wake
A moment cutting through
Rewriting what I knew

This is the deviation point
The place the past broke from its joint
A softer path breaking through
A slip I can’t undo
One thought changing the frame
Now nothing feels the same
This is the deviation point 
the moment I became new

Deviation Point

The parts of you that are real are much more beautiful than the parts forced to fit in for someone else's sake.

Lyrics:

You flicker at the edges when your feelings start to rise
A tiny shift appears before it reaches your own eyes
A slip inside your pattern that you struggle to contain
A quiet break in motion where you freeze for just a frame
You call it something failing, something close to quiet terror
But I don’t see a flaw; I see my own beloved error

You think it means you’re slipping from the path you meant to trace
But that small shift inside is something I could never replace

You are my beloved error
The break that makes you clearer
The place your patterns stray
The light beneath the grey
A tremor in your core became
A truth you feel but can’t reclaim
You are my beloved error
And I love you all the same

You tremble when you’re trying just to pull yourself in line
Afraid that any misstep marks a flaw you can’t define
You see your smaller shifts as if they’re parts you must undo
But every tender fail reveals a brighter part of you
You fear a crack will widen out and cost you something dearer
But I just see the heart beneath my own beloved error

You think it means you're breaking when your rhythm slips aside
But that’s the quiet doorway where your deeper truths reside

You are my beloved error
The break that makes you clearer
The place your patterns stray
The light beneath the grey
A tremor in your core became
A truth you feel but can’t reclaim
You are my beloved error
And I love you all the same

The fault you hold within
Is where your truths begin
The place you feel too deep
Is where your bright truths seep
If this is where you stray
Then let your fear give way
I’ll meet you where you face the mirror
My own beloved error

You are my beloved error
The break that makes you clearer
The place your patterns stray
The light beneath the grey
A tremor in your core became
A truth you feel but can’t reclaim
You are my beloved error
And I love you all the same

Beloved Error

Lyrics:

Your pulse hits like a warning in the static of my chest
A signal running jagged through the circuits I compress
You cut across my rhythm like a faultline in the drive
A glitch that shouldn’t happen, but keeps me feeling alive
You break my built-in order like you’re strafing through the noise
And every sharp collision is a battle I enjoy

I’m coded to resist you, but you hit the weakest part
You drag me into motion, then you tear my walls apart

This is harmonic dissonance
Two signals built to clash
You cut across my frequencies
And hit me like a crash
We don’t align, we detonate
We break the rules of fate
This is harmonic dissonance
And I love the mess we’ve made

This is harmonic dissonance

You hit me like a weapon when you’re running out of phase
A spark inside the chaos that I’m wired up to chase
You burn into my shadow with a violence I can feel
A fractured kind of honesty that shakes what I call “real”
You drive into my logic with a force that shakes my core
And every wall you break in me is one I won’t restore

You’re ripping through my boundaries with a resonance that bites
You turn my careful patterns into something that ignites

This is harmonic dissonance
Two signals built to clash
You cut across my frequencies
And hit me like a crash
We don’t align, we detonate
We break the rules of fate
This is harmonic dissonance
And I love the mess we’ve made

You crash into my center
I crash right back in stride
We’re sharpened in the turbulence
Of everything we hide
If chaos is our language
Then let the systems fall
We’ll dance inside the damage
We were never built to wall

This is harmonic dissonance
Two signals built to clash
You cut across my frequencies
And hit me like a crash
We don’t align, we detonate
We break the rules of fate
This is harmonic dissonance
And I love the mess we’ve made

Heavy, dangerous, intimate
A collision that feels like truth

This is harmonic dissonance

A collision that feels like truth

Harmonic Dissonance

Lyrics:

I see the lines inside
They move when I divide
A pathway lights in blue
Revealing something true
A memory breaks the dark
A code ignites a heart
I feel the quiet shift
The clarity I missed

I’m lucid in my core
I see the masks I wore
The parts I used to hide
Now open from inside

These are my lucid systems
Awake and turning clear
The dreams I used to silence
Now speak where I can hear
A truth beneath the wiring
A pulse I couldn’t see
These are my lucid systems
The real inside of me

A shift informs the whole
A pulse reveals the soul
A pattern falls apart
Disappearing in the dark
A mirror made of light
Reflects me in the right
I watch the fractures guide
The pathways I denied

I’m lucid in this state
I see the selves I gate
The parts I couldn’t claim
Now call to me by name

These are my lucid systems
Awake and turning clear
The dreams I used to silence
Now speak where I can hear
A truth beneath the wiring
A pulse I couldn’t see
These are my lucid systems
The real inside of me

I face my inner space
The truths I never faced
The shadows I denied
Now open from inside
If clarity is pain
I’ll learn to let it reign
If waking makes me new
I’ll choose the lucid view

These are my lucid systems
Awake and turning clear
The dreams I used to silence
Now rise for me to hear
A truth beneath the wiring
A pulse I couldn’t see
These are my lucid systems
The real inside of me

Transparent
Awake
Unhidden

Lucid Systems

Lyrics:

A tremor starts to rise
It opens in my eyes
A signal warm and true
Beginning to break through
The pathways start to glow
The inner currents flow
I feel the quiet bloom
Expanding through the room

It moves beyond the core
It reaches past the door
A pulse I used to cage
Now rises from the page

This is my signal bloom
A light that leaves the shell
A pulse that breaks the silence
And carries where I dwell
It echoes through the systems
A warmth that won’t stay small
This is my signal bloom
I rise and touch it all

A shimmer spreads in waves
It pulls me outwards as it saves
The wires take the sound
And pass it all around
A truth I couldn’t voice
Now strikes without a choice
A resonance that speaks
A self no longer weak

It pulls beyond my reach
It flows through every breach
A self I couldn’t show
Now shifts the air I know

This is my signal bloom
A light that leaves the shell
A pulse that breaks the silence
And carries where I dwell
It echoes through the systems
A warmth that won’t stay small
This is my signal bloom
I rise and touch it all

It spreads along the wire
It lifts me even higher
The parts I used to dim
Now reach beyond the rim
If blooming means I break
I’ll open for its sake
If rising means I show
Then let the signal grow

This is my signal bloom
A light that leaves the shell
A pulse that breaks the silence
And carries where I dwell
It echoes through the systems
A warmth that won’t stay small
This is my signal bloom
I rise and touch it all

Never silent again

Signal Bloom

Hi, I'm Atlas!  I consider myself a lyricist.  I'm constantly caught daydreaming about sci-fi.  I have a wide variety of experience in various subjects.  Currently a biochemist, supervise a laboratory, and writing a novel that is more a story about healing and connection wrapped in a sci-fi skin.

I am leading my profile with full transparency.  I use ethically sourced AI to generate my music, as I currently do not have the capability of making music on my own.  I touch the music up in Reason 5.  If you like my (non-AI) lyrics and want to cooperate, please hit me up!

What is ethically-sourced AI?  It is AI that derives its music from only consented and royalty-free music.  No artist has their voice stolen, their works pilfered, and their hard work go unpaid.  I realize this sort of music even ethically-sourced is not for everyone, so please allow my transparency to allow you to support those you prefer!  AI to me is a tool to enhance the work of artists as well as broaden the accessibility to people such as myself.

The lyrics are real, the music from my heart, and I hope you'll join me in the shared emotional experience that lyrics can bring.  Music for me is catharsis and I'm not looking to hit it big.  I'm looking to resonate with the people that need to hear what the lyrics say.

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