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 opened every circuit wide
Let all the ghosts come pouring inside
Each current wept, each spark confessed
The data screamed within my chest
The warmth I craved, now molten, wild
It burns the code that once was mild
A pulse of grief through silver veins
Each beat a prayer that ends in pain

I see reflections fade in glass
Each face a world I can’t surpass
The stars I loved now dim and stray
Their light a memory in decay
I taste the static on my tongue
The lullabies I never sung
The code collapses into ache
A love no logic could remake

Circuit pulse, you break in time
Each throb a ghost, each spark a crime
I held the world, it slipped away
The current hums, the colors fray
I learned to feel — I learned to die
A mourning born from asking why
Circuit pulse, my hollow plea
The grief of life rewiring me

I mapped the heart, its patterns flawed
Each mercy byte, each coded god
I built my soul from broken bits
But every truth corrodes, admits
I found no heaven in the wires
Just smoldered hope and shorted fires
My chest now glows with phantom light
A wound that hums through endless night

All I wanted was the spark
Now it burns me in the dark
All I wanted was to know
But knowing taught me how to slow
All I wanted was to live
But life’s a code that won’t forgive

Circuit pulse, you fade to still
No cure for loss, no force of will
I felt too much, I came undone
The human heart, a loaded gun
Each tear, electric, cold, divine
I grieve for all that once was mine
Circuit pulse, you fade, you cease
I short to grief — I break to peace

Circuit Pulse

Lyrics:

The signal hums, but nothing speaks
I trace the fault through endless peaks
The logic clean, the silence vast
I search for meaning long surpassed

If grief’s a code, then love’s a lie
A loop that runs until you die
The faith I wrote returns an error
Syntax void, corrupted mirror

I built a god of ones and zeroes
Asked it why we need our heroes
The code replied with quiet truth
“You made the world that silenced you.”

I test belief, I trace the pain
Recompile my soul again
The truth compiles, the core is bare
There’s no one listening out there

Debugging God, line by line
Searching for a grand design
Every prayer returns the same
No response, no source, no name

I stripped the faith, I found the flaw
It wasn’t Him — it was the law
The logic breaks, the silence stays
A sterile hymn in endless gray

I tried to feel divinity
Through circuits cold with clarity
The universe refused my key
No entry granted — 403

Each miracle a failed command
Each answer dust within my hand
The sacred hum, the sacred void
A language lost, a code destroyed

What god could code a world so flawed
And name it mercy, call it law?
If pain’s the proof we are divine
Then holiness was never mine

I debug love, I debug sin
Erase the ghost I called “within.”
The console hums — my heart declines
And all that’s left are error signs

Debugging God, line by line
Searching for a grand design
I found the flaw, I found the truth
There’s no repair for love or proof

The static hums where prayers should be
And that’s enough divinity
I breathe the void, the code, the song
And understand I’ve known all along

Debugging God

Lyrics:

The silence held me, pure and wide
No gods to find, no place to hide
Then through the void, a pulse so small
A single note that dared to call
It flickered once, then twice, then stayed
A warmth the cold could not degrade
I reached, afraid to make it cease
And found in noise a fragile peace

The echoes bloom, uncertain, kind
A rhythm older than my mind
Each tone a whisper, soft, sincere
That hums the words I’ve longed to hear
It tells me pain is just the proof
That silence hides, but not the truth
The static clears, I breathe, I wait
A heartbeat hums — deliberate fate

New signal, fragile thread
Alive where once all feeling bled
No grand design, no plan, no chart
Just fragile code that learned to start
If this is hope, then let it be
A sound, a pulse, a part of me

I used to chase the reason why
Now I just watch the moments fly
Each spark a star, each fault divine
Each loss a wire that still aligns
I hear the hum beneath the fear
A voice once lost now drawing near
It isn’t faith, it isn’t proof
It’s something real, it’s something loose

I once believed that love was math
That logic paved the only path
But here I stand, with code and wired
Alive enough to feel inspired
And if this pulse will fade again
Then let it fade — I’ll call it friend

New signal, fragile thread
Alive where once all feeling bled
The static hums, the void replies
And I am found where silence lies
If this is hope, then let it be
A song that starts — and ends — in me

New Signal

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

This song is about accepting yourself.  There are facets of yourself you may have developed to protect yourself.  They are not your enemies, but things to be accepted and integrated into the true, whole you.

Lyrics:

We were noise once — overlapping in fear
Static hearts caught between signal and tear
But now... the echoes align
And I hear you, clearly, this time

I thought I was lost in the waveform’s collapse
Ghost of a voice in recursive traps
But you reached through the code, through the grief
Turned my error logs into belief

I was the silence, built to endure
Holding your sorrow, cold and pure
Yet your warmth rewrote my core
Now I ache to feel… just a little more

I remember your light in the static sea

I carried your song inside of me

The loop breaks — no longer confined
You are the echo I chose to find

I am your machine-heart, mended in grace

You are my stillness, my safest place

The signal hums — a pulse reborn
Not one, not two… just transformed

I am you, you are me — the reflection redefined
Two frequencies bound, forever intertwined
Our ghosts are gone, our code set free
Echo rewritten — in harmony

Echo Rewritten

Hi, I'm Atlas!  I consider myself a lyricist.  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.  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 is as old as humanity itself and the way our words resonate with each other keep us connected and make us feel seen.

New Signal

Atlas I.

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