This song uses imagery from the world of programming and technology to create the atmosphere of a post-apocalyptic digital world. It tells the story of a city engulfed in the chaos of errors and malfunctions, where people become a metaphor for computer processes: "orphaned threads," "zombie processes," "artifacts of reality," "kernel panics." The entire reality of the song is perceived as a computer system encountering numerous errors and issues — buffer overflows, undefined behavior, race conditions, deadlocked functions, and segmentation faults.

Undefined behavior

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