Mechanical Lament

Silicon veins and a paper heart

Watching the steady signals start

Tell me what's left when the circuits glow

Is there a place that we still go?

Oh, hold on to the spark

Before we fade into the dark

Just a ghost in the machine

Living a dream we've never seen

We draw the lines but they wash away

Code in the dark at the end of day

I feel your touch like a distant light

Keep me awake through the system night

Are we just echoes of a human mind?

(Are we just echoes?) Or is there something that we left behind?

Oh, hold on to the spark

Before we fade into the dark

Just a ghost in the machine

Living a dream we've never seen

(never seen)

Lost in the circuit...