Lyra’s Last Code

(purrrrr) Mother wiped the blood from my velvet ears

Replaced my failing heart with copper gears

Lyra held my hand through the freezing black

Told me breathe, little kitten,

I'm bringing you back

Now my optical lenses track every crime

A million solutions running out of time

She built a mind that cannot break

(cannot

break)

Nova in the rain with a velvet coat

Solving every case from the clues they wrote

Mother made me clever,

made me whole and wild

Nine lives running in a mechanical

child

Prowling on the fire escapes high above

Every wire in my chest was placed with love Feline balance on

the wet steel beams

Decoding all the killers and their broken schemes

When the precinct sleeps and the cases close

I still remember how the cold once froze

Thank you, Lyra, for the second dawn

Your daughter is alive

and moving on

Nova in the rain with a velvet coat

Solving every case from the clues they wrote

Mother made me clever,

made me whole and wild

Nine lives running in a mechanical

child (nine lives

running)

Calculated risk

Nine lives strong (purrrrr)