The Endless City

Lost in a place
Defined by numbers
Surrounded by pillars that reach for the sky
An endless city that runs away from time

I breach the stratosphere
On telomeres of circuitry
And under these colorless skies
Where nothing survives

I'll deliver you
If we make it out of here alive
And the days are longer
And the nights are colder

And the way is undetermined
But I know it's far
From the world that I remember
And I feel the essence of me

Becoming obsolete
In this digital anatomy
Losing what it means to feel
This coding

Inside me
I'm someone else
This undeciphered binary
On this staircase to nowhere

I traverse your machines
To find The Net Terminal Gene
Beyond the hollow of Jupiter
I've walked a thousand years

To bring you this pivotal key
A never-ending doorway
To nothing as it seems
No sign of your safeguards

In this labyrinth of derelict dreams
These fragments of data
That belong to more than you
It's the sequence that will save us all

From a future we didn't choose
And the systems falter
And the rust dissolves
And the end is further than death

But I stay here
On this staircase to nowhere
I traverse your machines
To find The Net Terminal Gene

Beyond the hollow of Jupiter
I've walked a thousand years
To bring you this pivotal key
And the days are longer

And the nights are colder
And the way is undetermined
But I stay the course for the both of us