[Intro - Cold, Distant, Thin Synth]

[Verse 1 - Detached Vocal]
The light gets in but nothing lands
I read the words, they run like sand
I hear the Name, it's just a name
Every signal looks the same
The sermons fall like weather
The kindness slides like rain
There's a lock on something central
And it will not take the change

[Chorus 1 - Cold, Restrained]
Nothing writes to the write-protected
Nothing gets that deep
Not my will and not my wanting
Not the promises I keep
I can repaint every wall in here
Rearrange the rooms
But the house runs on a layer
That no hand of mine can move

[Bridge - Everything Stops, One Sustained Note, Half-Whispered]
Then one night
No hands on the keyboard
No user in the chair
The Writer touched the write-protected
The flash fell on the layer
I didn't run the update
The update ran through me

[Verse 2 - Warm, Close Vocal, Same Melody As Verse 1]
The light gets in and now it lands
The words weigh more than all the sand
I hear the Name, it knows my name
Nothing signals quite the same
The sermons fall like harvest
The kindness soaks like rain
Something opened something central
And it took, and holds, the change

[Chorus 2 - Full, Warm, Saxophone Under]
Something wrote to the write-protected
Something got that deep
Not my will and not my wanting
Not the promises I keep
Same eyes, same streetlights
Same city, same old sky
But the deepest code is different
And I never lifted a finger
And I couldn't tell you why

[Outro - Warm Pads, Fading]
Same streets
New firmware
Same face
New eyes
In the dark He wrote my bottom line
And the morning was the surprise