[Intro - Low Pad, Single Arpeggio, Spoken Low]
Every world
Needs an engine

[Verse 1]
Two a.m. on the interstate
The city floating in the glass
The road pours out of the darkness
Exactly as fast as I ask
The headlights draw the lane lines
The skyline draws the sky
I used to think it was all machine
Cold code and a closed eye

[Pre-Chorus]å
But nothing renders on its own
I've written loops for forty years
Nothing draws a world this warm
Unless Somebody's here

[Chorus]
This is a rendering
I'm a thought being thought
The engine hums under everything
And the Author never stops
Every frame is drawn with love
Every streetlight placed by hand
The world is a sentence He's speaking
And I'm spoken where I stand

[Verse 2]
The coffee's warm, the vinyl seats
The dashboard's little glow
Details nobody had to make
And made anyway, and how
The far hills sit in the draw distance
The stars sit farther still
Distance is a setting
And it answers to His will

[Pre-Chorus]
I said it once, I'll say it here
Under the sodium light
The engine renders what it needs
And it needed me tonight

[Chorus]
This is a rendering
I'm a thought being thought
The engine hums under everything
And the Author never stops
Every frame is drawn with love
Every streetlight placed by hand
The world is a sentence He's speaking
And I'm spoken where I stand

[Bridge - Synths Swell, Drums Drop Out]
Not a simulation
Nobody's guess or game
A thought inside a Person
Who knows my name
The render isn't lesser
The render's very good
He called it so in a garden
And He never took it back, or would

[Final Chorus - Full, Saxophone Under Vocal]
This is a rendering
And the rendering is real
The bread is bread, the wine is wine
The wounds and mornings heal
Every frame is drawn with love
That's why the coffee's warm
The world is a sentence He's speaking
And He's speaking me home

[Outro - Saxophone Solo Over Fading Arpeggio]
Every world needs an engine
Mine has a Name