[Intro - Pulse, Vocoder Whisper]
Access denied
Access denied

[Verse 1]
I know my way around a system
I've held the keys my whole career
Gave myself a crown at seventeen
Admin of everything in here
I renamed all my folders
I scheduled better tasks
I ran my resolutions
Every January that passed

[Pre-Chorus]
But there's a directory in the center
Where my password never took
I've been guessing at it all my life
With every vow I ever shook

[Chorus]
Root access
I don't have it
Never did
The will I called my freedom
Was a user, not the grid
I can run the little programs
I can move the surface sand
But root access to this heart of mine
Was always in the Author's hands

[Verse 2]
I tried to overwrite my nature
With a list of better rules
White-knuckle on a Sunday
The proudest of the fools
By Thursday it rolled back again
Restored from what I am
You cannot patch a nature
The nature patches you, and ran

[Pre-Chorus]
Every self-help gospel
Is a guest account with dreams
Scrubbing at the interface
While the kernel runs upstream

[Chorus]
Root access
I don't have it
Never did
The will I called my freedom
Was a user, not the grid
I can run the little programs
I can move the surface sand
But root access to this heart of mine
Was always in the Author's hands

[Bridge - Drums Drop, Bass Alone, Voice Low]
Then Somebody logged in
I never heard the door
No prompt, no request, no asking
He owned it all before
He didn't need my password
He wrote the whole machine
And the stone He touched went beating
And the unclean thing came clean

[Final Chorus - Soaring, Major Lift]
Root access
He has it
Always did
And the day He used it on me
Was the day I really lived
I still run my little programs
I still move my surface sand
But the deepest thing inside of me
Is signed in the Author's hand

[Outro - Pulse Slowing]
Access granted
Not to me
To Him
It was always
Granted to Him