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