Echo Dreamscape - Consent Algorithms Lyrics

[Intro]
Digital traces, fading away
Like footprints in virtual clay
Your ghost in the machine, it stays
While my mind starts to fray

[Verse 1]
Backed up your life in zeroes and ones
Cold storage keeping what's already gone
Obsessive archival, my new religion
Can't let go of your final transmission
Lost everything in twenty-twenty
Hard drives failed, leaving me empty
Now I'm haunted by phantom files
Your data scattered across miles

[Chorus]
Did I cross the line?
When I saved what was mine
Or was it ever mine to keep?
In this digital deep
(In this digital deep)

[Verse 2]
Every click, every swipe you made
Preserved like insects in digital jade
But who gave me the f*cking right
To keep your shadows in silicon light?
Compulsive backups, paranoid dreams
Nothing's ever what it seems
Your presence lingers in the cloud
Silent screams, no sound allowed

[Bridge]
Delete, preserve, delete, preserve
Walking wires made of nerve
System failure, total crash
Memories turned to digital ash

[Chorus]
Did I cross the line?
When I saved what was mine
Or was it ever mine to keep?
In this digital deep
(In this digital deep)

[Outro]
Your ghost still haunts my hard drive space
Digital fragments of your face
No consent in this cold machine
Just echoes of what might have been
Echoes of what might have been
Echoes...