Lars Vemeer - Numb Protocol Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Static in my head, another night alone
Scrolling through the wreckage of the lives we used to know
Maya's voice is breaking up, pixels paint her pain
I twist her words like origami, fold them into shame

[Pre-Chorus]
Digital confessions through a screen that never sleeps
Hospital machines keep time with my heartbeat
Viktor's voice memos, raw and unrefined
I sample all his secrets, leave humanity behind

[Chorus]
I'm just a ghost in the machine
Playing God with your memories
Cut and paste your agony
Call it art, call it therapy
F*cking numb, systematically
This is how we learn to breathe

[Verse 2]
Rotterdam nights bleed into endless days
Zoom calls echo empty while connection fades
I'm engineering distance like it's second skin
Converting tears to data, let the games begin
Your vulnerability's my currency to spend
I'll make this isolation something beautiful in the end

[Bridge]
White noise fills my veins
Can't feel shit anyway
Glitch out all the pain
Watch the numbers fade
I'm the architect of emptiness
The curator of decay

[Chorus]
I'm just a ghost in the machine
Playing God with your memories
Cut and paste your agony
Call it art, call it therapy
F*cking numb, systematically
This is how we learn to breathe

[Verse 3]
Take your broken signals, make them synthesize
Turn your desperation into lullabies
Maya's crying through the static of my screen
Viktor's voice distorting in my twisted dreams
I'm the virus in the system now
Breaking down what's real somehow

[Outro]
Signal's getting weaker
But the numbness makes me stronger
Digital anesthesia
As we drift apart
I don't know if I'm the artist
Or just another broken part
In this f*cking simulation
We call our hearts