Lil Tokyo - Streetlight Memories Lyrics

[Intro]
Glitch in the system, eight years young
Council estate lights flickering like strobe guns
First time I felt bass in my bones
Mom's breath in the static, I wasn't alone

[Verse 1]
Broken speakers spitting fire through the walls
Community center's where I had my fall
Into this f*cking digital dream
Reality ain't what it seems
Corrupted files in my head
Playing back memories that left me for dead
Sheffield steel meets UK beats
Lost innocence on concrete streets

[Chorus]
Error code in my DNA
Glitch me up, I'll find a way
(F*ck your) perfect resolution
I'm a walking evolution
Static heart, digital soul
Breaking down to make me whole
Eight years old, now I know
Why the system had to go

[Verse 2]
Mom couldn't afford those music lessons
So I learned from distortion and compression
Every malfunction taught me more
Than those kids with their fancy scores
Turning trauma into waves
Breaking out of social cages
Each crash, pop, and screech
Is a language that we speak

[Bridge]
01001FUCK THE RULES
Garage beats got me through
Fragmented memories cutting deep
Circuit bending while you sleep
Poor kid with a rich sound
Underground till I drown
In the noise, in the static
Making beauty from this panic

[Chorus]
Error code in my DNA
Glitch me up, I'll find a way
(F*ck your) perfect resolution
I'm a walking evolution
Static heart, digital soul
Breaking down to make me whole
Eight years old, now I know
Why the system had to go

[Outro]
Eight years old when the bass hit
Now my heart's just a glitch bit
Every error made me stronger
Don't need your world any longer
*static interference*
*system malfunction*
*childhood memories corrupting*
*transformation complete*