Lumiere Obscura - Borrowed Time Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Cold steel and circuit boards
Thought I had it all mapped out and stored
But systems crash and wires fray
Left standing here in disarray
The screen goes black, my heart beats fast
These perfect plans weren't meant to last

[Chorus]
When the lights go down, and the system breaks
Everything I built just starts to shake
Digital dreams turn into static screams
Nothing's ever what it seems
Trust in code, trust in her
Both turned out to be blur

[Verse 2]
Factory walls echo my decline
Surrounded by machines that died
Just like Sophie's hollow lies
Left me here to digitize
Malfunction's got me on my knees
But failure's got its own expertise

[Bridge]
Recalibrate, regenerate
Delete the past, eliminate
These glitches in my memory
Are all that's left of you and me

[Chorus]
When the lights go down, and the system breaks
Everything I built just starts to shake
Digital dreams turn into static screams
Nothing's ever what it seems
Trust in code, trust in her
Both turned out to be blur

[Verse 3]
Saint-Denis nights, fluorescent hell
Where both my heart and hardware fell
But from these ashes of defeat
I'll build something more complete
These broken parts aren't meant to last
But I'm done living in the past

[Outro]
The system's down but I survive
These scars just prove I'm still alive
In this automated hell
I've got my own story to tell
When everything goes dark and cold
That's when humans break the mold