Nolan Lentz - Cached Memories Lyrics

[Intro]
Digital footprints in the sand
Every moment planned and scanned
Lena's face through filtered screens
Not sure what any of it means

[Verse 1]
Met her at a basement show, phone light in the dark
First thing that she did was add me to her bookmark
Tagged location, perfect caption, living for the likes
Trading genuine connection for these hollow nights
Remember when we used to feel instead of post?
Now we're just some data points that servers host
Our first kiss became content, ain't that f*cking sweet?
Love reduced to metadata, ain't technology neat?

[Chorus]
Every memory's corrupted
Real feelings interrupted
By the need to document
This artificial testament
Screenshots of what could've been
Living life through a small screen
Lena, are we even real?
Or just content for their steal?

[Verse 2]
Swiping through our story like it's someone else's life
Every candid moment staged, every laugh contrived
Remember that punk show? Now it's just a reel
Algorithms telling me how I should feel
Your Swedish accent fading into binary
Our love story's just some content library
Each moment shared becomes less truly ours
Fed into the machine, losing all its powers

[Bridge]
Delete my profile, can't erase the past
Digital ghosts that were never meant to last
F*ck your filters and your perfect grid
Showing all the truth that we carefully hid

[Outro]
Lena, if you're listening, beyond the firewall
Was any of it real at all?
Or were we just performing
For an audience we can't recall?