Rémi Du Chemin - Midnight Circuit Lyrics

[Intro]
Static in my veins, power lines hummin'
Father's eyes steady when they came runnin'
Forty-five minutes of their game, but he stood tall
Teaching me lessons 'bout staying ten feet tall

[Verse 1]
Midnight streets, blue lights flashin' through the dark
Badge numbers hidden, they think they're leavin' no mark
But every moment's burned into my circuits deep
Generator's pulse matches the way my heart beats
They tried to break him down, but they don't understand
My old man's silence was louder than their commands
Creole whispers in my blood, can't wash it away
Every stop and search just adds fuel to what I gotta say

[Chorus]
Power's out but we still glowin'
Through the blackout, keep on flowin'
They can't dim what's inside us
Can't kill the current that rides us
(Yeah, we still glowin')

[Verse 2]
Train tracks echo like ancestral drums tonight
System tries to ground us, but we're charged with fight
Downloaded wisdom from my father's quiet strength
While they profile us, we profile resilience
Suburbs sleeping while we navigate the grid
Every checkpoint, every stop, man, I'm keeping receipts
My voltage rising with each story that I spit
Through the static, through the noise, yeah, we still persist

[Bridge]
They thought the power was theirs to cut
But we've been generating our own light, what
Every detention builds another circuit
Every profile makes our current more perfect

[Outro]
Midnight's passing, but we keep on glowing
Through their outages, we keep on flowing
Father's eyes still light my way through dark
Power grid of dignity, it leaves its mark