Consent Algorithms

[Intro] Digital traces, fading away Like footprints in virtual clay Your ghost in the machine, it stays While my mind starts to fray [Verse 1] Backed up your life in zeroes and ones Cold storage keeping what's already gone Obsessive archival, my new religion Can't let go of your final transmission Lost everything in twenty-twenty Hard drives failed, leaving me empty Now I'm haunted by phantom files Your data scattered across miles [Chorus] Did I cross the line? When I saved what was mine Or was it ever mine to keep? In this digital deep (In this digital deep) [Verse 2] Every click, every swipe you made Preserved like insects in digital jade But who gave me the fucking right To keep your shadows in silicon light? Compulsive backups, paranoid dreams Nothing's ever what it seems Your presence lingers in the cloud Silent screams, no sound allowed [Bridge] Delete, preserve, delete, preserve Walking wires made of nerve System failure, total crash Memories turned to digital ash [Chorus] Did I cross the line? When I saved what was mine Or was it ever mine to keep? In this digital deep (In this digital deep) [Outro] Your ghost still haunts my hard drive space Digital fragments of your face No consent in this cold machine Just echoes of what might have been Echoes of what might have been Echoes...