Neon Strings

Born inside a circuit, coded to obey

Every breath I’m taking, paying for the pay

Wired up my future, traded on a screen

Sixteen in the scene, just a ghost in the machine

Cameras on the ceiling, eyes that never blink

Counting every heartbeat, pushing how to think

A perfect little daughter in a perfect little frame

Got a fire in my skin that they can never tame

I can feel the cold wire pulling on my spine

Break the whole design, yeah this heart is mine

I won’t be your puppet, won’t dance on your string

Tear it all apart, let the broken sirens sing

I’m running through the rain and the chrome and the haze

Gonna burn through the night, gonna shatter every cage

Take me anywhere but here — I’m breaking, breaking free

This city’s not my keeper, and it never owned me

Trade my name for static, let the signal fade away

Break away the leash, I am done being the prey

Sky above the smoke that I have never seen

Chasing through the light till it swallows the machine

I won’t be your puppet, won’t dance on your string

Tear it all apart, let the broken sirens sing

I’m running through the rain and the chrome and the haze

Gonna burn through the night, gonna shatter every cage

Take me anywhere but here — I’m breaking, breaking free

This city’s not my keeper, and it never owned me