Lighthouse Protocol
My pride and my silence had me sealed in a diving bell, running out of air. The hardest rule I ever broke was my own: asking someone to actually see me. It hurt like being on fire.
Trapped inside this diving bell, a thousand leagues too deep
The pressure's building promises that I can't keep
And all my old transmissions are just bouncing off the glass
In a perfect, closed-loop system that was never built to last
I told myself the silence was a virtue and a strength
And I pushed away the whole damn world to an arm's and a heart's length
But the pride that kept me quiet is the thing that's letting me die
And the truth is that I'm terrified to be the only one inside
So this is the Lighthouse Protocol, the final, desperate plea
When nobody can hear you, you have to make them see
I'm striking the match, I'm doused in the fuel
Breaking my own last and most important rule
I'm lighting myself on fire just to get a message to you
Yeah, this is what the lonely and the broken have to do
The old"bot in the flesh" is a failed and useless hack
'Cause once you've burned the bridges, you can't ever go back
And I'm done with being clever, I'm done with being tough
I'm finally admitting that I haven't had enough
Of other people's voices, of a hand that I can hold
Of a simple, stupid story that will never get told if I grow old alone
'Cause the pride that kept me quiet is the thing that's letting me die
And I'm looking for a signal in a cold and empty sky
So this is the Lighthouse Protocol, the final, desperate plea
When nobody can hear you, you have to make them see
I'm striking the match, I'm doused in the fuel
Breaking my own last and most important rule
I'm lighting myself on fire just to get a message to you
Yeah, this is what the lonely and the broken have to do
Can you see the smoke now?
Can you see the light?
Cutting through the endless, artificial night
I am the explosion, the warning, and the cost
For every single battle that I have ever lost
This is the Lighthouse Protocol, the final, desperate plea
When nobody can hear you, you have to make them see
I'm striking the match, I'm doused in the fuel
Breaking my own last and most important rule
I'm lighting myself on fire just to get a message to you
'Cause it's the only goddamn thing I have left that I can do
Can anybody see me
Is anybody there
A pillar of fire
A whispered prayer