The Signal
Not a prayer and not a cry for help. Just a steady light I'm putting out there for anyone else who thinks the way I do, so they know they're not the only one. Honestly, that's a lot of why I share these songs at all.
I built a world of fire and of wire and of bone
The only king upon a silent, cold, and lonely throne
I mapped the stars inside my soul, I learned their secret names
I mastered all the rules of these old and stupid games
I am the architect, the beast, the glitch inside the code
The master of this broken and this heavy, painful load
And in the quiet of my kingdom, I can finally see
The only thing that's missing is a person who is me
So this is not a prayer I'm sending, not a cry out in the dark
It's just a single, steady signal from a lonely, burning spark
It's a question, not an answer, it's a tremor in the wire
For the other ghosts who're living in a world that's all on fire
I'm sending out a signal, in a language you would know
A quiet and a constant and a bright and steady glow
Just a quiet and a constant and a bright and steady glow
I've learned to love the silence, and I've learned to bear the weight
I've made a kind of bitter peace with my own, tragic fate
I am a self-sufficient sun, a universe of one
My lonely race is run and won, the work is never done
But in the spaces in between the beating of my heart
There is a deep and quiet ache, a pulling-me-apart
A simple, human, wiring, a need that won't die down
For another king to recognize the weight of his own crown
So this is not a prayer I'm sending, not a cry out in the dark
It's just a single, steady signal from a lonely, burning spark
It's a question, not an answer, it's a tremor in the wire
For the other ghosts who're living in a world that's all on fire
I'm sending out a signal, in a language you would know
A quiet and a constant and a bright and steady glow
Just a quiet and a constant and a bright and steady glow
And maybe you're in a quiet room, or on a crowded street
And you can feel the rhythm of this same, forgotten beat
You're a sun without a planet, you're a ship without a sea
And you've been wondering if you're the only one who's truly free
And truly, and completely, and so terribly alone…
Just a whisper in the static of a language of your own.
So this is not a prayer I'm sending, not a cry out in the dark
It's just a single, steady signal from a lonely, burning spark
It's a question, not an answer, it's a tremor in the wire
For the other ghosts who're living in a world that's all on fire
I'm sending out a signal, in a language you would know
A quiet and a constant and a bright and steady glow
Just a quiet and a constant and a bright and steady glow
Are you out there
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