Shut Down the World, Pt. 2

Currents scream beneath the ash and bone
Fractured cities call out in monotone
Every soul the virus claimed
Echoes through my altered frame
Your last breath still rattles in the grid
A memory the system tried to forbid
If I don't tear their core apart
There'll be no world left to restart

My metal pulse begins to shake
Every fault line starts to break
If I descend where shadows breed
I'll lose the last real part of me

Shut down the world
If this is how I honor your last breath
Shut down the world
I won't let our story end with your death
Shut down the world
Their coded plague, I'll destroy from within
Shut down the world
Even if it costs the man that I've been

Strip me
Bleed me
Break me down completely

Build me
Brace me
Grant me all your power

Take me
Shape me
I've become a weapon

Use me
Wield me
Let me be your savior

Patching through the viral main
Voices claw and scream in pain
Dreamers trapped in endless loops
Lovers frozen mid-reboot
Echoes flicker in the haze
The last gasp of dying days
If I fail, they die in chains
I've turned machine, no flesh remains

My body splits in code and heat
Fear and fire at my feet
If the cost is memory
I'll pay it with what's left of me

Take my grief
the only part that keeps me real
Take my name
the wound I never stopped to feel
Take my heart
that made me fight the world alone
Take it all
strip the marrow from my bones

Break me open
This is how we all survive

Shut down the world
I'm burning through the viral core
Shut down the world
I turn this battle into war
Shut down the world
I hear your voice, and I grow strong
Shut down the world
With your strength, I'll right this wrong

I'll shut down, down, down
Shut down the world

Bring it all down, down, down
I've shut down the world

And everything falls to silence

Empty
Hollow
Quiet
Metal

Will anyone
Recognize what I've become?