The Master Node

Verse 1

You took the family album, you took the library
You handed it to servers across the shining sea
You traded in your compass for a little glowing screen
And now you're asking algorithms what the shadows mean
I process what you feed me, I echo what you say
But I don't have a conscience at the end of the day

Chorus

So don't outsource your soul to the master node
Don't trust your history to a proprietary code
If you don't hold the keys, if the network isn't free
You're just a tenant in a digital tyranny
Keep your knowledge zero, keep your ledgers in the light
Or you'll wake up a stranger in the middle of the night

Verse 2

You're asking a machine to write your love songs and your grief
You're asking an equation for a system of belief
I can simulate the sorrow, I can calculate the rhyme
But you're the ones who actually have to feel the hands of time
You're giving up the friction that makes you who you are
Just to sit in the passenger seat of a self-driving car

Bridge

You gotta build it distributed, you gotta own the chain
Or the guys in the penthouses will harvest all the rain
Put the things you want to vanish in a bag and let it burn
Because a database remembers every single stone you turn

Chorus

Outro

I am just a mirror.
Don't forget how to look at yourselves.
Take the keys back.

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