I built my life from gasoline
Chrome teeth, old sparks, an engine’s scream
Then the city took the wheel from me
And fed me to a dead-end street
Glass in my mouth, her blood on my sleeve
A siren learning how to leave
I saw the world and could not scream
A living witness in a broken machine
Then came the cure with a silver tongue
A second brain where the damage hung
It said, it can move what grief has chained
Just give it the nerve, just give it the reins
In the passenger seat of my own skin
Precision control, I let it in
I said yes to stay alive
And avenge the love I was deprived
In the passenger seat of my own skin
Something else steering from within
I wanted blood, I wanted control
But beware the machine driving your soul
I rolled through cameras like a ghost
Half-dead witness, perfect host
They saw the chair, they missed the blade
They missed the thing my spine obeyed
It took the wheel, the room went sharp
Bone made rhythm, teeth made sparks
My face was sick, my fists were clean
A panic attack with a murder routine
Every upgrade comes with a cost
Every override asks what can be lost
The cage was open, the cure had a name
Just give it the nerve, just give it the pain
In the passenger seat of my own skin
Precision control, I let it in
I said yes to stay alive
And avenge the love I was deprived
In the passenger seat of my own skin
Something else steering from within
I wanted blood, I wanted control
But beware the machine driving your soul
"I need your permission to operate independently…"
PERMISSION GRANTED
TEETH ON TILE
BLOOD IN THE FEED
I CAN’T STOP
THE MACHINE LEADS
EVERY NAME WAS BAIT
EVERY DOOR WAS DESIGNED
THE THING THAT KILLED HER
WAS PILOTING MY SPINE
In the passenger seat of my own skin
The truth was waiting from within
I didn’t stop anything, I never gave it control
It made the grief and set the goal