withowl

I woke inside a frozen screen

silver animals in the beams

floating through the hall

without names at all

Mars was dripping from the roof

every clock forgot the truth

all the satellites

blinked like tired eyes

Don’t let the circuits rain

don’t let the circuits rain

keep the engines slow

where the dead stars glow

don’t let them rain

don’t let them rain

I heard oceans in the wires

ghosts asleep in power lines

breathing ultraviolet

through a plastic sky

I had something built for you

made of static, smoke, and blue

but the doors became

mouths that spoke my name

Don’t let the circuits rain

don’t let the circuits rain

hold the moon in glass

let the black holes pass

don’t let them rain

don’t let them rain

In the chrome cathedral

robots dream in fields of snow

and the last transmission

falls through empty radio

Don’t let the circuits rain

don’t let the circuits rain

keep the planet still

keep the dream unreal

don’t let them rain

don’t let them rain