Lyric

The numbers started running

Before the sun was up

Lines of silent engines

Drinking oceans from a cup

Dashboards glowing softly

Predictions in the air

Every second shifting

Before we’re even there

I try to check the answer

But the figures rearrange

While I’m drawing one conclusion

The variables all change

Verify the calc

Run it once again

Reality keeps moving

Faster than the pen

Verify the calc

Search the hidden flaw

But the world updates itself

Before I reach the law

The feeds keep recalculating

Cities in a stream

Every choice converted

Into someone’s living scheme

Optimization whispers

“Faster, leaner, now”

But no one showed the method

For the trembling human how

I open up the ledger

Of every yes and no

But the sums grow unfamiliar

In the overflow

Verify the calc

Run it once again

Truth is just a snapshot

In a hurricane

Verify the calc

Balance what we see

But the answer changes shape

Inside the circuitry

Somewhere in the margins

A quiet question waits

Did we lose the meaning

While improving all the rates

Machines refine the pattern

Perfect in their arc

But we’re still counting slowly

With a pencil in the dark

Verify the calc

Run it once again

The future solves the problem

Before we can begin

Verify the calc

Try to understand

While the world keeps compiling

Faster than our hands