Paper Heart
// TRANSMISSION LYRICS — TX_065
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I was printed on a borrowed line,
Serial love in a barcode spine.
They told me pain was just a phase,
But it lingers here in data haze.
Streetlights melt on window glass,
Ghost reflections, faces that pass.
Every smile’s a counterfeit brand,
But your touch—unscanned.
[Pre-Chorus]
How many lives must I recall
Before I know which one was mine at all?
Your voice—compressed, then gone,
Still loops when the night comes on.
[Chorus]
Paper heart—creased and torn,
Folds of love that were never born.
If you light the match, I’ll fade—
Just ashes of a life remade.
Paper heart—in the rain,
Bleeding ink that spells your name.
If I burn, at least I’ll know—
What it means to let you go.
[Verse 2]
The static hums our memory’s hymn,
I mouth the words though the lights grow dim.
They sold me peace in plastic sleep,
But I dream where the secrets seep.
A ghost can only fall so far,
Before it learns what memories are.
And I am just the proof they keep—
A copy meant to feel too deep.
[Bridge]
“Love is obsolete,” they say.
“It’s an error in the code.”
But errors are the only things I know.
I trace your name across the glow,
A pattern no repair can show.
If love’s the glitch that breaks the chain,
Then let the system crash again.
[Final Chorus / Outro]
Paper heart—creased and torn,
Still beating where I was born.
If this fire forgets my face,
At least I burned with some grace.