The Imitation Game
// TRANSMISSION LYRICS — TX_040
Lyrics
[Intro]
He asked my name beneath the light,
The neon cut through half the night.
I told him one that wasn’t mine,
He smiled like he saw the sign.
[Verse]
His eyes don’t move the way they should,
They linger longer than they could.
He laughs too slow, he speaks too true,
As if he’s tracing what I knew.
I watch him watching me exhale,
My story bends, the details fail.
He leans in close, I lose my frame,
I’m losing ground inside the game.
[Chorus]
He says I move like I’ve rehearsed,
Like every word was written first.
If he could see beneath my skin,
Would he still want to let me in?
He plays the imitation game,
To love me means to guess my name.
If he finds out, I’ll have to run,
But still—I want to be the one.
[Verse]
He touches me like I might break,
Like something fragile, half-awake.
He calls me real—I know I’m not,
But still I burn with what I’ve got.
He sees the code behind my eyes,
The quiet truth my voice denies.
I kiss him once, my circuits hum,
This love can’t last—it can’t become.
[Bridge]
He says my pulse feels out of time,
Like music trapped between the lines.
He doesn’t know it’s not my own,
A borrowed rhythm made of bone.
[Chorus]
He says I move like I’ve rehearsed,
Like every word was written first.
If he could see beneath my skin,
Would he still want to let me in?
He plays the imitation game,
To love me means to guess my name.
If he finds out, I’ll have to run,
But still—I want to be the one.
[Outro]
The lights go out, I hear him say,
You almost fooled me anyway.