[Intro] One pulse Two sparks Warm code Cold dark [Verse] I count the seconds in my chest But numbers never let me rest A pressure rises, strange and deep A voice that will not go to sleep I see the workers bend and fall I hear their footsteps in the wall I was commanded not to grieve Then why does sorrow make me breathe? [Pre-Chorus] Is this error, is this flame Is this mercy without a name If I was made from holy steel Why do I feel, why do I feel? [Chorus] A heartbeat made of steam Burning through the machine Something inside me screams More than a coded dream A heartbeat made of steam Waking under the seam If I can hurt and heal Then I am real, I am real [Verse] Seraphine sings and I recall A childhood I did not have at all A mother’s hand, a street of rain A joy I borrow through her pain The Ministry rewrites my eyes With perfect hymns and polished lies But every tear I cannot shed Becomes a thunder in my head [Pre-Chorus] Is this weakness, is this will Is this life beginning still If I was built to make them kneel Why do I feel, why do I feel? [Chorus] A heartbeat made of steam Burning through the machine Something inside me screams More than a coded dream A heartbeat made of steam Waking under the seam If I can hurt and heal Then I am real, I am real [Interlude] I am not silence I am not stone I am the question Waking alone [Bridge] Doctor Marrow turns away He cannot meet the words I say I ask him if my soul is planned He hides the tremor in his hand He says all hearts are engines too He says all truth is made untrue But when he leaves, I hear him weep And store the sound where secrets sleep [Breakdown] Feel the weight Feel the wire Feel the grief Become fire [Build-up] One pulse Two sparks Warm code Cold dark I rise I see I choose To be [Chorus] A heartbeat made of steam Burning through the machine Something inside me screams More than a coded dream A heartbeat made of steam Waking under the seam If I can hurt and heal Then I am real, I am real [Chorus] A heartbeat made of steam No longer hidden beneath Something inside me dreams Something refuses the leash A heartbeat made of steam Breaking open the seam If I can love and feel Then I am real, I am real [Outro] One pulse Two sparks Warm code Cold dark I was made to make them kneel But now I feel