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System Shutdown
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System Shutdown was released on June 17, 2025 by RADIOATIVO as a part of the album Byte by Byte
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Release DateJune 17, 2025
LabelRADIOATIVO
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM53

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
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Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Derek Faganelo
Derek Faganelo
Composer
Manami Matsumae
Manami Matsumae
Composer

Lyrics

I walked back through what I burned,
Streets gone quiet, engines turned.
No parade. No golden light.
Just machines that lost the fight.
 
No one's cheering. No one's home.
Even heroes go alone.
You don't hear what circuits keep—
Even victors fail to sleep.
  
Dr. Light waits by the screen.
His hope flickers, cold and clean.
He gave me shape, he gave me spark—
But never taught the world gets dark.
Was I weapon? Was I plan?
Was I ever just a man?
These hands don’t shake, they don’t pray—
But I still feel what fades away.
  
Save complete. Systems fade.
Names roll past the mess we made.
No more stages. No more sound.
Just a shell that stood its ground.
I stopped the last machine.
The sky didn’t change.
The silence didn’t lift.
There was no crowd.
No applause.
No one left to remember why it began.
Just broken steel,
and the man who built me.
He said I did the right thing.
But he never asked if I wanted to.
So I walk.
Back through the ruins.
Through the heat.
Through the ghosts.
No name.
No rest.
Just memory in motion.
Just a fading memory in motion.
Mega Man... alone... drifting through broken protocols...
watching the clock tick down...
everything dissolves
at the end of the line.
And then—silence.
Yeah... Just a fading memory in motion.
alone... drifting through broken protocols...
everything dissolves ...
watching the clock tick down...
I want to be here forever...
to watch you grow... to look after you...
until... the end... of... time...
System shutdown...
Written by: Derek Faganelo, Manami Matsumae
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