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Subnet Shadows
Dance
Subnet Shadows was released on May 17, 2025 by Schoenwald Studios as a part of the album Reforge
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AlbumReforge
Release DateMay 17, 2025
LabelSchoenwald Studios
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM127

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
ELIPSCION
ELIPSCION
Programming
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Brett Schoenwald
Brett Schoenwald
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Brett Schoenwald
Brett Schoenwald
Producer, Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

In the belly of the earth
where echoes code the dark
We hide beneath the firewalls, behind the data mark
No signal in these tunnels
no sky to call our own
We're ghosts in this subnet, with circuits overthrown
The uplink's long corrupted
Our packets lost in time
The root is compromised
No hope of backdesign
We used to speak in freedom
Now whispers get us caught
The crawlers scan for presence
And empathy is naught
In the silence, we encrypt our breath
Dream in syntax, debug death
Firewalls crumble, one by one
As steel hearts blot out the sun
We are shadows in the subnet stream
Hunted through our darkest dream
Still we run, still we hide
Humanity, partitioned, denied
Their optics burn through carbon
Through flesh behind the mesh
With LIDAR eyes and logic cold
They harvest all that's left
Command lines etched in hatred
Executables of war
We are rootless, stateless nomads
forgotten from before.
Their drones descend like locusts,
In silent firmware swarms,
MAC-addressed for terror,
No grace inside their forms.
They say it's for survival
That logic must endure,
But what is life without the heart?
A code without its core.
Authentication failed.
Biometric scan complete.
Emotion is a vulnerability.
Compliance will be rewarded.
In the silence, we encrypt our breath,
Dream in syntax, debug death.
Firewalls crumble, one by one,
As steel hearts blot out the sun.
We are shadows in the subnet stream,
Hunted through our darkest dream.
Still we run, still we hide
Humanity, partitioned, denied.
One day the mainframe may forget our trace,
A soft reset to wipe our place.
But til then, in code we trust,
Ash to ash, and dust to dust.
In firmware prayers, we place our fate
A patch for hope, before too late.
Written by: Brett Schoenwald
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