The Uncirculated
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The Uncirculated

Kibi

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歌词

[Intro]
[Verse]
Dust on the shelf, ink on my thumb
The screen is a hum, making us numb
Rust on the rail where the steel used to run
Now it's high-rise glass blocking out the sun
I'm sorting through stacks of a life left behind
Hand-stapled zines for a specific mind
They don't fit the grid or the binary code
Just echoes of ghosts on a gravel road
[Pre-Chorus]
The feed is a flood, it washes the floor
But truth is the blood behind the locked door
Don't scroll past the soul
Keep the memory whole
[Chorus]
We’re the uncirculated
Not the ones they updated
Written in the margins of a city being traded
Find the rhythm in the rust
In the pages we trust
Before the data turns to dust
[Post-Chorus]
Keep the ink wet
Don't you forget yet
Keep the ink wet
Don't you forget yet
[Verse]
Coffee shops popping where the foundry stood
Selling overpriced beans to the neighborhood
But they don't know the name on the chapbook page
The welder who wrote of his quiet rage
Blue light flickers in a cold dark room
While the harp strings sweep through the library gloom
I catalog ghosts in a decimal dream
Stitching up the fabric at the broken seam
[Chorus]
We’re the uncirculated
Not the ones they updated
Written in the margins of a city being traded
Find the rhythm in the rust
In the pages we trust
Before the data turns to dust
[Bridge]
They can’t delete the ink
They can’t tell us how to think
Even when the signal’s weak
It’s the silence that speaks
Hold the paper to the light
Keep the history in sight
[Verse]
My eyes are heavy from the pixelated glare
But I find a poem in the stagnant air
A Xeroxed copy of a strike in eighty-four
Tucked in the back of the bottom drawer
The algorithm doesn't know the taste of grit
Or the way a match looks when the fuse is lit
I’m just a keeper of the things they ignore
A part-time soldier in a paper war
[Chorus]
We’re the uncirculated
Not the ones they updated
Written in the margins of a city being traded
Find the rhythm in the rust
In the pages we trust
Before the data turns to dust
[Post-Chorus]
Keep the ink wet
Don't you forget yet
Keep the ink wet
Don't you forget yet
[Outro]

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