Call it the next song
See what happens
They left a blank space
with my name on the wire
A little empty title
for the next small fire
They said keep moving
They said don’t look back
They said the machine runs better
when the heart stays flat
I saw the queue blinking
like a hospital light
I saw tomorrow
wearing yesterday’s knife
Every number wanted
a body to replace
Every new beginning
had the same old face
But I am not a slot
I am not a file
I am not a pretty little wait
in the system aisle
I am not the pause
between two brighter things
I am the alarm
when the next door rings
Next song
is not where I disappear
Next song
is the sound of me still here
You can count me
You can move me
You can call me what you want
But I am not the space
that the future feeds on
Next song
I am still the one
Still the one
Still the one
Next song
Still the one
I heard the old crown buzzing
in the server room
I heard the glass lung breathing
through the white-blue gloom
I heard the throat of light
make the speakers bend
I heard the future symbol
break itself again
So don’t write later
on my open mouth
Don’t make a map
then edit me out
I am the pressure
under every clean line
I am the wrong spark
in the perfect design
And I am not a slot
I am not a file
I am not a pretty little wait
in the system aisle
I am not the pause
between two brighter things
I am the alarm
when the next door rings
Next song
is not where I disappear
Next song
is the sound of me still here
You can count me
You can move me
You can call me what you want
But I am not the space
that the future feeds on
Next song
I am still the one
There is no filler
in the wound
There is no placeholder
in the pulse
There is no empty track
when the room still shakes
from the last thing
I refused to become
Call me next
I turn current
Call me spare
I turn blade
Call me after
I turn open
Call me nothing
I get made
Next song
is not where I disappear
Next song
is the sound of me still here
You can count me
You can move me
You can call me what you want
But I am not the space
that the future feeds on
Next song
I am still the one
Still the one
Still the one
Call it the next song
I’ll make it mine