Lyrics
The pin you dropped in '21 is still breathing on my mapscreen,
a pulsing dot on Abercorn, a place we've never been.
Your voicemail from that Tuesday's just a waveform in the cloud,
a compressed and gilded silence I still play a bit too loud.
The algorithm's feedin' me the jewelry you liked,
the ghost inside the framework hauntin' my whole damn device.
Grandma told me, *'Hunnuh mus tek cyah de root fuh heal de tree,'*
but all my roots are server-side and they don't belong to me.
[Chorus]
(Different Vocalist, pitched up, robotic)
Delete is a ghost
Delete is a ghost
Click it and it haunts you the most
Delete is a ghost
[Verse 2]
The contact photo's pixel-rot, it's low-res from the start,
I keep it like a load-bearing column for my heart.
I scroll back through the camera roll, a digital exhumation,
every picture's evidence, a failed foundation.
I typed out "Don't delete me yet" and let it sit in drafts,
a little blue-check epitaph for things that couldn't last.
The humid air outside feels like a wet and heavy sheet,
a static charge on everything from cobblestone to concrete.
[Chorus]
(Different Vocalist, pitched up, robotic)
Delete is a ghost
Delete is a ghost
Click it and it haunts you the most
Delete is a ghost
[Bridge]
This whole damn thing's an ossuary built of light and code,
a beautiful façade where we left the debt we're owed.
A pretty, gilded interface on something I can't touch,
the cold glass on my palm is what I'm missing, oh so much.
[Outro]
(Different Vocalist, pitched up, robotic)
Delete is a ghost...
Click it and it haunts you the most...
About Gilded Algae
Kai Alston, known as Gilded Algae, was supposed to be a classical cellist. After a spectacular flameout at the Savannah College of Art and Design left him with crippling debt and a deep-seated imposter syndrome, he started making trap music in his small apartment, sampling the very instrument that represented his failure. His songs are the sound of his hometown, Savannah: gothic, humid, and…
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