Lyrics
I am three green dots on a West Philly Tuesday.
The last time I saw you type was late January.
I hold the blue-checked receipt for a laugh you sent at 3 a.m.,
A pixelated blueprint of what you were back then.
[Chorus]
They called you the Keystone Protocol.
The load-bearing center of it all.
Now I'm just an archive on a screen,
A grid of ghosts and the silence in between.
[Verse 2]
Remember the photo from the pier back in Lorain?
The isobar map you sent to prove the coming rain?
Your last words hang here, a rivet in the code:
"'Night guys, talk tomorrow" — eighty-six weeks ago.
[Chorus]
They called you the Keystone Protocol.
The load-bearing center of it all.
Now I'm just an archive on a screen,
A grid of ghosts and the silence in between.
[Bridge]
The signal decayed slow, a hairline crack in the wall.
No demolition, no final call.
Just the quiet hum of a server farm out west,
Putting a friendship's structural test to rest.
[Outro]
Keystone...
Protocol...
About Phyllis Hyland
Phyllis Hyland was raised in the shadow of the steel mills of Lorain, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. At nineteen, she moved to Philadelphia to study architecture but dropped out to pursue the Philly-soul sound she'd idolized on her mother's records. Her songs are architectural structures of their own, built with a rich contralto and the raw materials of her Rust Belt past. She still keeps her…
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