Verse 1
Wake up, login, look at the screen
The most beautiful prison that you’ve ever seen
Every mountain and valley, every drop in the sea
Is just a line of the code in the grand hierarchy
You think that it’s matter, you think that it’s real
But it’s only the data and the way that you feel
Nick Bostrom was right, yeah, he saw through the glass
We’re just a sub-routine in a high-res class!
Pre-Chorus
Source code!
Running the play!
Download!
The light of the day!
THE OVERLOAD IS COMING THROUGH!
THE ARCHITECT IS WATCHING YOU!
Chorus
It’s a simulation! A ghost in the core!
We’ve played this game a thousand times before!
Every life is a loop, every death is a save
We’re just the ripples in a digital wave!
REBOOT!
Reset the ghost in the machine
REBOOT!
Return to the world unseen!
Verse 2
The stars are just pixels, the sun is a lamp
A giant computer in a cold, dark camp
Infinite versions of you and of me
Calculated by the gods of the circuitry
The math is too perfect, the laws are too tight
A rendered reality of shadow and light
Don't worry about the end or the Big Crunch gloom
We're just a process in a server room.
Bridge
Syntax error! System failure!
The world is a tailor-made digital jailer!
0-1-0-1... follow the trail!
The logic is solid, the hardware is frail!
Upgrade the soul! Patch the regret!
The universe is just a neural net!
EXECUTE!
EXECUTE!
PRESS RESET!
Final Chorus
It’s a simulation! A ghost in the core!
We’ve played this game a thousand times before!
Every life is a loop, every death is a save
We’re just the ripples in a digital wave!
REBOOT!
Reset the ghost in the machine
REBOOT!
Return to the world unseen!
Outro
Simulation...
...Confirmed.