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Permanent Access lyrics
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Intro
VR boot. Tape rip. Elevator ding. Then the hallway breathes. Now the login asks for home.
Verse 1
Then, 2026, boxes by the stove, formal notice sweating on the table. Maya Grade 3, Jay ’26 in tape, my hoodie wrapped around the router cable. Elevator coughed; my brother counted floors, I wrote my name on cardboard like a receipt.
Pre-chorus
Then, sign here, keep calm, be gone. Now, same hall, lights on. You can’t renew a childhood.
Chorus
Permanent access, I paid for the ghost. Now I bought the block but I still can’t go home. Then my name was taped on a box. Now my kids sleep safe where servers don’t stop. Permanent, permanent-access. Home ain’t home when the key don’t scratch. I own the copy, not the bones.
Verse 2
Now, 2036, lobby glass shines, same cracked tile wearing a luxury pass. Mrs. R smiles too clean to be real, sweeping dust the model never had. Juice bar where the mailboxes leaned, window still opens where the rent blew through.
Verse 3
Then, Dad said court; Mom said Queens, Auntie said farther out or cheaper cities. Bills spoke louder than pride in the room, kids hid in headsets and cracked phone screens. Baby shoes under leaning box towers, every cheaper answer moved a school with it.
Pre-chorus
Then, sign here, keep calm, be gone. Now, same hall, lights on. You can’t renew a childhood.
Chorus
Permanent access, I paid for the ghost. Now I bought the block but I still can’t go home. Then my name was taped on a box. Now my kids sleep safe where servers don’t stop. Permanent, permanent-access. Home ain’t home when the key don’t scratch. I own the copy, not the bones.
Verse 4
Now the app glitched under 5B, blue tape halo spinning in air. Unlockable memory, silver-tier prize, eviction scene, family share. My child asked, why cry if we won? I paused the block and heard tape rip clean.
Bridge
Then-now, then-now, hallway stutter. Box to headset, rent to rubber. Then-now, then-now, elevator lag. Childhood sold back in a shopping bag.
Verse 5
Now I bought permanent access, no rent jump, no knock, no scare. My kids pick rooms in simulated light, daughter hangs her coat on rendered brass. Then we lost the floor; now I own the file. False victory glows on a child’s profile.
Pre-chorus
Then, sign here, keep calm, be gone. Now, same hall, lights on. You can’t renew a childhood.
Chorus
Permanent access, I paid for the ghost. Now I bought the block but I still can’t go home. Then my name was taped on a box. Now my kids sleep safe where servers don’t stop. Permanent, permanent-access. Home ain’t home when the key don’t scratch. I own the copy, not the bones.
Outro
Tape rip crossfades with street noise. VR hum folds in. Elevator ding. Then my old block breathes. Now the screen says saved. Permanent access.
Inside the recording
VR boot. Tape rip. Elevator ding. Then the hallway breathes.
Then, sign here, keep calm, be gone. Now, same hall, lights on.
Tape rip crossfades with street noise. VR hum folds in. Elevator ding.
Excerpts from artist-supplied lyric files matched by title. Lyric sheets may differ from the released performance.