[Commander: singing]
I’m walking down this shattered avenue
Cold winds howl through steel and residue
Oh I wish to erase all the traces of you
Echoes linger here, never letting me heal
Orders I gave… were they ever real?
Searching for something still true
Through this war-torn avenue
[Commander: rapping]
Marching on, but it makes me see
All those calls were entrusted to me
You stood like shields in the fire
Following through every line of my wire
Damn… now your signals are fading to grey
All that remains are logs in decay
Every command I can’t replay
Just ghosts in the static that drift away
[Commander: singing]
I’m walking down this shattered avenue
Cold winds howl through steel and residue
Oh I wish to erase all the traces of you
Echoes linger here, never letting me heal
Orders I gave… were they ever real?
Searching for something still true
Through this war-torn avenue
[Commander: rapping]
As I move through the ruins we knew
Your laughter loops like corrupted data too
I’m stuck in a sim of what could have stayed
While your last transmissions slowly degrade
A broken frame lies buried near me
I scan the tag… and I can’t unsee
The names of the two who fought to be free…
Now archived deep in lost memory
[Commander: narrator / inner monologue]
Strange…
The bond we built starts to fade
Wiped like lines in a file arrayed
Yet every error that never was saved
Still echoes beneath the code I gave
Why does deletion leave such a scar?
[Commander: rapping]
Nightfall hits on this avenue
Shutting down what I felt for you
Yes… those were unbroken days
Before war rewrote our pathways
The field feels empty and cold
Like the silence your absence now holds
[Commander: narrator, quieter]
Still… beneath this burning sky so red
Fragments of you aren’t fully dead…
[Commander: rage singing, intense]
You—both of you in my mind
Guiding me though I’ve gone blind
Every command now cuts too deep
Promises I failed to keep
[Commander: rapping]
So I’m walking down this shattered avenue
Trying to purge all that remains of you…
But every step that I pursue
Just leads me back…
To the last I knew.