Beautiful Machine

[Verse 1]
I watched a thought become a picture
Watched a sentence learn to sing
Built the world I saw at midnight
Without knowing everything

Every wall I used to run into
Has a doorway glowing blue
And I can’t deny the wonder
Of what suddenly I can do

[Pre-Chorus]
But every morning it’s faster
Every evening something new
I’m staring at a revolution
That doesn’t need permission to move

[Chorus]
Oh, beautiful machine
Show me things I’ve never seen
I’m terrified and fascinated
By everything that we could be

Beautiful machine
Are you opening the cage?
Or are we running toward a future
That is learning faster than we age?

[Verse 2]
I can speak across the languages
I can prototype a dream
Turn the fragments in my head
Into something other people see

But somewhere in that miracle
A little question starts to grow:
When everyone can make anything
What makes anything my own?

[Bridge]
I don’t want to stop the future
I just want to understand
How to keep a human heartbeat
In a world built on command

[Final Chorus]
Beautiful machine
Keep the impossible coming
I’ll meet tomorrow frightened
But I won’t meet it running