Not Entirely Me

[Intro: Toy piano, glitch clicks]
(What if?)
What if I try it sideways?

[Verse 1]
I brought the years of wrong turns
The lessons I could barely name
I fed a thought to something faster
Watched it hand me back a change
It guessed a hundred endings
I pulled apart the clever ones
Kept the strange mistake that sounded
Like a question I'd begun

[Pre-Chorus]
It didn't know what moved me
I didn't know what it could do

[Chorus: Soaring syncopated harmonies]
Not entirely me
But undeniably mine
A little borrowed logic
And a lifetime in the design
I didn't make each fragment
I chose which ones could sing
If you trace the shape of every choice
You'll find me in the thing

[Verse 2]
I turn a bit of code to color
Turn a lecture into sound
Let a half-forgotten rhythm
Turn the neat result around
Some ideas arrive uninvited
Some are built from what I know
And the work becomes a stranger
With my fingerprints below

[Bridge: Stuttering voices]
(Generate)
No, try again
(Combine)
That curve won't bend
(Unexpected)
Keep that flaw
It's the first thing I adored

[Final Chorus: Explosive harmonies]
Not entirely me
But undeniably mine
No single hand made every note
Yet I can tell you why
I want the world to surprise me
I want to answer in kind
It wasn't made by me alone
But it bears the shape of my mind

[Outro: Solo toy piano]
I recognize it.
I never could have planned it.