Pick one.
Both are real.
Both are real.
Neon smoke on the skybridge wire,
Two rings at once like a held-back fire,
My screen splits clean down the center, centerline,
Same city, different t-time.
Chrome Alley flickers in duplicate light,
Data Spire bends like a signal knife,
Every “hello” arrives in ste, stereo,
And both of them sound like they kn, know.
When the feed won’t choose a side,
When the map re-draws mid-stride,
When the same emergency lands tw, twice,
I feel the moment cryst, crystallize.
Calls coll, collide
Calls coll, collide
And the whole city sh-sh-shivers in my lines
Calls coll, collide
Calls coll, collide
Two futures speaking at the same time
If I answer left, I lose the right
If I answer right, I lose my life
Calls coll, collide
Calls coll, collide
Calls coll, collide
Calls coll, collide
I turn in, in, infinite tonight
One caller cries in yesterday’s rain,
One caller breathes in tomorrow’s flame,
Same address, same street name sign,
Different bodies on the same time, timeline.
My console shakes like it’s overhearing god,
Route arrows twist, then hit a wall,
And every time I try to “send”,
The city answers be, before I can.
When the sirens don’t match the scene,
When the footage turns ev, evergreen,
When the line becomes a doorway wide,
I step through as it opens, t-twice.
Calls coll, collide
Calls coll, collide
And the whole city sh-sh-shivers in my lines
Calls coll, collide
Calls coll, collide
Two futures speaking at the same time
If I answer left, I lose the right
If I answer right, I lose my life
Calls collide
Calls collide
The calls coll, collide to, tonight
I turn in, in, infinite tonight
I was a voice in a room with doors,
Now I’m a switchboard for parallel storms,
And every choice I try to hold,
Splits again, then spl, splits again, cold.
Say my name in either world,
It comes back bl, blurred, it comes back curled,
Like the city learned a brand-new rule.
One truth isn’t enough to p-pull.
Two rings, one breath, one chance to decide,
I feel the break in the daylight sky,
I don’t fall,
I don’t hide,
I become the place where endings coll, collide.
Calls coll, collide
Calls coll, collide
And the whole city sh-sh-shivers in my lines
Calls coll, collide
Calls coll, collide
Two futures speaking at the same time
I take the sound, I take the night
I take the split and make it mine
Calls collide
Calls collide
The calls coll, collide to, tonight
I turn in, in, infinite tonight
This isn’t one call anymore.
It’s a con, convergence.
The calls coll, collide to, tonight
I turn in, in, infinite tonight
The calls coll, collide to, tonight
I turn in, in, infinite tonight