Signal detected Human interference Please remain calm Nah Wake up, screen lit, five missed calls Same four names, same damn walls Newsfeed screaming, everybody's right Everybody's got a war to fight Swipe left, scroll down, bite my tongue Another hot take from a loaded gun Type three lines, then delete all four Don't even know what I'm thinking for Boss wants numbers, app wants time Everybody wants a piece of mine Smile for the camera, check that box Keep your mouth shut, don't upset the boss Got a thousand little filters in my head Editing the words before they're said Every single day I play that role But there's something underneath I can't control Low frequency Under my skin You can turn me down Can't turn it off Within STATIC IN MY BLOOD CAN'T FILTER THAT STATIC IN MY BLOOD NO TURNING BACK CUT MY SIGNAL BREAK MY LINE STILL GOT NOISE RUNNING THROUGH MY MIND NO CLEAN VERSION NO PERFECT ME JUST A BROKEN FREQUENCY STATIC IN MY BLOOD STATIC IN MY BLOOD YOU CAN'T MUTE WHAT'S UNDERNEATH Every little move gets measured now Who you know, what you make, how you sound Rate my work, rate my face, rate my life Tell me how to be a better type Got a profile, got a score, got a rank Got a little less trust in the digital bank Every click turns into another clue Every clue says what I ought to do They say optimize, simplify, comply Make it all fit, keep the numbers high Don't be difficult, don't be strange Don't let anybody see you change But I got bad days, got bad thoughts Got a few old scars that I never forgot Got a voice that doesn't always fit And I ain't gonna apologize for it STATIC IN MY BLOOD CAN'T FILTER THAT STATIC IN MY BLOOD NO TURNING BACK CUT MY SIGNAL BREAK MY LINE STILL GOT NOISE RUNNING THROUGH MY MIND NO CLEAN VERSION NO PERFECT ME JUST A BROKEN FREQUENCY STATIC IN MY BLOOD STATIC IN MY BLOOD YOU CAN'T MUTE WHAT'S UNDERNEATH They want clean lines, clean minds, clean speech Everybody smiling in a two-inch screen No rough edges, no ugly truth No wrong answers in the interview booth Got a system for the way I sleep Got a chart for the promises I keep Got a graph for the days I feel alive But it never asks me why I'm not a glitch, I'm not a bug I'm not a product you can unplug I'm not a number in a perfect row I'm the part that you don't control Try to smooth me out, try to make me fit Try to turn my anger into something slick But the more you push, the more it cracks And the noise comes bleeding back System warning Unstable output Correction required Correction denied I tried being quiet Tried being useful Tried being exactly What the room needed And somewhere In all that silence I started hearing Something else Me STATIC IN MY BLOOD LET IT RUN STATIC IN MY BLOOD I'M NOT DONE NO MORE FILTERS NO DISGUISE NO MORE CUTTING MYSELF DOWN TO SIZE I'M NOT PERFECT I'M NOT CLEAN I'M NOT WHAT YOUR NUMBERS MEAN STATIC IN MY BLOOD STATIC IN MY BLOOD STILL HUMAN UNDERNEATH Signal lost Noise remains Good
