System Failure - Neuro-Nihil

Single de Neuro-Nihil [Verse 1] The city runs on seventeen million lines of code Seventeen million points of failure on the road Arasaka owns the infrastructure, Militech owns the grid Every light, every door, every life — that's what they did They built a perfect system — perfect for control Perfect for extraction, perfect for the toll But perfect systems have a flaw they never advertise Perfect systems fall the hardest when the error multiplies [Chorus] When the walls come down they come down all at once When the code breaks clean it breaks through every front Nobody owns the chaos when the system hits the floor The city belongs to everyone — the city belongs to no one anymore Let it fail — let it all fail [Verse 2] The blackout started somewhere in the Watson grid A cascading failure nobody predicted One corrupted node, one unpatched protocol One crack in seventeen million lines — that's all The Corpo towers went dark floor by floor The surveillance drones lost signal — lost their war For forty minutes Night City belonged to itself For forty minutes nobody's property — nobody's wealth [Chorus] When the walls come down they come down all at once When the code breaks clean it breaks through every front Nobody owns the chaos when the system hits the floor The city belongs to everyone — the city belongs to no one anymore Let it fail — let it all fail [Verse 3] We were there when the grid went down in Watson We played a concert in the dark — no permission No surveillance, no drones, no Corpo jurisdiction Three hundred people in a blackout — pure ignition The amplifiers running on a stolen generator The crowd a single organism — nothing greater For forty minutes the system failed completely For forty minutes we were free — we were free completely [Chorus] When the walls come down they come down all at once When the code breaks clean it breaks through every front Nobody owns the chaos when the system hits the floor The city belongs to everyone — the city belongs to no one anymore Let it fail — let it all fail [Verse 4] They patched the grid by morning — of course they did They always patch the grid — they always close the lid They audit every node, they harden every wall They build the system back and make it taller, make it tall But seventeen million lines of code means seventeen million cracks And we've been mapping every single one — we're keeping track The next blackout won't be accidental — won't be random noise The next blackout will have a soundtrack — will have a voice [Bridge] Watson — dark Kabuki — dark Japantown — dark Corpo Plaza — dark Night City — ours Night City — ours For forty minutes For forty minutes Let it fail Let it all fail [Outro] When the walls come down they come down all at once When the code breaks clean it breaks through every front Nobody owns the chaos when the system hits the floor The city belongs to everyone — the city belongs to no one anymore Let it fail Let it all fail Seventeen million cracks We know every one