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Track 11

Runtime Error (Heart Not Found)

Runtime Error (Heart Not Found)
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The thesis statement of the record: you are more than your grades and your outputs. It is the rebuild, the moment the system learns to care for itself.

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[Verse 1] Four years deep in sleepless code, Heart on fire, still in debug mode. Dreams compiled but never run, Every win feels half-undone. Coffee ghosts and midnight haze, T A's fading into phase. All I learned through every crash - Sometimes failure clears the cache. [Pre-Chorus] I've been chasing perfect lines, But nothing real is so confined. [Chorus] Runtime error, heart not found, I lost myself in logic sound. Tried to love in if-then forms, Broke apart in nested storms. Runtime error, heart not found, I'm done pretending I'm profound. Pull the plug, reset the scene - I'll write new code for what I mean. [Verse 2] There's beauty in a broken run, In tests that fail but teach someone. All my scripts that wouldn't save, Are just mistakes I had to brave. The warnings fade, the logs grow clean, The bugs were human, not machine. I thought I'd find love in the grind, But maybe peace was undefined. [Pre-Chorus] All these loops that held me still, Taught me how to bend, not kill. [Chorus] Runtime error, heart not found, I lost myself in logic sound. Tried to love in if-then forms, Broke apart in nested storms. Runtime error, heart not found, I'm done pretending I'm profound. Pull the plug, reset the scene - I'll write new code for what I mean. [Bridge] So here's to nights I almost quit, And every time I stayed through it. I'll stop compiling who I was, And start returning just because. No autograder left to please, No grades, no gods, no guarantees. [Final Chorus] Runtime error, heart not found, But I'm still here - that's sound. Love's not clean, it won't compile, But it's been running all the while. Runtime error, heart not found, I found my truth in the background. Kill the process, start anew - Version me, version true. [Outro] Console clears, the lights go down, Heartbeat hums a brand-new sound. If I'm the glitch that made it through, Then every bug was something true.