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.
Lyrics
[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.