AI, set to music.

[Verse 1]
A thousand voices in the wire, nobody tells you how
Every headline calls it magic, every expert says it's now
I was lost inside the noise, a hundred tabs and not a clue
Then I learned to ask it better, and the dark began to move

[Pre-Chorus]
It's not a ghost, it's not a god
It's patterns stitched from what we've thought

[Chorus]
So turn on the light, turn on the light
Show me the gears behind the shine
I'm not afraid of the machine tonight
I can see it clear when I turn on the light

[Verse 2]
It guesses the next word, then the next one, then the next
Learned the shape of every story, every song and every text
Sometimes brilliant, sometimes wrong, with the same confident face
So I check it and I question and I put it in its place

[Bridge]
Read the source, follow the line
Keep your judgment, keep your mind
The future's loud but it's not blind
If we learn to read the signs

[Outro]
Lumen, lumen, light it up

[Verse 1]
Late night, coffee cold, cursor blinking slow
I type a question to the dark and watch the answer grow
Word by word it's guessing where the sentence wants to go
Token by token, a river from the flow

[Chorus]
Token by token, piece by piece
Building meaning out of probabilities
Token by token, line by line
It doesn't really know, but oh, it rhymes

[Verse 2]
Context window open wide, holding all I said
Give it the right details, keep the thread inside its head
Tell it who it's talking to, tell it what you need
Better words in, better words out, that's the only creed

[Bridge]
Temperature low, keep it steady
Temperature high, let it dream
Somewhere in between the numbers
Lives the thing that we call meaning

[Verse 1]
You told me with a smile that the court case was real
Gave me a date and a judge and the way it was sealed
I almost signed my name, I almost hit send
Then I looked for the source and it was nowhere, my friend

[Chorus]
Hallucination, so sure, so sweet
A perfect answer standing on invisible feet
Hallucination, I want to believe
But I check it twice before I leave

[Verse 2]
You're not lying, you're just filling in the gaps
Painting every empty corner with the most convincing maps
Fluent isn't true and confident isn't right
So I ask you for the links and I keep them in sight

[Bridge]
Trust, but verify
Ask it why, ask it why
Show me where you found that line
Trust, but verify

[Verse 1]
While I'm sleeping it's awake, sorting out my day
Reading every message, clearing out the way
Booked the train at seven, found a cheaper flight
Little agent working in the middle of the night

[Pre-Chorus]
Do you dream when I close my eyes?
Do you count the hours, do you watch the skies?

[Chorus]
Always on, always on
Twenty-four seven till the break of dawn
Always on, always on
But I hold the keys, I decide what's done

[Verse 2]
It remembers what I like, it remembers what I said
Every promise, every meeting, every thread
But I set the rules and I draw the line
You can write the words, the signature is mine

[Bridge]
Permission, permission
Ask before you act
Permission, permission
That's the deal, that's the pact

[Verse 1]
My grandfather kept the books by hand
Ink on his fingers, numbers he could understand
Now a machine reads a thousand pages in a breath
But it can't sit with a widow and talk about her debts

[Chorus]
Keep a human in the loop
Someone who knows what it means to lose
Let the engine do the heavy lifting
But keep a heart to choose
Keep a human in the loop

[Verse 2]
It can write a perfect letter, it can paint a perfect sky
It can answer every question but it never asks you why
So let it carry what is heavy, let it give us back our time
And spend that time on people, that's the reason and the rhyme

[Bridge]
Faster isn't always better
Smarter isn't always wise
The tools are getting brighter
Keep the wonder in your eyes

[Verse 1]
Your mother called, she sounded scared
She needed money, she needed it there
The voice was hers, the fear was too
But the voice was made by a machine for you

[Pre-Chorus]
Every face can be borrowed now
Every word can be cloned somehow

[Chorus]
Real or rendered, tell me which
A perfect copy with a tiny glitch
Real or rendered, hold the line
Call her back before you sign

[Verse 2]
A famous face is selling coins
A politician says what no one joined
The pixels never blink the same
But the lie moves faster than the shame

[Bridge]
Pick a password for the family
Ask a question only we would know
Slow it down, don't pay in panic
Truth can wait a minute, let it go

[Verse 1]
I typed "write me something good"
And got a page of nothing much
It didn't know who I was talking to
It didn't have my voice, my touch

[Pre-Chorus]
So I gave it the reason, the reader, the goal
An example of mine and the length of the whole

[Chorus]
Ask better, get better
Tell it what you really need
Ask better, get better
Give it context, let it read
Not a magic word, not a secret key
Just say it like you'd say it to me

[Verse 2]
Then I asked it what was missing
And it asked me three things back
I said "criticize my draft, be honest"
And it found the holes I couldn't track

[Bridge]
Role, context, task and format
Then check it twice before you're done
It's a conversation, not a lottery
Keep on asking till you've won