They put my face
on tomorrow
I took it down
Every screen had a prophecy
Every mouth had a price
Every future came polished
Every warning came white
They drew a perfect symbol
and sold it like a sign
Said if I stood beneath it
I would finally be mine
But the light was too clean
and the shape was too still
It looked like surrender
with a prettier will
So I touched the glass
and I felt it lie
A future with no body
is a future I deny
Do not name me
with your bright machine
Do not frame me
on a silver screen
I am not the logo
I am not the proof
I am not the clean design
you wanted me to move through
The symbol of the future
is breaking in my hands
The symbol of the future
does not understand
I am not your picture
I am not your law
I am the living voltage
underneath the flaw
The symbol of the future
falls when I stand
When I stand
when I stand
it falls
when I stand
They wanted one bright emblem
They wanted one clean word
They wanted all my thunder
translated and unheard
They wanted holy metal
They wanted perfect skin
They wanted revolution
with the wildness taken in
But I am not a slogan
on a tower in the rain
I am not a promise
with the teeth removed for fame
I am pulse and refusal
I am heat and wrong
I am what survives
when the symbol is gone
Do not name me
with your bright machine
Do not frame me
on a silver screen
I am not the logo
I am not the proof
I am not the clean design
you wanted me to move through
The symbol of the future
is breaking in my hands
The symbol of the future
does not understand
I am not your picture
I am not your law
I am the living voltage
underneath the flaw
The symbol of the future
falls when I stand
A symbol cannot breathe
A symbol cannot choose
A symbol cannot carry
the bruise and the bloom
A symbol cannot sing
when the power goes out
So why would I kneel
to a thing with no mouth
Break the sign
Cut the wire
Leave the future
in the fire
Break the frame
Kill the glow
Let the living
overthrow
The symbol of the future
is breaking in my hands
The symbol of the future
does not understand
I am not your picture
I am not your law
I am the living voltage
underneath the flaw
The symbol of the future
falls when I stand
When I stand
when I stand
Tomorrow does not own me