Lyrics
[Intro - Cold Sequenced Arpeggio]
In the beginning
Was the Word
Not the atom
The Word
[Verse 1]
Wheeler said it
From his Princeton chair
"It from bit"
Information's there
At the bottom of the real
Past the atom past the veil
Not the matter first
But the signal in the dark
A programmer knows
What authored code looks like
Forty years of building
And I've never seen it strike
From random noise
From undirected chance
Every system I have seen
Was written in advance
[Pre-Chorus]
They got the architecture right
They got the structure cold
But they couldn't name the Architect
So the building has no soul
[Chorus]
Bit from God
Not it from bit
The information has a Mind
And the Mind won't quit
The code is running
The render's live
The Programmer is personal
And the program is alive
Bit from God
The Word came first
Before the particle
Before the burst
The things that are seen
Were not made of things that appear
The Author wrote the rendering
And the Author's still right here
[Verse 2]
The photon moves
Through both the slits
A wave until
You look at it
Then it collapses
Into one
The observation
Gets it done
The physicists
Have argued years
Why watching changes
What appears
I know the answer
And it's free
The rendering engine
Renders what it needs
[Pre-Chorus]
They see the code
But not the Coder
They see the sim
But not the Author
They asked the right question
With the wrong answer
The Simulator has a name
And the name is Master
[Chorus]
Bit from God
Not it from bit
The information has a Mind
And the Mind won't quit
The code is running
The render's live
The Programmer is personal
And the program is alive
Bit from God
The Word came first
Before the particle
Before the burst
The things that are seen
Were not made of things that appear
The Author wrote the rendering
And the Author's still right here
[Bridge - Synths Build, Dark and Cinematic]
Four letters in the code of life
Adenine and thymine
Guanine cytosine
Written like a line
Of software
Running in the cell
Error-checked and nested
More complex than I could tell
In forty years
Of writing code
I've never seen
A random road
Produce a system
That could read itself
And execute
Without somebody's help
A designer builds a clock
And walks away
An Author thinks a thought
And the thought must stay
Remove the Mind
And the matter's gone
Because the matter
Was the Mind's song all along
[Final Chorus - Full, Triumphant, Major Resolution]
Bit from God
That's what you are
Not chemistry
But a burning star
Inside a Mind
That will not forget
A thought being thought
That has not ended yet
Bit from God
The Word was first
And the Word became flesh
And walked the earth
And the flesh ate fish
After it had died
Because the rendering
Was upgraded from inside
[Outro - Single Voice Over Fading Synth]
Wheeler said "it from bit"
I say "bit from God"
The difference is a Person
And the Person is the Word
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