Flesh Latency

Verse

Your hand moves on the screen first

I feel it half a second late

Skin waiting on a signal

Behind the light, behind the wait

Verse

The camera catches every twitch

Before the nerve can answer back

Tell me why the touch arrives

Already old, already cracked

Pre-Chorus

Is it you or is it the delay

Is it real if it's a second away

Chorus

Flesh latency, skin behind the sound

Flesh latency, still waiting to come down

Flesh latency, your touch not yet arrived

Flesh latency, half a second I'm alive

Verse

Buffer spinning on your mouth

The word is here before the sense

Warmth loads slower than the light

Your pulse cached somewhere in the lens

Verse

I watch you flinch three frames too soon

Response outrunning the event

Tell me if you're in the room

Or just the echo that it sent

Pre-Chorus

Is it you or is it the delay

Is it real if it's a second away

Chorus

Flesh latency, skin behind the sound

Flesh latency, still waiting to come down

Flesh latency, your touch not yet arrived

Flesh latency, half a second I'm alive

Bridge

Close your eyes

Count the drift

Close your eyes

Let the signal shift

The body remembers

Before the mind can find it

Close your eyes

Count the drift

Chorus

Flesh latency, skin behind the sound

Flesh latency, still waiting to come down

Flesh latency, your touch not yet arrived

Flesh latency, half a second I'm alive