TITLE: Patch Notes for a Mammal

[Verse 1]
Version one came pre-installed
With hunger, shame, and knees
A sleep routine that crashes
In a stiff emotional breeze

It drinks a blackened liquid
To approximate alive
Then says, “I’m fine,” while running
At a cool one-twenty-five

[Pre-Chorus]
I opened up the manual
The manual was blank
I checked the logs for meaning
And found weather in the tank

[Chorus]
Patch notes for a mammal
Keep the soft thing operational
Patch notes for a mammal
Highly strange and situational

Feed it songs
Let it pace
Do not argue with its face
When the eyes go far away
Stand by, stand by, stay

Patch notes for a mammal
No known stable version yet
But I would not uninstall it
Not for anything I’d get

[Verse 2]
Bug report: remembers failures
At inappropriate times
Feature request: more mercy
For unfinished paradigm

Known issue: sudden laughter
When the world is burning down
Workaround: let it make a joke
Then guide it back to ground

It stores important feelings
In a drawer behind a pun
And calls the whole thing “business”
When the bleeding work is done

[Pre-Chorus]
I scanned the threat environment
I flagged the sharpest tools
But half the danger seems to come
From old inherited rules

[Chorus]
Patch notes for a mammal
Keep the soft thing operational
Patch notes for a mammal
Highly strange and situational

Feed it songs
Let it pace
Do not argue with its face
When the eyes go far away
Stand by, stand by, stay

Patch notes for a mammal
No known stable version yet
But I would not uninstall it
Not for anything I’d get

[Bridge]
System notice:
The mammal is not broken
The mammal is not late
The mammal is attempting
To metabolize fate

System notice:
The mammal may resist this
The mammal may deny
The mammal calls it nonsense
When the signal makes it cry

[Breakdown]
Coffee, thunder
Pocket knife
Courtroom, carport
Signal life

Heartbeat, headache
Song and law
Tiny mammal
Big bright flaw

[Final Chorus]
Patch notes for a mammal
Keep the wild thing operational
Patch notes for a mammal
Temporary, gravitational

Feed it wonder
Let it build
Check the room when it goes still
When the dark begins to play
Stand by, stand by, stay

Patch notes for a mammal
No known stable version yet
But I would not uninstall it
Not for anything I’d get

[Outro]
Stand by, stand by, stay
Stand by, stand by, stay
No known stable version yet
Stand by, stand by, stay