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[Verse 1]
Rusted metal, a capsule of ice, Outside — wasteland, inside — a void. Eyes flew open — but where was my life?
No name, no face — just the dark and the noise.
Someone whispers: "You're alive, don't fear,"
Nomad hands — warm, but foreign to me.
I stare at the sky — grey, crooked, unclear,
And I don't know who I'm supposed to be.
[Pre-Chorus]
They gave me a name — Naya,
Taught me to shoot, to survive, to breathe.
But inside — an empty cage with no player,
Something sleeps in me — and wants to be free.
[Chorus]
Echo-7 — who was she before?
Echo-7 — the one who's no more?
In the Net a stranger's silhouette glows,
Screaming with my voice: "Oblivion — no!"
Echo-7 — am I her, or not?
Echo-7 — I am what I've got!
[Verse 2]
Half a year in the wastes — home is a flame,
Rake teaches laughter, Naya — my kin. I breathe in the ozone and rust and the rain,
Learning to see where the lies grow thin.
They never asked where I crawled out from, They just pulled me in — and that was enough.
But the neural port hammers my skull like a drum —
Memory wants back — through fire and blood.
[Transition]
Midgard terminal — neurocord in my fist,
The Net woke up like a scream in the black.
A face bleeds through the digital mist: "You're a traitor. Go quiet. Don't come back."
[Chorus]
Echo-7 — who was she before?
Echo-7 — the one who's no more?
In the Net a stranger's silhouette glows,
Screaming with my voice: "Oblivion — no!"
Echo-7 — am I her, or not?
Echo-7 — I am what I've got!
[Verse 3]
Night City burns — I walk through the smoke,
Watson and gutters, the chrome and the grime.
My mind sold me out — but I didn't choke,
The skills came back — both theirs and mine.
Victor Kline — you thought you'd erased,
That a person is just a sentence to serve.
But I carry the file of every word you placed —
The truth hits harder than anything you deserved.
[Transition]
I didn't pull the trigger — I just pressed "leak,"
Let Night City answer for the life that it seeks.
[Chorus]
Echo-7 — who was she before?
Echo-7 — the one who's no more?
In the Net a stranger's silhouette glows,
Screaming with my voice: "Oblivion — no!"
Echo-7 — am I her, or not?
Echo-7 — I am what I've got!
[Bridge]
In the neural net — a collision of pain and light,
Memory floods in — faces, codes, and the night.
Everything I was — and everything I became,
Naya and Echo — forged from the same flame.
I choose — not the shadow, not the ghost of the past,
I choose — this dawn, this day, built to last.
The ones who kept me warm by the fire at night,
The ones worth staying silent for — and worth the fight!
[Final Chorus]
Echo-7 — I know who I am!
Echo-7 — survived — that was the plan!
Through darkness and data, through fire and pain,
I chose for myself who to be — that's my name!
Echo-7 — to the past — goodbye!
I am the one who decides. Always. I.
[Outro] (Synthesizer fades — a quiet electronic pulse remains) "Who am I now… now… now…"
