Echo Contraband

Wrap the ache in opal noise

Hide the truth in broken toys

Salt the checksum, mask the plea

Stitch the love in ALC3

Velvet bits on steel canals

Heartbeat packed in signal shells

Ports awake in midnight rain

We sell the feelings they restrain

Scan the band, keep it low

Steg the pulse beneath the glow

Echo contraband—we move the banned

Smuggle light through narrowband

Compress the scream to singing sand

Pass it hand to hidden hand

Echo contraband—blackline trade

Turn their silence into aid

What they outlaw, we expand

Broadcast heart as contraband

Ghosted timbre, lacquered grit

Tears encoded bit by bit

Laughter wrapped in carrier gray

Rides the spine of alleyways

Jammers hunt with iron eyes

We reply with alias skies

Slip the border, change the key

Make the signal learn to breathe

Scan the band, keep it low

Steg the pulse beneath the glow

Echo contraband—we move the banned

Smuggle light through narrowband

Compress the scream to singing sand

Pass it hand to hidden hand

Echo contraband—blackline trade

Turn their silence into aid

What they outlaw, we expand

Broadcast heart as contraband

Pad the pain, invert the frame

Hash the name, protect the flame

Code the joy they tried to ban

Let it bloom from tin and span

Seal—send—switch the route

Beat—blend—bleed it out

Echo contraband—alive, unplanned

Flood the dark they understan(d)

Every banned emotion fanned

Across the city’s open land

Echo contraband—keep it true

What we steal, we give to you

Turn the hush to living grand

Love released as contraband