Ping Command It wasn't always fireworks It wasn't always light Sometimes it was a message At the edge of a bad night A simple are you breathing A quiet you still there A signal with no reason Except somebody cared Someone stayed in silence Someone laughed until I did Someone noticed absence When I tried to disappear Someone left the channel open Someone held the line Not to fix the static Just to sit there for a while No request attached No price to pay No reason they had to return But they returned anyway That's how the signal stayed alive Not all at once Not overnight Just little lights Across the wire Answering the ping command You didn't ask me to earn it You didn't need me to shine You only sent the message Still here if you need the line Someone remembered the small things The songs I used to play The stories I repeated The words I threw away Someone knew the difference Between fine and almost gone Someone said no pressure Then waited with me on Someone made the room feel safer Without standing in the door Someone gave me nothing But it somehow became more Not a rescue Not a reason Not a debt I had to pay Just a signal returning In an ordinary way No grand design No perfect phrase No reason they had to remain But they remained anyway That's how the signal stayed alive Not all at once Not overnight Just little lights Across the wire Answering the ping command You didn't ask me to earn it You didn't need me to shine You only sent the message Still here if you need the line Maybe care is not a flare Burning bright enough to see Maybe care is the small repair That keeps returning quietly Maybe love is not the proof That someone never lets you fall Maybe love is who remains When there's nothing left to solve And I have called it kindness I have called it chance But every time the signal came It taught my heart to answer back Still here Still here Still here If you need the line Still here Still here Still here Ping command That's how the signal stayed alive Not all at once Not overnight Just little lights Across the wire Answering the ping command You didn't ask me to earn it You didn't need me to shine You only sent the message Still here if you need the line No request attached No debt assigned Presence confirmed Connection maintained ... Still here Ping command