HD Online Era & Red Rings

Lyrics

[Intro]White curve on the shelf.Green ring of light, a perfect circle.A promise kept.[Verse 1]It was November 22, 2005.The box smelled like the future.You were code-named Xenon, all sharp angles and potential.I plugged you in, watched the blades whir across the screen.Slipped the foam cover on the headset mic, a little gray astronaut.My friends' voices, tinny and clear, from a thousand miles away.High definition. Finally.[Chorus]And we were gods on Xbox Live.Midnight sessions, burning through the hours.The high-pitched whine of your fan was the soundtrack to our lives.Just one more match. Just one more quest.The green circle glowing, telling us we were connected.Telling us we were home.[Verse 2]The heat coming off your back vents, that specific smell of warm circuits.55 degrees Celsius inside your white plastic shell.I could hear the ATI Xenos GPU screaming through another level.You never slept. We never slept.Just the hum and the glow and the voices in the dark.You were the center of the room.The center of everything.[Chorus]And we were gods on Xbox Live.Midnight sessions, burning through the hours.The high-pitched whine of your fan was the soundtrack to our lives.Just one more match. Just one more quest.The green circle glowing, telling us we were connected.Telling us we were home.[Bridge]And then, the screen froze.The sound locked into a single, ugly buzz.Then, silence.The fan stopped.The green light... vanished.And in its place... three red arcs.Three angry brake lights in the dark.My heart just stopped.I wrapped you in a towel, a desperate prayer to reflow the solder.A sickroom ritual for a dying friend.[Outro]Three red rings of death.A billion-dollar mistake from Redmond.You sit there now, a silent white brick.Peter Moore got the tattoo, they extended the warranty in 2007.But mine just sits here.A monument to the best nights of my life.And the silence that came after.