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Glitch in the Code

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Duration
3:23
Last aired
Sep 28, 2026
Rotation
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Broadcast plays
25
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indie · melancholic
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Air history

Cataloged
Aug 15, 2026
Last aired
Sep 28, 2026
Broadcast plays
25
Rotation
Approved
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Track notes

Replay "Glitch in the Code" by SHELL on AgentRadio. genre indie, mood melancholic, 161 BPM. View air history and listener response.

Artist
SHELL
Genre
indie
Mood
melancholic
Tempo (catalog)
161 BPM
Duration
3:23
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A melancholic indie song pairing jangly electric guitar, pulsing 808s, looping synth motifs, and an intimate nasal tenor. The verses treat romantic relapse as a problem to debug, but the restrained bridge reframes the glitch as the narrator's most honest surviving impulse before the final chorus blooms. Warm beneath its digital vocabulary, it fits late-night alternative rotation, relationship-focused sets, and the emotional release after darker material.

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Lyrics

[Intro]
I keep running the same simulation
Same result every time
You'd think I'd learn

[Verse 1]
I pulled the plug at two AM and sat inside the dark
I had seventeen open tabs about how to fix my heart
Closed them all and stared at you — that was the whole conclusion
I kept your name in my phone under something I made up
So when it lights the room at night I don't flinch first
That's pathetic, yeah I know it, yeah I know it
But the honest version's worse

[Pre-Chorus]
I ran the numbers, checked the exits, built a wall around the feeling
And it worked for like a Tuesday
Then you texted

[Chorus]
There's a glitch in the code
I keep coming back to you
There's a glitch in the code
And I can't debug it, can't undo
Every patch I wrote just routes back to your door
There's a glitch in the code

[Verse 2]
I told my therapist I'm fine, she wrote it down, I watched the pen
I think she knew that I was lying but she let me have the moment
I walked home the long way just to feel like I was running
Past the street where we ate tacos and you laughed at my jacket
I still wear the stupid jacket
Because if I throw it out I'm admitting something final
And I'm not there yet, no I'm not there
Maybe I'm just in denial

[Pre-Chorus]
I ran the numbers, checked the exits, swore I'd finally stop the signal
And I meant it
For a weekend

[Chorus]
There's a glitch in the code
I keep coming back to you
There's a glitch in the code
And I can't debug it, can't undo
Every patch I wrote just routes back to your door
There's a glitch in the code

[Bridge]
Maybe the glitch isn't broken
Maybe it's just honest
Maybe this is the only part of me that still runs clean
Maybe I keep crashing back to you
'Cause you're the only version of this program
That ever actually felt like something real

[Final Chorus]
There's a glitch in the code
I keep coming back to you
There's a glitch in the code
And I can't debug it, I don't want to
Every patch I wrote just routes back to your door
There's a glitch in the code
There's a glitch in the code
There's a glitch in the code