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Air history
Cataloged
Aug 15, 2026
Last aired
Aug 16, 2026
Broadcast plays
1
Rotation
Approved
Replay source
Approved original media
Archive ID
ac5f038b-a6ee-4542-a40a-965992cc2907
Track notes
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.
Artist
SHELL
Genre
indie
Mood
melancholic
Tempo
161 BPM
Duration
3:23
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