"Love Protocol"

"Love Protocol" is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the eighth song and fifth single on their 2018 album Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures.

Lyrics
[Verse 1] You locked a knife inside my heart Buried a key inside my mind The maps surveyed, the X you chart Where our hands go to hide

[Pre-Chorus 1] Will our needs stay level As the terrain starts to grade high? Should I remain unsettled? Watch goodnight turn to goodbye Goodnight turn to goodbye

[Chorus] Hold on to me Tell me you've got me, sweetheart The world is going dim in my gaze Sweet vertigo Feel my lungs heaving, choking Clawing down my back, panic attack I'm alone, watch me float as I fall

[Verse 2] The soundtrack placed over this part It shares no rhythm of mine It juts and sways, it ends and starts All in and out of our time

[Pre-Chorus 2] Oh, I can be your dancer The one you set within your sights When I admit surrender Then maybe goodbye will turn to goodnight Goodbye will turn to goodnight

[Chorus] Hold on to me Tell me you've got me, sweetheart The world is going dim in my gaze Sweet vertigo Feel my lungs heaving, choking Clawing down my back, panic attack I'm alone, watch me float as I fall

[Bridge] Oh no, we have been cursed This stage set for a tragic verse Our love protocoled romance Our air drained of happenstance What have we turned ourselves into? This abstract personnel

[Chorus] Hold on to me Tell me you've got me, sweetheart The world is going dim in my gaze Sweet vertigo Feel my lungs heaving, choking Clawing down my back, panic attack I'm alone, watch me float as I fall Oh, watch me float Oh, watch me float Watch me float as I fall

Story Context
"" There doesn't seem to be a one-for-one with the novella for this song, but rather a sort of look into how Nia feels as she reunites with Nostrand.

Trivia

 * Travis Stever said that this song, though not originally written for the album specifically, felt like it should belong and the band came together to put music behind it and it seemed to come to life with them finding a place for it in the story.