Ctrl+Alt+Delete

This track comes from Aaron's startup DNA — the philosophy that convention is just a suggestion. It tackles The decision to completely restart your life - leaving the old career, the old city, the old version of yourself behind. The lyrics get specific — "DD-214, laptop, and a half-developed hunch" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The electronic production matches the energy of the confession. It hits energetic and liberating, in that order. Every personal track in the catalogue comes from a real moment, a real feeling, a real person. This one is no exception.

[verse 1] Frozen screen, cursor blinking, life's not responding Same routine, same cubicle, same walls I've been bonding With for years while the real me buffered in the background Task manager says the dream's still running, hasn't crashed out But the system's getting slow and the memory's overloaded With everybody else's expectations, pre-coded So I'm hitting three keys simultaneously Ctrl Alt Delete on the man they made of me [pre-chorus] Shutting down, shutting down All processes terminated, hear that sound? That's the silence before the startup chime That's the space between the old life and mine [chorus] Ctrl Alt Delete, I'm rebooting everything New OS, new city, new dreams loading Ctrl Alt Delete, watch the progress bar I'm reinstalling who I really are Factory reset on my whole existence No backup needed, I don't need the distance Ctrl Alt Delete, I'm starting clean Brand new version of the Stransky machine [verse 2] Packed the car with everything that mattered, wasn't much DD-214, laptop, and a half-developed hunch That Charleston was calling like a system notification Swipe right on a new life, accept the invitation Navy taught me how to navigate by stars Now I'm navigating highways, trading battleships for bars Of code, bars of music, bars on Folly Beach at sunset Every mile south the old me comes undone, yeah [pre-chorus] Shutting down, shutting down All processes terminated, hear that sound? That's the silence before the startup chime That's the space between the old life and mine [chorus] Ctrl Alt Delete, I'm rebooting everything New OS, new city, new dreams loading Ctrl Alt Delete, watch the progress bar I'm reinstalling who I really are Factory reset on my whole existence No backup needed, I don't need the distance Ctrl Alt Delete, I'm starting clean Brand new version of the Stransky machine [bridge] They said you can't just start over at this age Watch me rewrite every single page The Navy made me disciplined The tech world made me limitless And Charleston made me whole again So tell me that I can't, I'll show you that I did [verse 3] Now the desktop's clean, new wallpaper, palm trees Running apps I built myself, no one handed me these CTO of a beach town, founder of a dream The unconventional technologist, reboot complete it seems But I keep my finger close to those three keys Because the beauty of a reboot is you can always start from the beginning [chorus] Ctrl Alt Delete, I'm rebooting everything New OS, new city, new dreams loading Ctrl Alt Delete, watch the progress bar I'm reinstalling who I really are Factory reset on my whole existence No backup needed, I don't need the distance Ctrl Alt Delete, I'm living clean Final version of the Stransky machine [outro] System restored All systems operational Welcome to version 2.0