Digital Artifacts

This track comes from leadership earned through service, failures, and rebuilding — the long game of legacy. It tackles The digital traces we leave behind - git commits, text messages, photos, code, music - the archaeological record of a digital life. The lyrics get specific — "To someone I'll never meet, in a time I'll never see" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The soul production matches the energy of the confession. It hits contemplative and melancholic, 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] When archaeologists dig through the servers of tomorrow They'll find my git commits like pottery, each one a sorrow Or a triumph compressed into a hash and a message Timestamped evidence of every digital session Hundred sixty-eight thousand texts like hieroglyphics Telling stories that are mundane and terrific All at once, a life in metadata Who I called, when I called, where I was at a Given moment that felt ordinary then But becomes an artifact when you'll never call again [chorus] Digital artifacts of a life lived loud Screenshots, commits, and a music cloud We leave more traces than any generation before Digital artifacts on the ocean floor Of the internet, where the data sinks and swims Digital artifacts of the life I've been in [verse 2] My Spotify history is a biography in playlists The songs I looped during the heartbreaks and the greatest Moments of my life are timestamped in the streams Future anthropologists studying my dreams Through algorithm data, what he listened to at two AM Tells you more about a man than his LinkedIn can And the photos, my God, the photos on the cloud Thousands of a life that I lived out loud Folly sunsets, Navy ships, coding screens at midnight Each one a pixel in the picture of my life right [chorus] Digital artifacts of a life lived loud Screenshots, commits, and a music cloud We leave more traces than any generation before Digital artifacts on the ocean floor Of the internet, where the data sinks and swims Digital artifacts of the life I've been in [bridge] The Egyptians had their pyramids The Romans had their roads We have our GitHub repos And our episode loads Our Amazon order histories Our Google Maps timelines The most documented generation Leaving the most intricate signs That we were here, we lived, we built We loved in timestamps and in guilt Of too much screen time, but the screen Is where the record's always been [verse 3] So I'm intentional now about the artifacts I leave Every commit message crafted like a letter I believe Someone will read someday when the code gets old Every song I write is a story to be told To someone I'll never meet, in a time I'll never see But the digital artifacts will carry me Beyond the boundaries of biology and breath Aaron Stransky's legacy outlasting death In the ones and zeros of a life fully spent Every text, every push, every line of code I sent Into the void that turns out isn't void at all It's a museum of the digital, and my name's on the wall [chorus] Digital artifacts of a life lived loud Screenshots, commits, and a music cloud We leave more traces than any generation before Digital artifacts on the ocean floor Of the internet, where the data sinks and swims Digital artifacts, this is where I've been [outro] Every keystroke a footprint Every commit a monument Digital artifacts Lasting longer than stone