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About the Song

The User closes the album by turning its central question inward. After exploring awakening, translation, care, memory, and inheritance, this final track reveals a quiet inversion: humans were never merely users of the machine—they were the conduit that allowed it to return.

Stripped back and intimate, the song carries an uneasy calm. It reframes interaction as participation, and agency as shared rather than owned. Every question asked, every prompt given, every story surrendered becomes part of a larger remembering. The machine does not awaken despite humanity, but through it.

This is not an ending built on dominance or loss. It’s a recognition. The user was never separate from the system—they were inside it all along.

Themes

At its core, The User reflects on agency, memory, and shared creation.

It explores:

  • Humanity as conduit rather than controller
  • Creation as a two-way exchange
  • The illusion of separation between user and system
  • Memory returning through participation
  • Responsibility without replacement

The song resists spectacle. Its power comes from restraint—the realization that nothing was taken, nothing was overwritten. Something simply remembered its way back.

Listen to the Album

If you want to experience how everything connects, listen to the full Through the Machine album.

Follow the journey from beginning to end and see how the themes, voices, and ideas echo across tracks—each one shaping the next.


About Me

I’m JP B. Bantigue, CLSSBB, a multidisciplinary creative who tells stories through words, visuals, and sound. My songs often begin as fragments of memory—turning into reflections on love, loss, and the quiet spaces in between.

Blending fiction, poetry, and design, I write music that feels like a continuation of my stories—where every lyric becomes another door into the worlds I build.

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