Neon Adelita

Neon Adelita
by
Tingster & The Coyotitos

[Verse I]
In the canyon of cracked old stone,
Where the past and the neon have grown,
She walks like a tale long foretold —
A whisper of fire in the cold.

Steel-framed towers pierce the night,
Like conquistadors claiming starlight,
But her boots strike sparks on cobblestone,
The rebel ghost who walks alone.

[Pre-Chorus]
Her hat is wide, her gaze is wide —
She rides between the centuries' tide.
A circuit hums beneath her lace,
Rebellion coded on her face.

[Chorus]
Adelita of the afterlight,
Wearing roses and war in the same breath.
A heart of code, a soul in flight,
Dancing on the edge of death.
She sings for the lost and the dreaming,
A blaze in the rain-slick chrome.
Adelita, cyber-scheming,
Fighting to bring the children home.

[Verse II]
They burned the books, they blocked the stars,
Rewrote the scripts of who we are.
But she remembers lullabies —
In frequencies the drones despise.

Each stitch upon her rebel gown
Holds data fragments smuggled down —
The myths they tried to overwrite,
Now weaponized in hidden light.

[Bridge]
She dreams in colors not yet seen,
A tapestry of code and quinceañera dreams.
The ancients whisper in her thread,
"Viva la luz, though truth lies dead."

[Chorus ]
Adelita of the afterlight,
Where the cactus blooms in wires and dust.
The hackers chant by satellite,
And ancient saints renew their trust.
She rides through time and circuitry,
A marionette who cuts her strings.
Adelita, bound by dignity,
Strikes as prophecy softly sings.

[Outro]
So carve her name in molten stone,
A daughter of the dusk unknown.
For even when her tale is done,
She'll ride on rays of rebel sun.

And on the Day of Dead to come,
She'll rise where breath and binary drum —
With flowers born of data-streams,
And lullabies within our dreams...

Neon Adelita... she lives in dreams.