[INTRO]
(Vinyl crackle… distant laughter… ticking clock…)
[OLD RADIO]
Welcome to the future!
Please keep smiling…
[SWING BEAT START]
[Verse 1]
Rain came down in neon lines
Backstreet clinic, borrowed time
Mother traded voice for sight
Oracle wires burned too bright
No tongue left to scream or cry
Only silence in his eyes
Little ghost in flickered white
Watching futures every night
Tick-tick—
Three seconds ahead
Tick-tick—
Another corpse dead
He saw the bullets split the rain
Then danced around them all again
[Chorus]
[CHANT]
Smile!
Smile!
Smile for the city tonight!
Crooked grin shining bright!
Monsters dancing in the light!
Step right up and watch him move!
Corp-sec’s got everything to lose!
No voice—
Still hears the screams.
Smiley lives inside the machine.
[Verse 2]
Gutter monks with bio fists
Chrome rejecters, data myths
Taught his body how to break
Every future in his wake
Mercs come crawling through the haze
Mask concealed his warning gaze
Mercy fades and fury spreads
One more future painted red
Every vision burns his mind
Friends corrupted, left behind
Every future worse than last
Still he punches through the glass
[Chorus]
[CHANT]
Smile!
Smile!
Smile for the city tonight!
Crooked grin shining bright!
Monsters dancing in the light!
Step right up and watch him move!
Corp-sec’s got everything to lose!
No voice—
Still hears the screams.
Smiley lives inside the machine.
[Bridge]
(Music cuts to soft jazz piano… projector clicking…)
[WHISPER]
He already knows…
…how this ends.
[BUILD — INDUSTRIAL CLANKING]
One more timeline.
One more fight.
One more future set alight.
[LAUGHTER]
Ha-ha-ha-ha—
[DROP]
[Verse 3]
Silent ghost in data streams
Punching holes through corporate dreams
Every grin a warning sign
Every future out of line
He fights for children never born
So they won’t wake up remade and torn
No more bargains.
No more chains.
No more smiling through the pain.
[Final Chorus]
[CHANT]
Smile!
Smile!
Smile for the city tonight!
Crooked grin shining bright!
Monsters dancing in the light!
Step right up and watch him move!
Corp-sec’s got everything to lose!
No voice—
Still hears the screams.
Smiley lives inside the machine.
[OUTRO]
(Ticking slows…)
[OLD RADIO]
Please…
keep smiling.
[STATIC]
Mr_Mundy