(Intro – static, city noise, soft ticking clock)
Breathe in… breathe out…
They’ll only care when you break loud enough to be heard…
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[Verse 1]
We dress in synthetic skin,
Scrollin’ lives we’ll never begin.
Smile for the feed, cry off-screen,
Sell our souls for dopamine.
Rich build castles from our pain,
While the poor dissolve in acid rain.
Preachin’ peace while pulling strings—
We’re just shadows in their puppet ring.
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[Pre-Chorus]
Where’s the truth in this neon noise?
A thousand likes, but no real voice.
We swallow lies like sugar pills,
In silence… the machine kills.
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[Chorus] (distorted beat kicks in, glitchy reverb)
It’s killin’ me softly, bleed me dry,
Smile on command while I learn to comply.
Strings on my wrists, can’t pull them away—
Scream in pixels, fade into grey.
They say I’m free, but I’m chained by design,
Barely alive in a world out of time.
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[Verse 2]
Wake up, paint my face, hit repeat,
Another day, another defeat.
Call it healing, call it numb,
But I’m hollow from what I’ve become.
They feed us fear and plastic hope,
Chain our minds with silver rope.
Obey or disappear—they say,
Wear their smile or fade away.
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[Bridge – Spoken Word / Breakdown] (glitchy voices, heartbeat rhythm building)
Tick… tock…
You feel that? That’s time bleeding out.
They say: “Don’t question, just produce.”
You’re not broken—just reduced.
What is freedom, if the system owns your spine?
What is life, when your will’s not mine?
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[Final Chorus – Raw and Intense]
It’s killin’ me softly, drownin’ inside,
Buried in wires where emotions die.
Strings on my wrists, this digital cage,
I scream in code—nothing escapes.
This world is burning, but no one sees,
We’re ghosts in glass, lost in machine dreams.
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[Outro – Whispered, fading static, faint heartbeat]
Keep it together…
Smile like it’s fine…
No one cares if you’re broken—
As long as you look alive.
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