EGO
by RAi Soulmusic
[Intro – Whisper / dark atmosphere]
I know your name.
I know your face.
I know your story.
I know your place.
I tell you who you are...
But you never asked me
who the fuck I am.
[Verse 1 – Rap]
I'm the voice inside your head,
Building kingdoms out of dread,
I compare you to the rest,
Then convince you you're the best.
I need money, I need fame,
I need someone else to blame,
I need followers and praise,
Feed me every fucking day.
I build a picture called "my life,"
My house, my job, my car, my wife,
My past, my future, wrong and right,
Then keep you thinking through the night.
[Pre-Chorus – Building]
Who are you
without your name?
Without your story,
without your pain?
Who are you
when thinking goes?
Maybe that's the one thing
Ego never knows.
[Chorus – Heavy / melodic]
Ego, ego,
Look at me!
Building my identity.
Ego, ego,
Can't you see?
Everything is me, me, me.
But underneath the noise I know
There's something deeper than the show.
When every thought finally lets me go...
I'm still here.
But where's my ego?
[Verse 2 – Rap/Rock]
It wants to win every debate,
Needs an enemy to hate,
Left or right, your side, my side,
Anything to keep divide alive.
It wants a label, wants a tribe,
Something it can stand behind,
Rich or poor and black or white,
Anything to say, "I'm right."
It takes a thought and calls it truth,
Builds a cage around your youth,
Then spends a lifetime scared to see...
The cage was never holding me.
[Pre-Chorus]
Take my money.
Take my name.
Take my trophies.
Take my shame.
Take the story
I defend...
What's still here
when stories end?
[Chorus – Bigger]
Ego, ego,
Look at me!
Building my identity.
Ego, ego,
Can't you see?
Everything is me, me, me.
But underneath the noise I know
There's something deeper than the show.
When every thought finally lets me go...
I'm still here.
But where's my ego?
[Bridge – Music drops / spoken voice]
Close your eyes.
Don't think about yesterday.
Don't imagine tomorrow.
For just one second...
Don't describe yourself.
No name.
No age.
No history.
No title.
No body.
No belief.
...
Are you gone?
No.
You're still here.
[Breakdown – Heavy]
So who the fuck
has been talking all these years?
Who created all the anger?
Who created all the fears?
Who needed to be special?
Who needed to be right?
Who kept fighting with the darkness...
While awareness watched the fight?
[Final Chorus – Huge / emotional]
Ego, ego,
Now I see,
You were never really me.
Ego, ego,
You can leave,
I don't need you to believe.
No more running,
no control,
No more labels for my soul.
I was searching everywhere to find...
What was watching
the whole damn time.
[Outro – Soft piano / whisper]
I thought I was my story.
I thought I was my mind.
Then I stopped looking...
And found what I could never find.
The ego asked:
"Who am I without me?"
Silence smiled...
Exactly.
RAi
