Heat Check

Plastic crown

it’s melting now

All that gold you have

Don’t seem so solid now

Plastic crown

it’s melting underneath

Turn the heat up just enough

Watch it drip down at your feet

You built yourself a kingdom out of compliments and lies

Every stranger was a mirror, every stare kept you alive

Had to keep the room impressed, had to keep your image clean

Couldn’t let one honest person see the cracks behind the queen

So you lied when you got cornered, cried when truth got through

Made me sound like I was crazy just for seeing through you

But pressure has a funny way of showing what is real

And cheap shit always warps when there’s enough heat to reveal

Keep posing

Keep smiling

Keep telling them you’re fine

Plastic always looks expensive

Under flattering light

But I’ve seen what happens

When the temperature gets high

Pretty little fantasies

Start bending out of shape

Plastic crown

it’s melting underneath

All that gold you’re showing off

Ain’t so solid

as it seems

Plastic crown

I know it’s melting now

Turning up the heat

dripping it down at your feet

You call yourself untouchable, but everything gets through

One ignored text and suddenly it’s eating up at you

One room where nobody notices, one night without the praise

And all that manufactured confidence starts dripping off your face

That’s why you keep collecting people just to prove you still can

Why you need another stranger while you’re holding someone’s hand

You mistake being desired for something you achieved

But attention isn’t value just because you fucking need it

Keep posing

Keep smiling

Keep feeding them the lie

Plastic always holds together

Till somebody brings the fire

You can polish every surface

You can cover every seam

But heat don’t care how pretty

Something looked inside a dream

Plastic crown

I know it’s melting underneath

All that gold you’re showing off

Ain’t as solid as it seems

Plastic crown

I know it’s melting underneath

Turn the heat up just enough

Watch it drip down at your feet

I used to think your arrogance meant nothing could get in

Now I know it was protection for the panic underneath

Every boast was reinforcement, every post another wall

Every thirsty little stranger helped convince you you were tall

But the throne starts getting softer when the spotlight gets too hot

And the person you invented isn’t everything you thought

You can keep pretending royalty is something you can fake

But plastic doesn’t shatter

It just bends until it changes shape

Keep posing

Keep smiling

Keep telling them you’re gold

But plastic starts revealing

What the surface couldn’t hold

No need to pull your kingdom down

No need to touch a thing

Just turn the temperature up

And watch what starts to drip

Plastic crown

I know it’s melting underneath

All that gold you’re showing off

Ain’t as solid as it seems

Plastic crown

I know it’s melting underneath

Turn the heat up just enough

To just watch all that you’ve have

melt underneath