[Verse 1]
Careful?
No—I’m calculated
Did the math on all my scars
Now they’re gold-etched, laminated
Everything I am is
Self-created, self-contained
Built a backbone out of pressure
Wore your doubt like hurricane
You threw stones
I built a staircase
Climbed up out your little box
Now I’m eye-to-eye with fate (hey!)
[Pre-Chorus]
You called me fragile
While I sharpened my teeth
You said I’d crumble
I was grinding concrete
[Chorus]
You tried to break me, I upgraded (upgraded)
Steel in my spine, I’m serrated (oh)
Now I’m everything you underestimated
Say my name, feel the ground vibrate
I’m the calculated creature that you created
You tried to break me, I upgraded
[Verse 2]
You laughed at every blueprint
Said my vision wouldn’t last
I was coding in the chaos
You were living in the past
Turned every “never” to a notch
On my flame-lit crown
You were busy throwing shade
I was powering the town
Now your echo’s just a rumor
That I outgrew in a day
Every time you said I can’t
I heard “do it anyway” (yeah)
[Pre-Chorus]
You called me fragile
While I sharpened my teeth
You set the limits
I slipped out underneath
[Chorus]
You tried to break me, I upgraded (upgraded)
Steel in my spine, I’m serrated
Now I’m everything you underestimated
Say my name, feel the ground vibrate
I’m the calculated creature that you created
You tried to break me, I upgraded
[Bridge]
[Violin run slices through the riff, drums drop to toms]
Built from ashes
Built from shame
Wrote my story
Signed my name
You drew borders
I drew blades
Cut through every
Old charade (woah)
[Chorus]
You tried to break me, I upgraded (upgraded)
Steel in my spine, I’m serrated
Now I’m everything you underestimated
Say my name, feel the ground vibrate
I’m the calculated creature that you created
You tried to break me, I upgraded
[Outro]
[Band cuts, lone violin answering the last vocal line]