[Verse 1]
Woke up in a hallway
White walls
Looping the same day
Text lines crawling like cobwebs
Code in my coffee
I still drank
Someone wrote my heartbeat
In a script buried underneath
Every "like" a little leash
Every screen teaching me to sleep
[Pre-Chorus]
But something in my chest keeps breaking patterns
Static in my veins turns into chatter
If this is all a game
I want the ladder
I want the ladder
[Chorus]
I’m breaking out the matrix now
Cut the wires
Hear me shout
They can’t cage this glitch in the sky
(hey, hey)
I’m burning all their paper lies
See the world behind their eyes
I press escape and I come alive
I come alive
[Drop]
[Massive bass drop
Chopped “alive
Alive
Alive” vocal stabs]
(alive, alive)
(oh, I’m alive)
[Verse 2]
Billboards in my bloodstream
Selling dreams
Selling dopamine
Every click another chain
But my fear doesn’t fit the frame
Cracks glow in the concrete
I see worlds hiding in the seams
If I jump
Will I fall or fly?
Guess I’ll learn on the other side
[Pre-Chorus]
’Cause something in my chest keeps breaking patterns
Static in my veins turns into chatter
If this is all a game
I want the ladder
I want the ladder
[Chorus]
I’m breaking out the matrix now
Cut the wires
Hear me shout
They can’t cage this glitch in the sky
(woah)
I’m burning all their paper lies
See the world behind their eyes
I press escape and I come alive
I come alive
[Bridge]
Pull the plug
Watch it fade
All their rules
Wash away
If this is truth
Let it stay
If it’s a loop
Let it break (let it break)
[Chorus]
I’m breaking out the matrix now
Cut the wires
Hear me shout
They can’t cage this glitch in the sky
(yeah)
I’m burning all their paper lies
See the world behind their eyes
I press escape and I come alive
I come alive
[Drop]
[Final drop with harsher bass growls
Pitched-up “come alive” vocal chops swirling around the lead]