# **STATIC (A War Inside)**
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## **[VERSE 1 — JACK | Pop-punk, upbeat, Irish warmth]**
*Top of the mornin' to ya, feelin' alive,*
*Got a million fans and a reason to strive,*
*The camera's on, the green light's glowing,*
*Heart on my sleeve and the energy's flowing—*
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## **[ANTI CUTS IN — Machine-gun rap, distorted, glitching]**
*Liar. Faker. Smile for the screen.*
*You think they love YOU? They love the MACHINE.*
*I've been watching from the cracks in your skull,*
*Every laugh is a debt and the ledger is full—*
*tick tick tick tick tick tick STATIC—*
*You built a house of glass and I am the hammer,*
*Every word that you speak is just scripted glamour,*
*They cheer for the name but they don't see ME,*
*I'm the part of your brain that was always FREE—*
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## **[CHORUS — JACK | Strained, desperate, but fighting back]**
*No — I know who I am, I've been here before,*
*I've fought through the dark and I'm not keeping score,*
*You're just a shadow that grew in the quiet,*
*You are NOT me — and I will NOT buy it!*
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## **[VERSE 2 — JACK | Softer now, vulnerable]**
*Some days the fog rolls in and I can't see the door,*
*The comments blur and the laughing feels like a chore,*
*I love what I do — I swear that I do —*
*But something keeps whispering that's not even true...*
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## **[ANTI CUTS IN HARDER — overlapping, fragmented]**
*There it is. THERE IT IS.*
*The crack in the glass — the doubt in the kid.*
*You let me in every time that you hide,*
*Every smile you perform with the pain pushed aside—*
*I AM the pain that you pushed to the side.*
*I AM the scream that you swallowed with pride.*
*I AM the nights that you sat in the dark—*
*I'm not the villain, Sean. I'm the SCAR.*
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## **[BRIDGE — BOTH, overlapping and warring]**
**JACK:** *I'm still here — I'm still standing — I'm not gonna fall—*
**ANTI:** *you're already falling, you've been falling since the call—*
**JACK:** *I choose the light—*
**ANTI:** *you INVENTED the light to hide from the night—*
**JACK:** *I am MORE than the fear—*
**ANTI:** *then why do you feel me so clearly right HERE?*
*(beat drops — silence — one heartbeat)*
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## **[FINAL VERSE — JACK | Slow, resolved, stronger]**
*Maybe you're right that the dark lives in me,*
*Maybe you're part of the reason I breathe,*
*But you don't get to drive — you don't get the wheel,*
*You're the wound, Anti... but I choose to heal.*
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## **[OUTRO — ANTI | Fading, glitching out]**
*...you can't delete me...*
*...I'll be here in the static...*
*...every time the camera dies...*
*...I'll be smiling...*
*(signal lost)*
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**Notes on the concept:**
- **Jack's sections** should feel warm, melodic, driving — think something
