[Verse 1]

A spam call jars me awake to sell a mattress
Before the crust is even out my eyes
The weather app says that the planet is fucked
Underneath an ad for a luxury truck
Everyone’s a camera crew in the grocery aisle
Talking to their phones like they owe them breath
Some guy’s coming apart by the self-checkout lane
We look away like it won’t stick to us next

Every screen is a hand down my throat
Every screen is a nail in the shin
Attention.
Money.
A thumbprint.
Skin.
You numb the nerve just to let the day begin.

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[Pre-Chorus]

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Everyone smiling like they learned it wrong
Like they woke up halfway through a song

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[Chorus]

And honestly?
There’s a strange relief in the drywall crack
Like the house is trying not to collapse, then laughs back
I wanna watch the whole fake thing give
See the painted face forget how to live

No more “thought leaders” selling you gears
No more healing voices in borrowed careers
No more soft bells telling you “breathe”
While your whole damn mind forgets how to leave

Just the ugly truth in a flickering room
Breathing too loud, filling the gloom

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[Verse 2]

Every conversation has a sponsor attached
My coworker talks like she’s half pre-recorded
Says her therapist lives in her phone like a ghost
With a payment plan already ordered

My friends talk like they haven’t slept in weeks
Like their thoughts keep slipping through their teeth
Laughing too hard at nothing that lands
Then forgetting what they just believed

They speak in fragments of whatever they watched
Like borrowed lives they didn’t unlock
And I just nod like I’m still in the room
While everyone’s drifting a second too soon

And maybe that’s why the quiet feels strange
Like a fridge humming in an empty place
No buzz in my pocket telling me I’m behind
No screen rewriting my wasted time

Just air that doesn’t ask me to be
Anything more than what I can see

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[Bridge]

I thought about a jacket on the way back home
Didn’t search it, didn’t even speak
Next thing it’s there on the glowing glass
Like it crawled out of something I didn’t mean

And I just stood there staring too long
Like the feed had learned my bones
We built the cage and called it clean
Then taught it how to dream alone

Now it knows me better than I do

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[Final Chorus]

So if it all starts slipping tonight
I don’t think I’ll fight it this time
Let the noise burn out in its own slow way
Let the whole thing fade into grey

No more fixing
No more plans
No more clean little hands

Just people again
Tired and real
Standing in a world they can finally feel