Gold-Plated Trophies

Intro

Yeah...

Watch the screen glow.

Watch it fade to black.

Neon turns to shadows.

Everybody wants a piece...

Till you got nothing left.

Let's go.

Verse 1

Retro digital dash, chasing ghosts for the cash

Four-on-the-floor while you're praying for the numbers to crash

Flashing marquee, you were dying to be seen

Sold a piece of your soul just to feed the machine

Leather seats, shoulder pads, said the world was yours

Now you're staring at a screen while nobody knocks doors

Empty notifications, running clean out of time

Got a thousand little hearts but you're losing your mind

Synthesizer crying underneath the neon lights

Vultures circle overhead when the numbers ain't right

You traded real loyalty for a temporary view

Everybody loved the image... nobody loved you

Pre-Chorus

You built it up

Higher and higher

Till the lights burned out

Now you're standing in the smoke

Trying to figure it out

CHORUS

Chasing the clout, now the battery's dead

Living for the words that they put in your head

Dance floor empty, neon blown

Million requests but you're sleeping alone

Strobe light flickers, then dies

Caught in the web of your digital lies

Chasing the clout turned your kingdom to dust

Gold-plated trophies starting to rust

Clout... clout...

Everybody wants the crown

Clout... clout...

Till the whole thing comes crashing down

Verse 2

Bassline cold and the story's already told

Bought yourself a stadium just to watch yourself get sold

Walking through the fog underneath the stage lights

Cyber-world cage, living somebody else's life

Vintage shoulder pads, heartbreak in the seams

You thought you rode the wave, got swallowed by the stream

Midnight they adore you, morning they forget

Another trending name, another silhouette

Drum machine beating like a countdown clock

Everything you faked eventually comes unlocked

You were chasing every number, every follower, every flash

Now the algorithm owns you and it's taking everything back

Pre-Chorus

You built it up

Higher and higher

Till the lights burned out

Now you're standing in the smoke

Trying to figure it out

CHORUS

Chasing the clout, now the battery's dead

Living for the words that they put in your head

Dance floor empty, neon blown

Million requests but you're sleeping alone

Strobe light flickers, then dies

Caught in the web of your digital lies

Chasing the clout turned your kingdom to dust

Gold-plated trophies starting to rust

Clout... clout...

Everybody wants the crown

Clout... clout...

Till the whole thing comes crashing down

BRIDGE

You wanted the lights

You wanted the fame

You wanted everybody

To remember your name

But when the music stops

And the crowd disappears

Who are you

When nobody's here

Nobody

FINAL CHORUS

Chasing the clout, now the battery's dead

Living for the words that they put in your head

Dance floor empty, neon blown

Million requests but you're sleeping alone

Strobe light flickers, then dies

Caught in the web of your digital lies

Chasing the clout turned your kingdom to dust

All that glitter couldn't cover the rust

You had the crown

You had the lights

You had the whole world watching

But you lost your life

OUTRO

Just a pixel in the dark

No flame

Just a dying spark

Screen goes black

Crowd goes home

Power down

It's over