Paper Crown, Steel Throne

Verse 1)

Waking up to the same perfect digital hum

Gleaming screens reflecting the endless crowd, blind and numb

Every step mapped out in a clever design

A painted-on smile, while inside I'm losing my mind

Certain that this world is just mirrors and smoke

Dancing to a script written before I even spoke.

Chorus

Living under the control of illusion, trapped in a glass dome

Thinking that you choose, but it's just a game you call home

A velvet cage, a false freedom, a sense of place

Reaching for the edge, but I can't find where fear leaves a trace.

Verse 2

Promises from neon posters and manufactured dreams

Getting lost in a web of directed scenes

I search for a spark, just to feel something real

Before I fall back asleep, wearing a crown made of paper and steel.

Chorus

Living under the control of illusion, trapped in a glass dome

Thinking that you choose, but it's just a game you call home

A velvet cage, a false freedom, a sense of place

Reaching for the edge, but I can't find where fear leaves a

Verse 3

Step past the frame where the picture was painted

Count every wall that they swore was a sky

The drums in my chest are a language they hated

So I answer the call with a battle-cry

(Go, go, go)

Maps on the ceiling are curling and burning

I chew through the wire that hums in my jaw

A shaman in sneakers, no lesson, no learning

I scratch out the symbol and break every law

Verse 4

Scratch, cut, spin it back

I'm the needle on the wax, I'm the crack in the track

Rat-tat on the glass like a woodpecker's knock

Who's the puppet when the strings all rot

(Who's the puppet)

Chop, flip, sample the scream

Turn the mirror to a door, let it bleed through the seam

Bagpipes wailing like a war on the hill

Every ghost in the machine getting drilled, drilled, drilled

Chorus

Living under the control of illusion, trapped in a glass dome

Thinking that you choose, but it's just a game you call home

A velvet cage, a false freedom, a sense of place

Reaching for the edge, and I finally found where fear leaves a trace

(Found it, found it)

Drop

Shatter, shatter, shatter the dome

Shatter, shatter, you're not alone

Break it, break it, let it all fall

Nothing left to hold you at all

(Let it fall)

Verse 5

Now the sky is a bruise and it's beautiful

Every lie that I swallowed is spitting back out

They built me a throne out of paper and steel

So I lit it and danced in the smoke of the doubt

(Doubt, doubt)

Faster than the fear that was feeding me

Nightcore heart in a techno machine

I was a sleeper, a soldier, a scene

Now I'm the reason the static goes clean

Bridge 2

If the truth is a blade, then I'll hold it myself

Cut the wire from my wrist to the crown of my head

Every voice that they planted is mine now to sell

And I'm selling it back to the living instead

(Instead, instead)

Outro

No more control...

No more illusion...

Just the sound of my own hands

Building something new

(New, new, new)