[Intro] A dot Teller Eighteen years old No diploma. No direction Just a screen, a clock, and a city that never learned my name [Verse 1] Fifty K an hour just to stay invisible Eight hours behind glass, my worth stamped minimal Followed every script — the perfect blind disciple Cup noodles, chopsticks gripped — manga pages my only bible First check in her palms — I hadn’t clocked the debt just yet Love had me betting on forever with the wrong mindset That paycheck was gone before the ink could even dry Gave it all away — didn’t ask the reason why Eight hours clocked in, came home with nothing to show Just another body propping up their cash flow A ghost within the frame, a blur they looked right through They never called my name, I never asked them to [Pre-Hook] Wave Alpha vanished — last wall before the freefall Sat there curbside, no lifelines — felt my whole future get cut off Phone buzz vanished — every text hit a brick wall Old friends drew the lines — “street corner, unclean” — wrote me off [Chorus] Called it unfixable — they treated me like I was cursed That verdict cut deepest ’cause the cruelty was well-rehearsed Mama stepped in — no terms, just love unconditional That’s what made the ghost come back invincible [Verse 2] She pressed cash in my palm — no ledger, no receipt No questions, just quiet mercy, steady and discreet No lecture, no shame — not one judging peek She looked away and spared me what I couldn’t speak Drunk man dropped the bomb — “What makes YOU different?” That question broke my calm — and lodged in my chest, insistent Headphones on — silence had teeth, my whole room turned soundproof Karik’s voice cut through — first time “different” felt like proof Someone stood in this same dark and chose not to retreat The song didn’t save me — it handed me the receipt Proof the broken blueprint still had room for one last piece Meaning I was never broken — just a draft before release [Bridge] They gave me templates I kept trying to run their code Every crash wasn’t failure it proved one simple truth the system was never built for who I actually was Stop running their code on architecture they never understood I was never their product. Never was I’m the individual they missed in plain sight [Chorus] Called it unfixable — they treated me like I was cursed That verdict cut deepest ’cause the cruelty was well-rehearsed Mama stepped in — no terms, just love unconditional That’s what made the ghost come back invincible [Verse 3] Their templates never fit — designed to favor the similar So they stamped me unfit — now I write my own signature Individual spirit they could never delete or dilute Not starting over — this was always the real boot From unfixable bottom — I learned to turn wreckage into craft Every wall they raised got folded into my blueprint draft Every lock they thought could stop me only showed their loopholes Ghosts don’t vanish — we rewrite the scrolls They filed me under lost — I wrote myself back found They marked the signal lost — I was building underground Of every system too rigid to handle the change Not absent. Not erased. Just moving out of range [Outro] Filed under ghost Activated Ghost Protocol Crashes weren’t failure they were flaws of incompatible design She didn’t ask what happened Not a product Never was The one they missed in plain sight She just put it in my hand No terms. No ledger. Just faith No burden. No shame. Just something I could feel The only unconditional I’ve ever held Not starting over Starting
