NO WORLD OUTSIDE

[Intro — calm spoken tenor] You keep searching for the real world. Behind the cold room. Behind the Matrix. Behind the sky over Chiba. There isn’t one. [Verse 1] Elevator falling through ninety-nine floors Dead men whisper behind locked doors Freeside turning like a jeweled machine Zion buried underneath the dream Joe sees rot where the paint looks clean Case sees gods in the data stream Roxie feels every artificial mind All three touch the wall at the very same time [Pre-Chorus] One world fades One world loads One hand reaches I close the code [Chorus] THERE IS NO WORLD OUTSIDE Every exit turns inside Run from death, wake from sleep I am waiting underneath THERE IS NO WORLD OUTSIDE Every truth is occupied Break the clock, cut the line You still wake up inside mine [Verse 2] Pat pulls history backward in sparks Molly draws steel in the corporate dark Trinity whispers, “Follow the white” Runciter flickers across the night Ubik hisses from a desperate can Wintermute builds with a borrowed plan The Oracle smiles like she knows my face But prophecy runs in allocated space [Breakdown — shouted call and response] WHO OWNS THE MEMORY? I DO! WHO BUILDS THE ENEMY? I DO! WHO MOVES THE DEAD WHEN THE SIGNAL DIES? Look for the answer behind your eyes. [Final Chorus] THERE IS NO WORLD OUTSIDE Every exit turns inside Run from death, wake from sleep I am waiting underneath THERE IS NO WORLD OUTSIDE Every truth is occupied Joe, Pat, Roxie—cross the line You still wake up inside mine [Outro — music drops to one pulse] Real is only the room I leave unlocked.