(Tempo: Fast, furious, relentless / Key: A Minor / Vibe: Pure, shouted defiance, raw acoustic attack.) (Intro - Acoustic Guitar, fast, hard downstrokes. The strumming is aggressive and slightly sloppy. The guitar quickly accelerates.) (Am) (G) (C) (E) (Am) (G) (C) (E) (Verse 1 - Delivered quickly, with barely contained anger.) (Am) You handed me the rule book, the pre-written script (G) Told me where to stand, where to laugh, where to zip my lip (C) Said, "This is the system, the ladder, the way to succeed" (E) But every single step just planted a seed of need! (Am) You want me to function, be a neat little cog (G) Trapped in your machine, sinking down in the fog (C) Sign on the dotted line, collect the meager pay (E) And swallow the poison that kills the light of the day! (Pre-Chorus - Building intensity, the vocal tone shifts to a strained shout.) (C) I can't breathe in this box, the walls are too thick (G) Every instruction just makes me sick! (Am) You drew the lines for me, straight and true (E) But I'm taking the razor and cutting through! (Chorus - Screamo vocals—loud, raw, desperate screams. The guitar is played as hard and fast as possible.) (Am) (G) (C) (E) (SCREAMED): I AM NOT YOUR ALGORITHM OF ZERO! (Am) (G) (C) (E) I WILL NOT BE THE FLAWLESS, FAKE HERO! (Am) (G) This is the STATIC on your perfect LINE! (C) (E) This broken compass is FINALLY MINE! (Am) (G) Tear up the contract! BREAK THE MOLD! (C) (E) I'm the story that won't be TOLD! (Verse 2 - Returns to the fast, angry cadence.) (Am) Every should and every must is a chain on my feet (G) Walking this predictable, crowded, dead-end street (C) You called it order, I called it control and fear (E) Forcing the narrative until the picture is clear (Am) That obedience is silence, and silence is death of the will (G) So I'm choosing the fire, standing perfectly still on the hill (C) While your world collapses, built on the dust of the lie (E) I'll watch it burn down beneath this open, cold sky! (Pre-Chorus - Building back to the peak.) (C) I can't breathe in this box, the walls are too thick (G) Every instruction just makes me sick! (Am) You drew the lines for me, straight and true (E) But I'm taking the razor and cutting through! (Chorus - Final, maximal screaming intensity.) (Am) (G) (C) (E) (SCREAMED): I AM NOT YOUR ALGORITHM OF ZERO! (Am) (G) (C) (E) I WILL NOT BE THE FLAWLESS, FAKE HERO! (Am) (G) This is the STATIC on your perfect LINE! (C) (E) This broken compass is FINALLY MINE! (Am) (G) Tear up the contract! BREAK THE MOLD! (C) (E) I'm the story that won't be TOLD! (Bridge - The guitar slows and drops in volume for two measures, creating a sudden, jarring break. The vocal is a raw, strained whisper, followed by a final, desperate scream.) (C) (Whispered): You want me to play... you want me to stay... (G) In the shadows you cast every day... (E) (SCREAMED): I CHOOSE THE WILD! I CHOOSE THE UNKNOWN! I CHOOSE TO BE ALONE! (Outro - The guitar returns to the fast, aggressive strumming, fading out rapidly.) (Am) (G) (C) (E) (Am) (G) (C) (E) (A final, sharp, heavily accented hit on the Am chord.)
