[Verse 1] Four white corners Clock crawls sideways on the wall Ceiling stain looks like a doorway I trace it till I fall Air feels heavy Like it knows my middle name Drink my coffee out this chipped blue cup Just to prove I haven’t changed [Chorus] Is this a life or a sentence? Pacing the cage in my head Breathing in circles Lying awake in this borrowed bed If I’m the guard and the prisoner Shaking the bars that I built Is there a key in the mirror Or just a face full of guilt? [Verse 2] Phone screen flickers Endless faces, endless scroll Everyone shouting they’re alive out there I’m just echo in a hole Laugh at nothing So it doesn’t laugh at me Stack my days like paper boxes Label them “you’re free” [Chorus] Is this a life or a sentence? Pacing the cage in my head Breathing in circles Lying awake in this borrowed bed If I’m the guard and the prisoner Shaking the bars that I built Is there a key in the mirror Or just a face full of guilt? [Bridge] What if the door Has always been open a crack What if the weight Is just me on my own back If I step out Will the world even bend? Or is the prison The fear that it might end? [Chorus] Is this a life or a sentence? Pacing the cage in my head Breathing in circles Lying awake in this borrowed bed If I’m the guard and the prisoner Shaking the bars that I built Maybe the key’s in the mirror Under the shame and the silt [Chorus] Is this a life or a sentence? Pacing the cage in my head Breathing in circles Lying awake in this borrowed bed I am the guard and the prisoner Shaking the bars that I built But There isn’t a key in the mirror just a face full of guilt.
