Tick. Tock. Wake up. Go to work. Be angry. Sleep. Tick. Tock. Smile when they tell you. Bleed when they tell you. It’s not even my script. Why am I reading the lines? Am I even awake? Are you? Walking through the city but I feel like I'm a ghost Everybody’s moving but they're tethered to a post Living in a loop, yeah, we do it out of habit Chasing after cheese like an engineered rabbit They tell me I should panic, so I panic on demand! They tell me I should hate, so I draw it in the sand! I’m carrying the trauma from a past I didn't choose I'm wearing all these shoes, but they give me the blues It’s a broadcast, playing on the screen of my mind And I’m sitting in the theater, totally blind! I'm confusing the projector for the actual sky I'm living out a program, and I don't even know why! I look at my reactions and I think they are my own But I’m just a little drone on a designated throne Playing back the files that were downloaded in youth Accepting the illusion and rejecting all the truth! Wait a minute, wait a minute, whose voice is that? Telling me I’m nothing, telling me I’m falling flat? That’s not me! That’s the echo of the pain! That’s the rust on the tracks of the train! I’m asleep at the wheel of a runaway car! Wake up! Wake up from the hypnosis! Swallowing the lies in a lethal little dosage! We’re walking in a trance, yeah, we’re living in a dream Following the current as we’re floating down the stream! The anxiety is rented! The panic isn't mine! I’m severing the cord, I am cutting off the line! Open up your eyes! Look at what you really are! You’re not the burning building, you’re the one who sees the scar! Look at the conditioning, look at the routine Running like a cog in a cynical machine Somebody insulted me when I was only ten And I’ve been playing back the tape again and again It’s a spell, it’s a hex, it’s a mesmerizing trick And the dizzying illusion is making me sick I’ve been identifying with the terror and the dread Thinking all these ugly thoughts are originating in my head! But they’re planted! Seeds in the dirt of the mind! Grown in the dark while I’m falling behind! Society is built on keeping everybody stressed If you’re peaceful and you’re quiet then you fail the little test They want you to react, yeah they want you in a rage Because an angry little bird never rattles on the cage! I've been looking at the mirror like the mirror is the enemy Draining my energy, drinking the venom, the recipe given to me by the pedigree Everybody telling me I gotta be stressed out, gotta be depressed now Living in a world where the trauma is a flex now! I don't wanna play the game, I don't wanna be a pawn I don't wanna be a shadow waiting for the break of dawn Every single trigger is a finger on a gun If I never pull the trigger then the battle isn't won! I am not my thoughts! I am not my little fears! I am not the culmination of my miserable years! I am the observer in the center of the storm Watching all the chaos trying desperately to form! Step back. Look at the screen. You are not the movie. You are the one watching the movie. Breathe in. Don't react. Break the spell. Wake up! Wake up from the hypnosis! Swallowing the lies in a lethal little dosage! We’re walking in a trance, yeah, we’re living in a dream Following the current as we’re floating down the stream! The anxiety is rented! The panic isn't mine! I’m severing the cord, I am cutting off the line! Open up your eyes! Look at what you really are! You’re not the burning building, you’re the one who sees the scar! I see it now. I’m awake. The script is burning. I can see the strings they used to pull. I'm stepping out of the theater. Tick. Tock. The clock is broken. Yeah. I'm finally awake.
