[Intro – Spoken Duet] [Voice 1 – Whispered] They said: "Pray harder." "Take the pills." [Voice 2 – Whispered] “Take some more.” "Talk to someone." [Both] But I did. I did all of it. [Verse 1 – Voice 1] And all I found were cages, Cages with velvet words, Cages with padded walls meant to silence what never needed silencing. [Verse 2 – Voice 2] They gave me crosses and catechisms, told me, “Truth” came wrapped in robes— but all I saw were men who feared what burned in me. [Pre-Chorus – Both] They told me I was wrong for asking, wrong for knowing, wrong for feeling like an open nerve in a numb world. [Chorus – Duet] You call me broken, but I’ve felt everything. While you walk past pain like fog, I breathe it in. I don’t get the joke— I am the punchline. But I burn. I burn. [Verse 3 – Voice 2] So, I took the pills. “Stabilize,” they said. "Balance the brain." But never the price. [Verse 4 – Voice 1] The slow decay of self, Till even autopilot bailed with a scream and a parachute into oblivion. [Bridge – Both, Dramatic Swell] Then came therapy— the great hope. But even there I played the game. The Masking Game. The Please-Like-Me Game. The Don’t-Scare-The-Normal Game. [Break – Operatic Refrain] [Voice 1] I’ve worn the mask so long, it’s grown teeth. It bites when I try to take it off. [Voice 2] I don’t know who I am without it. [Chorus – Duet, Stronger] You call me broken, but I’ve felt everything. While you walk past pain like fog, I breathe it in. I don’t get the joke— I am the punchline. But I burn. I burn. [Verse 5 – Voice 1] That fire you see in me? That’s not defiance. That’s a lifetime of camouflage that never worked. [Verse 6 – Voice 2] Because I was never built to blend in. I was made to burn. [Finale – Duet Ascension] When the last glass tower falls, when the polite world crumbles— We rise. The misunderstood. The too-much-feelers. The misfits with fractured halos. The neurodivergent kings and queens. [Chorus – Final Power Duet] You call me broken, but I’ve felt everything. While you walk past pain like fog, I breathe it in. I don’t get the joke— I am the punchline. But I burn. Now— We rule. [Outro – [Fade Out and End]] Not with fear— with flame. And the world will finally burn with us.
