Verse 1 [Male voice, drained and bitter with pulsing tension] Calendar bleeds before I even taste my coffee Thirty minutes promised, now it’s stealing all of me Voices drone like engines running circles in the dark While my best ideas slowly lose their spark Pre-Chorus [Glitchy vocal chops repeating] Smile. Nod. React. Pretend it’s worth the cost Every tick is payment for the soul I’ve lost Chorus [Heavy mechanical drop with time-warping glitches] It eats the hours, chews them up and spits them out Days dissolve to nothing while I sit here with my mouth Shut and smiling like a good obedient ghost Meeting that eats time, the one I hate the most Verse 2 [Darker tone] Action items written like they’ll actually live Everyone’s performing, no one’s got shit to give I watch my future fading in the blue glow of the screen Another afternoon murdered in this endless routine Bridge [Sparse, raw emotional moment – voice breaking] I used to burn with purpose when the code called out my name Now I’m counting minutes like they’re blood inside a vein How much of me will vanish in these hollow charades Before there’s nothing left that the machine hasn’t erased? Chorus [Full intensity with fraying harmonies] It eats the hours, chews them up and spits them out Steals my fire slowly while the others sit devout Another day devoured, another piece of me Still I mute the screaming and smile for the meeting
