[VERSE 1 - EXTERNAL] Narrow lens, he got the thing you want Promotion, recognition, he won't stop So you mock his ambition, call it a front Make it small what you're starving for, can't See the wanting, see the cage You built it yourself on the page [VERSE 1 - CONSCIENCE] Wide lens, can you see it yet? The pattern repeating, your debt You wanted it too, the trap is set The mocking is the cage you've met The mechanism spinning round You're the one who built this ground [VERSE 2 - EXTERNAL] Narrow lens, she bought the house, the life Calls it her dream, her victory, her prize So you call it pretentious, twist the knife Question her taste, diminish what you prize Hide your own hunger in the scorn Make her small so you're not torn [VERSE 2 - CONSCIENCE] Wide lens, when will you see? The taking and the devouring, the spree You consume what shines in her with glee Then wonder why you're empty, why you're free The pattern is a spiral down You're wearing your own crown [MID INSTRUMENTAL SOLO] [VERSE 3 - EXTERNAL] Narrow lens, he's with someone he loves Genuine, real, he fits like a glove So you mock his softness, push and shove Question his manhood, rise above Hide your longing in the cruelty Make him small so you feel free [VERSE 3 - CONSCIENCE] Wide lens, when do you see? When you catch yourself taking, when you're free To realize you're the one with the key Building the narrow view desperately You're starving yourself with your own sight Can't escape your own plight [VERSE 4 - EXTERNAL] Narrow lens, I see it in everyone Crystal vision for their blindness, it's done Completely clear till it becomes mine, none I see their patterns but I'm the one Running the same machine The blindest person I've seen [VERSE 4 - CONSCIENCE] Wide lens, that's the trap The seeing without seeing, the gap The clarity that changes nothing, collapse You're watching yourself do it, no map The mechanism exposed but never stopped That's the price you've bought [BIG FINAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO] [OUTRO - BOTH VOICES LAYERED] Narrow lens, wide lens Narrow lens, wide lens The loop repeating, the cage Seeing it everywhere, your stage Blind to your own, the rage The mechanism, the cage Exposed but never changed Trapped in the same exchange
