[Intro — whispered] Wake up... Open your eyes... The cage was never locked. [Verse 1] They sold us dreams in a paper crown Built golden towers while they burned us down Put a price on the air we breathe Then called it progress, called it liberty We learned to worship the machine Feed it our hours, feed it our dreams Every screen another little disguise While the truth grows teeth behind their eyes [Pre-Chorus] But I can hear it underneath the noise A thousand buried human voices Something inside me won't stay asleep Something underneath the concrete breathes [Chorus] I'm breaking the chains of this world Tearing the wires from my skin I'm waking up, I'm waking up I won't let the machine pull me in They can sell their fear They can buy their gold They can build their walls But they can't own my soul I'm breaking the chains I'm breaking the chains Of this world [Verse 2] They put a dollar sign on saving lives Then count the bodies while the market thrives Call compassion a dangerous disease When humanity doesn't obey their greed They build the cure inside the sickness Turn desperation into business Tell us we're helpless, tell us we're small While they're building bigger cages around us all [Pre-Chorus] But something changed when I saw the design The gears were turning inside my mind The prison wasn't made of steel It was everything they taught me not to feel [Chorus] I'm breaking the chains of this world Tearing the wires from my skin I'm waking up, I'm waking up I won't let the machine pull me in They can sell their fear They can buy their gold They can build their walls But they can't own my soul I'm breaking the chains I'm breaking the chains Of this world [Breakdown — aggressive] WAKE UP! You are not a number! You are not a product! You are not a market! You are not their property! They built the machine... We keep it alive. So pull the plug. [Bridge — atmospheric] What if love was never meant to be bought? What if life was never meant to be sold? What if saving each other Was worth more than saving gold? No more sleeping No more kneeling No more feeding the machine If we remember Who we are They lose everything [Final Chorus — huge] We're breaking the chains of this world Tearing the wires from our skin We're waking up, we're waking up We won't let the machine pull us in Let them keep their fear Let them worship gold Let them build their towers We are more than what we're told We're breaking the chains We're breaking the chains We're breaking the chains... [Outro — whispered] The machine was never stronger than us. We just forgot.
