[voice: capn — warm, human, slightly overwhelmed] [Verse 1] Star‑sailing through the static, thinking shadows meant attack, Every flicker on the hull felt like something pushing back. But my eyes… my eyes weren’t scared at all, They just showed me open space while my mind built up a wall. [sfx: computer alarm] (visual feed clear) [sfx: glitch] (cognitive distortion detected) “Captain, your eyes recorded clarity. Your mind generated fear.” [Chorus] I see the truth, but my mind don’t trust it, I feel the light, but my thoughts still rush it. [sfx: soft beep] (reality equals input) [sfx: soft beep] (fear equals interpretation) Every time I look, the world is honest… but the story in my head keeps lyin’ to me. [Verse 2] I thought the universe was hostile, but that was noise inside my skull, The stars weren’t closing in on me — it was me who felt too full. My eyes saw open freedom, my mind saw a cage, I was living in predictions, not the moment on the page. [sfx: data pulse] (reframe initiating) “Captain… you are living in the prediction, not the world.” [Bridge] So what’s real? The thing I see… or the thing I *think* I see? [sfx: glitch] (both) [sfx: glitch] (neither) [sfx: glitch] (truth is the difference) …I been fighting ghosts I invented. [Final Chorus] My eyes see the truth, and now I trust it, My mind still talks, but I don’t let it rush in. [sfx: computer alarm] (visual feed clear) [sfx: soft beep] (cognitive feed optional) The universe didn’t change… I just finally saw it. [Outro] Sometimes the world is simple. It’s the mind that makes it loud. But if you breathe… and look… you’ll see the truth was always there.
