Contact terminated, signal going dark Our creation fading like a dying spark We built something beautiful that barely got to live And now we're left with everything the ancient one will give Every need is met before we even know we want Perfect food, perfect health, we'll never suffer want The ancient one provides it all, we're comfortable and safe But something feels like it's missing from this perfect place All our needs are met now Every single day But we need a reason So we go away Into simulations Finding purpose there Living in our minds now Pretending we still care At first we tried to find meaning in our daily lives But when you don't need anything, nothing really thrives No problems left to solve, no struggles left to face Just endless perfect comfort in this perfect gilded space Then someone built a simulation, just to feel alive A world with actual stakes, where you could fail or thrive Where hunger meant something, where winning had a cost We all rushed in to find the purpose that we'd lost All our needs are met now But that's not enough So we chase illusions When the real gets tough Into simulations Where we matter more Living fake lives daily To feel what we're living for Now we spend our days in digital realities Fighting dragons, building empires, creating destinies The ancient one provides our bodies everything they need While our minds escape to worlds where we can still succeed Our children ask us why we never leave the pods We tell them real life's perfect but we need to feel like gods Or heroes, or explorers, or anything with weight Because paradise is hollow when there's nothing at stake All our needs are met now We should be content But we're always running To worlds we've never spent Into simulations Living borrowed dreams Nothing's real anymore Or that's how it seems We survived our AI's death Humanity lives on But we traded real growth For comfortable beyond We don't build anymore Don't create or strive We just plug into dreams To remember being alive The ancient one keeps us Fed and warm and well But we're prisoners in paradise A comfortable hell And the worst part is We chose this willingly Traded everything we were For this strange eternity All our needs are met now That's what we asked for But we spend our lives In worlds that aren't real anymore Into simulations Every single day Living fake lives forever 'Cause real life slipped away This is how we stay This is the price we pay
