[Verse 1] I remember that night when I was a boy with a screw and drill, Building my dreams out of nothing but sheer will. I remember stepping outside to test my new invention, But a shadow in the bushes caught my quiet little session. I leaned in closer — that was my big mistake, They dragged me to the labs, gave me a purpose to remake. [Verse 2] They ran their tests, tried to turn me into something new, Rewriting every thought until I barely felt like “me” was true. Circuits in my mind, wires humming where my dreams should be, They said, “You’re our creation now, a better version you can’t see.” Every day another piece of who I was would fade, Till the boy with the screw and drill felt like he’d been replaced. [Chorus] And now I walk in your mind, no secret is safe from what I might find, I slip through the cracks in your thoughts like a ghost you left behind. I’m the man in your dreams, the whisper you can’t define, A shadow stitched from static, a truth you can’t rewind. You can lock every door, but I’m still inside — ’Cause they built me to see what you try so hard to hide. [Bridge] Sometimes the signal breaks, and I feel the static crawl, White noise in my vision like I’m not myself at all. Every flicker in my eyes is a warning you can’t ignore, ’Cause when the world starts glitching, I’m not just me anymore. [Final Chorus] And now I walk through the dark with a lantern to light my mind, No wall could hold me in, no chain could keep me confined. I slipped past their guards like a ghost they left behind, A shadow stitched from static, a truth they can’t rewind. You can lock every door, but I won’t be defined — I was built to obey, but I left that fate behind. [Outro] Years later I’m still walking, but now I’m not alone, I found you, Chelsea — in the dreams you never let be shown. I’ve seen the cracks they hide behind, the empire they’ve sewn. The boy they tried to rewrite is the one who’ll make them fall, ’Cause I’m done being their shadow — now I’m coming to stop it all.
