PERCEPTION THROUGH THE LENS OF THE END [Intro – Spoken] Yeah... Everybody wants forever until forever starts looking back. Everybody wants answers until the mirror asks the questions. So tell me— If the ending was written across the sky tonight... Would you finally start living? --- [Verse 1] I woke up with a head full of static and a chest full of storms, Trying to patch up the holes while the world's being torn. Everybody chasing shadows in a digital maze, Selling pieces of their soul for a couple seconds of praise. I've been counting every scar like a map to the grave, Every lesson that I learned from the mistakes that I made. Looking back through the smoke, through the ash, through the fire, Everything I thought I needed was a temporary desire. I was running from silence, now I'm begging it to stay, 'Cause the noise in my head keeps getting louder every day. Every clock on the wall got its hands like knives, Carving little pieces out of all our lives. Tell me what you're gonna do when the curtain comes down, When the kings lose their crowns and the saints all drown? When the money and the fame and the status all fade, What's left of the person underneath what you made? --- [Pre-Chorus] I can hear the future breathing down my neck, Like a ghost in the hallway collecting debts. Every step, every regret, every promise I kept— Coming back like a flood I can never forget. --- [Chorus] Through the lens of the end I can finally see, All the chains that I wore weren't attached to me. I was building my prison with invisible walls, Now I'm watching them break as the empire falls. Whoa-oh-oh! Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn tonight! Whoa-oh-oh! I ain't running from the dark, I'm becoming the light! Through the lens of the end, every fear disappears, Every lie that I believed evaporates here. If tomorrow never comes, I got nothing to defend— I found life through the lens... Through the lens of the end. --- [Verse 2] Everybody wants purpose, everybody wants truth, But nobody wants to stare at the edge of the roof. Nobody wants to ask why they're alive at all, Until they're flat on their back with their back to the wall. I seen angels in ambulances, devils in suits, Seen prayers hit the ceiling while the suffering grew. Seen beautiful people break under the weight, And broken people somehow find a reason to stay. Now the mirror says, "Look at the person you've been." Every victory, every vice, every loss, every sin. And the reflection ain't perfect, but at least it's real, Not a mask made of plastic trying not to feel. Every heartbeat's a countdown, every breath is a loan, Every road that we travel eventually goes home. So why am I afraid of the inevitable truth? The end was always coming since the day of my youth. --- [Rap Section] Tick-tock, tick-tock, hear the pendulum swing, Everybody wants forever but forever ain't a thing. It's a dream in a glass that was destined to crack, And the harder that you hold it, the less you get back. I'm done trying to outrun the reaper in my head, Done acting like tomorrow's guaranteed instead. Got my feet in the dirt and my eyes on the sky, If I'm born just to die then I'm living before I die. I got ghosts in the rearview, flames in the past, But the wounds that I carry don't determine my path. Every scar's just proof that I survived the attack, A reminder every setback can become a comeback. So bring the thunder, bring the chaos, bring the pain and the rain, Bring the voices in the darkness screaming my name. I've been through the abyss and came back with a spark, Now I'm setting fire to the fear in my heart. --- [Breakdown] TEAR IT DOWN! All the walls! All the lies! All the masks! All disguises! TEAR IT DOWN! All the fear! All the shame! All the chains! Burn the name! TEAR IT DOWN! If the ending is certain— Then what are we waiting for?! --- [Heavy Chorus] Through the lens of the end I can finally breathe, Every wound that I carried starts to loosen its teeth. I was buried alive underneath my own doubt, Now the truth is a fire and it's dragging me out. Whoa-oh-oh! Watch the heavens split apart tonight! Whoa-oh-oh! I was lost in the dark, now I'm finding sight! Through the lens of the end every second's a gift, Every crack in my soul gives the light a way in. If the world ends tomorrow, I won't pretend— I found peace through the lens... Through the lens of the end. --- [Bridge] Maybe we're all just sparks in a cosmic sea, Tiny flashes of wonder in eternity. Maybe meaning isn't something waiting to be found, Maybe meaning is the sound we make before we're underground. Maybe love is the answer. Maybe love is the test. Maybe all that really matters Is who we were at our best. --- [Final Chorus] Through the lens of the end I can finally see, Life was never about forever—it was about being free. About holding the moment while it's still in your hands, About dancing with the storm instead of making demands. Whoa-oh-oh!
