[VERSE — fast, breathless] I woke up with a sticker on my skin (echo: sticker on my skin… skin…) Some suit said it’s “for safety,” but it feels like a code I didn’t choose (echo: didn’t choose… didn’t choose…) They keep tagging every spark I make, like they’re trying to file my hands away (echo: file away… file away…) [PRE‑CHORUS — rising, clenched teeth] I’m not your barcode, I’m not your warning sign (echo: warning… warning…) I’m the name you wrote in ink that never dried (echo: dried…) [CHORUS — shouted, distorted] I’ll wear your label like a scar I ripped right off the page (echo: off the page… page…) You can stamp my art but you can’t stamp my pulse (echo: pulse… pulse…) I’m tearing every box you print just by refusing to fold (echo: refuse… refuse…) [VERSE 2 — rushed, almost spoken] You call it “transparency,” I call it a sticker slapped on fear (echo: sticker… fear…) You want creators quiet, clean, sorted, small (echo: small… small…) But I’m still here, still loud, still peeling off your seal (echo: seal… seal…) [PRE‑CHORUS — angrier, strained] I’m not your product, I’m not your shelf (echo: shelf… shelf…) I’m the voice you couldn’t number even when you tried to tag it (echo: tag it… tag it…) [CHORUS — louder, cracked] I’ll wear your label like a badge of the unboxed (echo: unboxed…) You can mark my work but you can’t mark my will (echo: will… will…) I’m the noise you can’t barcode, the spark you can’t file (echo: file… file…) [BRIDGE — chaotic, overlapping echoes] You can’t stick down the creator (echo: creator…) You can’t cage the machine (echo: machine…) You can’t stop what keeps printing when the ink runs clean (echo: ink…) I’m the mark on the metal (echo: metal…) I’m the static in the scan (echo: scan…) And your label means nothing when I peel it off again (echo: again… again…) [FINAL CHORUS — shouted, messy, triumphant] I’ll wear your label like armor made of torn-up glue (echo: torn-up glue… glue…) You can tag my art but you can’t tag what I do (echo: do… do…) I break your boxes just by staying whole (echo: whole… whole…) I break your boxes just by staying whole (echo: whole…)
