[Verse 1] Another day of pleasant waves and empty smiles Walking through the motions for miles and miles Everyone knows my face but not my name Playing the same old social game Something's buffering in my head Why does every word feel dead? My voice beyond these hollow words Like I'm stuck in someone else's story [Chorus] I'm just a background character in everyone's scene Polite conversations that don't mean anything They see me, they greet me, then I disappear A glitch in the system that's becoming too clear [Static breaks] Loading, buffering, something's not right I'm fading away in broad dayligh-igh-igh-ight [Verse 2] Checkout clerk calls me by the wrong name Because we're strangers, all the same Loading bar inside my chest Failing every c-c-connection test Something's buffering in my head Running through scripts leave me feeling dead Surface level, surface deep These are the connections that I keep [Chorus] I'm just a background character in everyone's scene Polite conversations that don't mean anything They see me, they greet me, then I disappear A glitch in the system that's becoming too clear [Audio dropout] Loading, buffering, something's not right I'm fading away in broad day-daylight [Bridge - Heavy distortion and vocal layering] The world passes by leaving me unseen As I coast through life mourning who I've never bean I'm pleasant enough for them to say hello But not close enough for them to get to know That something's broken deep inside Behind this mask I've learned to hide-ide [Broken voice] Scripts-repeating-day-by-day [Corrupted] While-my-real-self-fades-away [Verse 3] Years of small talk, years of g-g-gr-grind But the glitch is spreading through my mind Showing me what I'll never find No one messages me, I realize I'm background music to their lives While inside, something d-d-d-d-dd-dies [Bridge - Heavy distortion and vocal layering] [Multiple voices overlapping] System-error-can't-connect [Static surge] Years of being indirect [Clear desperate voice] I want to matter somewhere [Corrupted] But-my-code-is-bu-bu-bu-bu-bugggy-there [Chorus] I'm just a background character in everyone's scene Polite conversations that don't mean a-anything They see me, they greet me, then I disappear A glitch in the system that's becoming too clear [Digital stutter] Loading, buffering, something's not right I'm fading away in broad dayligh-igh-igh-ight [Outro] The realization hits my mind I'm the NPC in this grand design And this broken heart is mine [Voice breaks into digital fragments] Glitch-ing... glitch-ing... can't reset The loneliness I can't forget [Static fade] [END]
