# THE FALSE PARADISE **LOKIWIZZ** [VERSE 1] Six in the morning, world's dead on arrival, A pocket-sized apocalypse, served up with a smile. Luxury unboxed while a hungry kid waits, Everybody wants heaven with a premium rate. I can trace every wire from the port to the plate, Follow money through the maze till it circles back to fate. I know who's pulling strings, I know who profits most— That's a hell of a gift when you can't turn off the ghost. I don't want answers. I want coffee and rain. Want a little blue sky without somebody else's pain. Let the whole world spin; let the headlines go black. Just give me one morning I don't have to look back. [CHORUS] Welcome to the false paradise, Where the sun shines bright on a world gone blind. Everybody's free till they open their eyes, Everybody's home in a beautiful lie. And I know, I know what's under the skin, The hole in the heaven where the dark gets in. I'd trade all this knowing for a moment of peace— Let me wake up dumb. Let me sleep. [VERSE 2] There's a man on my shift with a permanent grin, Doesn't know the whole world's burning, so he's never looking in. He's got rent, bad knees, and a car that won't start, But his troubles have borders; mine swallow the heart. Mine belong to strangers I'll never get to meet, To the hands that grow the coffee and the blood beneath the street. I can shout across the table till the silverware shakes, But the needle barely twitches while the whole machine takes. Maybe ignorance is bliss, maybe bliss is a cage, Maybe paradise is just a well-decorated stage. I can see the painted sky, the wires, the seams— Still, I'd give anything for one uncomplicated dream. [CHORUS] Welcome to the false paradise, Where the sun shines bright on a world gone blind. Everybody's free till they open their eyes, Everybody's home in a beautiful lie.
