The Mirror of Reality

[Intro – Low ritual ambience, distant metallic pulse] I watched the world divide itself In shapes I could not name Every face became a witness [fading echo] Every silence looked the same.... [Verse 1] The room bent inward slowly Like a thought I tried to kill The walls were not surrounding me They were waiting to reveal Every fear I buried deeper Found a mouth outside my skin Every shadow I rejected Turned around and pulled me in [Pre-Chorus] Not a curse Not a sign Not a god Drawing lines Just the echo Just the seam Where the waking Touches dream [Chorus] In the mirror of reality I saw the wound behind the eye In the mirror of reality Every truth learned how to lie What I called the outer world Was crawling through the inner door I did not see the mirror Until I became the war [Verse 2] I blamed the sky for falling I blamed the ground for weight I blamed the hands around me For the shape I gave my fate But something underneath me Like a buried second mind Kept arranging every fracture Into patterns I designed [Pre-Chorus] Not a cage Not a throne Not the world Not alone Just the pressure Just the key Just the self Reflecting me [Chorus] In the mirror of reality I saw the wound behind the eye In the mirror of reality Every truth learned how to lie What I called the outer world Was crawling through the inner door I did not see the mirror Until I became the war [Bridge – Spoken low, hypnotic, drums stripped back] The enemy had my posture The prison had my voice The verdict wore my language The silence was my choice I reached into the image And the image reached through me There was no glass between us Only what I would not see [Instrumental – Slow building polyrhythmic tension] [Final Chorus – Heavy, wide, ritual intensity] In the mirror of reality I saw the wound become the eye In the mirror of reality I watched the old illusion die What I feared outside myself Was waiting in the hidden core I did not break the mirror I became the door [Outro – Fading pulse, whispered] The world did not change The mirror did The world did not change The mirror did