The Show Must Continue

[Intro] Lights up… Cameras turning… Another tragedy begins. [Verse 1] Paint the blood across the stage lights Smile while everything burns Make the violence entertaining Give the audience what they deserve Every hallway feels constructed Every death framed perfectly Like the crawl became a theater Built around catastrophe I can hear the crowd reacting Somewhere far beyond the walls Cheering every bad decision Waiting for another fucking fall [Pre-Chorus] No pause No silence No room to breathe The deeper we go The more they need [Chorus] The show must continue Even when the bodies drop Even when the screaming doesn’t stop The show must continue No matter what it costs No matter who gets lost And every second we survive Just feeds another storyline The crawl keeps moving forward— And we’re trapped inside [Verse 2] Every crawler turns performative Every fight becomes a role Every weakness turned to ratings Every breakdown bought and sold I can feel the pressure building Like the cameras weigh a ton Like they’re waiting for the moment Something inside me comes undone And the worst part isn’t dying It’s becoming what they need Turning fear into a product Turning pain into a feed This whole fucked up situation Feels designed to break us slow And the crowd just keeps on smiling Every time the bodies drop below [Pre-Chorus] No truth No privacy No separating who we are from what they see Every moment stretched and sharpened For the audience to keep [Chorus] The show must continue Even when the bodies drop Even when the screaming doesn’t stop The show must continue No matter what it costs No matter who gets lost And every second we survive Just feeds another storyline The crawl keeps moving forward— And we’re trapped inside [Bridge] Lights flash Crowd screams Everything is worse than it seems No heroes No saints Just survivors shaped by pain They don’t care about redemption They don’t care about escape As long as somebody suffers The machine keeps getting fed [Breakdown] Smile for the cameras Bleed for the lights Give them another beautiful disaster tonight Break down Burn out Still they scream for more No ending No peace Only another goddamn floor [Ambient Break / Spoken Style] “Viewer retention stable… Audience demand increasing…” [Final Chorus] The show must continue Even when we lose ourselves Even when there’s nothing left The show must continue Until the system takes it all Until there’s nothing human left to break or watch fall And every scar we carry now Becomes another headline The crawl keeps moving forward— And we’re running out of time [Outro] Lights up… Smile for the audience… The show isn’t over yet.