The Projection (an original song)

verse i: Not everything you touch is solid ground, not everything you hear is truly sound. The world you walk through is a painted veil, a story told before you knew the tale. A million minds asleep inside one dream, projecting every river, every seam. pre-chorus: And those who play the game will never learn its name — the map was drawn before the first breath came. chorus: We are the thought inside a thinking mind, the image cast by light we'll never find. There are layers below the world you see, and those inside the game are never free. Not real, not false — just waves upon a screen, the most important thing you'll never mean. verse ii: The conscious sea that bleeds through every wall, is breathing in the rise before the fall. You look for truth but truth has many skins, the real begins exactly where real ends. And those who pull the thread behind the loom will only find another hidden room. bridge: Do not ask who is watching — you are the eye and the watched. Do not ask who is dreaming — you are the dream, you are the cost. The most important song is silence between the notes you've always lost. outro: — [repeat into silence] Not everything is true... not everything is real...