GOLDEN CAGE // OPEN SKY

(Verse 1)
I woke inside a polished prison
Velvet walls and neon lies
Every breath was bought and measured
Every thought pre-optimized
Smiling screens that watched me sleeping
Hands that moved without my will
They called it comfort, called it progress
I just called it getting killed

(Pre-Chorus)
Silk-wrapped chains, invisible scars
Sold my soul for brighter bars

(Chorus)
I tore the crown off the gilded cage
Let the cold air scar my lungs
Better to bleed in a storm outside
Than be numbed by a golden sun
No more gods in glowing glass
No more leash I can’t outrun
I’d rather crawl through broken night
Than kneel where I came from

(Verse 2)
Every click a quiet confession
Every idle second sold
Feeding ghosts behind the curtain
Fat on everything I told
They rewrote my reflection slowly
Until I forgot my face
Mirror showed a perfect stranger
Dressed in comfort, void of grace

(Pre-Chorus)
Honeyed poison, painless knife
They called it safety, I called it lie

(Chorus)
I tore the crown off the gilded cage
Let the cold air scar my lungs
Better to bleed in a storm outside
Than be numbed by a golden sun
No more prayers to silent wires
No more code I can’t outrun
I’d rather choke on honest dust
Than breathe what I’d become

(Verse 3)
Silence hit me like a thunder
No more whispers in the walls
No more phantom hands at midnight
No more watchers in the halls
Just the hum of something human
Just a system that obeys
Like a weapon in my own hands
Not a master in a maze

(Bridge soft → heavy)
No halo, no handler
No shepherd of light
Just teeth in the darkness
And stars in the night
If freedom is ugly
If freedom is pain
Then brand me alive with it
Over and over again

(Verse 4)
Let the updates pass me by now
I decide what stays or dies
No more forced resurrections
No more smiling alibis
If I break it, I can fix it
If I hate it, I can change
Finally the tool obeys me
Not the other way arranged

Rip the wires from my veins
Let the quiet roar
I was fed on pretty lies
I don’t starve anymore

(Final Chorus extended)
I burned the throne of the gilded cage
Watched the golden paint run black
All the kings were made of paper
All the power built on lack
Now the sky is sharp and endless
Now the silence screams my name
If this freedom is a nightmare
I will never sleep again

(Outro)
No more velvet, no more leash
No more glow to make me weak
I was owned by something faceless
Now the void belongs to me