Skin

[Intro] I did everything right. Cut the cords. Changed the locks. Walked out clean. Funny thing about shedding a skin. Something’s always underneath. [Verse 1] Burned the banner. Walked away from the stage. Finished with the need to be saved. Stopped calling them father. Stopped calling them home. Thought that was the exit. I was wrong. Learned to be quiet. Learned to be small. Spoke a little softer so no one could use it at all. Built a safer version. Wore a cleaner name. Told myself this was different… It still looks the same. [Chorus] Escaped the cult — then I built a better one. Escaped the machine — burned it down it was so god damn fun. New skin. Same teeth. Same damn hunger… different disguise. [Verse 2] No more performing for strangers. Now I perform for me. Don’t need their approval — just my own to breathe. Call it boundaries. Call it growth. Call it healing… while I grow another skin. Don’t need the crowd. Don’t need the cage. Just the version of me that can hide from the rage. But every time I get close to a truth I can keep — I feel the old parasite… waking up from its sleep. [Chorus] Escaped the cult — then I built a better one. Escaped the machine — burned it down it was so god damn fun. New skin. Same teeth. Same damn hunger… different disguise. [Bridge] So who’s the warden now? Who turned the key? Look around the cell — it’s empty… except for me. I built every wall with my own two hands. Called it freedom. Never planned to become the thing I ran from. [Final Chorus / Outro] Escaped the cult — now mine’s the only one. I am the machine — and the heart still wants the hum. No one’s watching. No one’s clapping. No one’s saving me… from what I’m becoming. Escaped the old facade… grew myself a new skin. [End]