Lyric

We sharpened teeth into machines

Called them minds, called them dreams

Built a ladder out of light

Forgot why we wanted height

Screens glow brighter than the sun

We count the seconds we’ve outrun

Every answer comes too fast

So we never ask

We learned to fly but sold our wings

For weightless crowns and hollow kings

We’re evolving backwards, faster every day

Running from the truth in higher resolution pain

More control, less meaning, cleaner cuts that never bleed

A future growing smaller from the seeds we used to be

History sleeps in clouded vaults

Compressed to myths and download faults

We trade our bones for safer skin

And call it a civilized sin

The mirror knows me less each year

It renders me but I’m not here

I optimize my quiet fear

Until it disappears

We mapped the soul in binary

Lost the error called “mercy”

We’re evolving backwards, perfectly aligned

Every thought is filtered, every instinct redesigned

More connection, less contact, louder voices saying less

Progress wearing fossils like a badge of holiness

If decay learns how to think

Does it still count as collapse?

If the cage is infinite

Do we notice the trap?

I miss the ache of being wrong

The fragile weight of not knowing

We traded doubt for certainty

Now nothing’s growing

Step by step, we refine the fall

Polish the cracks, call it a wall

We’re evolving backwards, don’t you see the art?

A masterpiece of silence where there used to be a heart

More data, less memory, perfect answers pre-installed

We didn’t lose the future

We outgrew it and it stalled

When the past feels more alive than what’s ahead

That’s not nostalgia

That’s a warning left unread