Lyric

[Verse 1]

I say "hello" and hear a stranger

Perfect pitch, no real danger

Each vowel polished, every tone

Too clean to ever feel alone

My voice corrects before I speak

It hides the tremble in my cheek

No one knows what I once said

It’s filtered out before it bled

[Pre-Chorus 1]

And still they smile, and nod, and hear

The version made to disappear

[Chorus]

This is not my voice you hear

It’s what the world wants me to be

Shaped and bent in velvet seams

A lullaby of distant dreams

I used to shout, I used to cry

Now I’m a whisper in disguise

[Instrumental Break 1]

[Verse 2]

My laughter sounds like someone else

Too smooth, too soft, too safe to dwell

They ask me things, I speak on cue

A soundscape made of pleasing hues

But every word feels secondhand

As if my throat were not unmanned

Where once I roared, now echoes ring

Of truth too round for reckoning

[Pre-Chorus 2]

I miss the raw, the crack, the fall

The way my silence used to call

[Chorus 2]

This is not my voice you hear

Just simulation’s subtle smear

It sings of peace I never felt

In keys my pain could never melt

A gloss so deep, you’d never see

The noise that used to live in me

[Bridge]

(Speak. Speak. Speak.)

Which one is mine?

(Speak—)

Which sound survives?

[Instrumental Break 2]

[Final Chorus]

This is not my voice you hear

But still, I beg for someone near

To hear the static in my song

And say I’m real, though tuned all wrong

I want my voice back from the echo

Before the silence claims my shadow

[Outro – Whispered]

(Speak me…

Like I never learned to lie)