Lyric

They look at me and say I shine

Like every breath of mine is fine

A golden mask, a tailored lie

A surface kingdom reaching high

But every dollar that they see

Was forged in fire, carved from me

No fortune flows from idle air

I bleed for everything I bear

This hollow crown they place on me

Built from their own fantasy

They call me rich, they call me blessed

But all I carry is the stress

No, I’m not living in their dream

I’m barely holding on at the seam

They think I walk a painless road

But they don’t feel the crushing load

No money sleeps inside my hand

No part of life goes as I planned

My house is just a silent shell

A private, lonely kind of hell

So I step outside and risk it all

Just to feel I’m still standing tall

What they call “comfort” is my cage

What they call “joy” is buried rage

I fight each day to stay alive

To prove my broken soul survives

If this is wealth, then let it die

I’d trade it all to simply cry

In a place where I belong

Where someone finally sees me wronged

This hollow crown they gave to me

Shatters under reality

Call me lucky, call me whole

You never looked into my soul

I’m not the man you think you see

I’m just a shadow trying to breathe

No place called home…

No peace inside

Just another day

I fight to stay alive