Panopticon

Opening lights burn holes in my silhouette

Every eye a lens and every lens a threat

I walk in framed before I make a step

Name in the air like a permanent debt

Flash after flash try to capture my breath

They don’t see life they just measure the depth

Angles to a headline the moment I step

Watching me breathe like it’s part of the show

Smile for the crowd even when I feel low

Glass all around me world already knows

Pressure like gravity pressing my chest

Heavier crowns never pressing my chest

Heavier crowns never come with rest

They want the myth but ignore the mess

They love the rise but they film the stress

Say my name twice make it echo again

Feed it to strangers who call me a friend

Every reflection pretending to blend

But none of the mirrors know where I end

No privacy left just a digital trace

Every mistake put on permanent display

Pause on a frame try to read to save

I see the scripts that they want me to play

Hero build me up just to watch me decay

Cycle repeats and they call it my fate

Pressure like gravity pressing my chest

Heavier crowns never pressing my chest

Heavier crowns never come with rest

They want the myth but ignore the mess

They love the rise but they film the stress

Curtains don’t close they just change the scene

Different illusion same routine

Spotlight bright but it cuts too clean

I lose myself in what I’ve been seen

I hear the noise but it don’t feel real

Voices too loud but they never feel

I speak once and they twist the deal

Truth gets buried beneath the-

Pressure like gravity pressing my chest

Heavier crowns never pressing my chest

Heavier crowns never come with rest

They want the myth but ignore the mess

They love the rise but they film the stress

I am the watcher inside the cage

Stage so wide but it feels so caged

Life in a loop on a glow feel eyes

Even in left where the self can hide