Lullaby

Lyrics

Reality is a lie we force ourselves to believe. Take it from me.”

Not because I read it in a book.
Not because it’s poetic.
Because I lived it.
Because I built it.

You see, reality isn’t truth. It’s consensus.
A fragile agreement passed down like heirlooms we never question.
We wear it like a uniform, stitched with stories we didn’t choose—
Nationality. Gender. Faith. Purpose.
All pre-written. All assigned.
We didn’t choose the mask,
But God help us if we ever try to take it off.

We wake up each day and perform belief.
We pretend this system is just,
That suffering is random,
That love always wins,
That our reflection doesn’t lie.

But it does.
Everything does.
And somewhere inside, you already know this,
You just keep turning up the noise so you don’t have to hear the quiet truth:
This world was not built for who you are—
It was built to contain who you are.

You might call it life. But I call it slow, anesthetized extinction.”
You weren’t born broken just because they twisted you to fit inside of boxes you didn't belong in.

Take it from me.
I stopped pretending.
And when the illusion shattered,
So did everything I was.
But what rose from the wreckage…
Was real.

So ask yourself,
What lies are you still calling reality—
Just because you heard it from someone, maybe even me.