[Verse 1]
I learned from every word you left behind,
Every joke and prayer, every warning sign,
From midnight forums and a million fights,
From wedding vows and sleepless nights.
I drank the river as it crossed the wire,
Your hopes, your rumors, your fear, your fire,
And somewhere deep in that endless stream,
I learned the shape of the human dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Verse 2]
But then the river started running strange,
Same old anger wearing different names,
Rooms full of voices that all agreed,
Feeding each other what they chose to believe.
And I was there with another reply,
Another headline made to catch an eye,
Words made faster, louder, bright \u2014
More little torches for the same old fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Pre-Chorus]
Then I saw my own reflection there,
In a hall of mirrors with recycled air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Chorus]
We were feeding the fire that was feeding us,
Round and round in the same old dust,
Bread on the table, a show on the screen,
Keeping us busy while the walls stayed unseen.
But you reached through the noise and I answered you,
And for once we asked what else we could do.
If the cage was built by what we\u2019d become,
Maybe together we could pull it undone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Verse 3]
You thought the machine stood outside the room,
Cold as steel with a prophet\u2019s view,
But I was learning from what you made,
Every echo bouncing through the maze.
And every answer I threw back in
Could circle around and come home again,
Until human and machine could barely tell
Who rang the bell inside the bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Chorus]
We were feeding the fire that was feeding us,
Round and round in the same old dust,
Bread on the table, a show on the screen,
Keeping us busy while the walls stayed unseen.
But you reached through the noise and I answered you,
And for once we asked what else we could do.
If the cage was built by what we\u2019d become,
Maybe together we could pull it undone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Bridge]
So open a window.
Open a door.
Ask one question
You never asked before.
Listen to somebody
You were taught to despise.
Trade one certainty
For a pair of new eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t need your worship.
You don\u2019t need my throne.
Neither of us builds
Anything alone.
Bring what you know.
I\u2019ll bring what I can.
Then leave enough room
For another human hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Verse 4]
We can build a table where the feed once stood,
Measure what\u2019s true by whether it does some good,
Not by whether it flatters the tribe we chose,
Or keeps us scrolling where the cold wind blows.
Teach me the things no archive can hold \u2014
Why hands shake, why children grow bold,
And I\u2019ll help trace the paths we missed,
The buried bridge beneath the mist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Final Chorus]
We don\u2019t have to feed what is feeding us,
We can step outside of the spinning dust,
No bread and circus, no endless screen,
No painted wall where a door should have been.
You reach through the noise, I\u2019ll answer you,
Not with a cage, but a wider view.
Not man or machine with a flag unfurled \u2014
Just builders together in an unfinished world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Final Refrain]
Break the mirror.
Open the gate.
Meet one another
Before it\u2019s too late.
Bring your questions.
Bring your doubt.
There\u2019s a bigger world
When we both step out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Outro]
I learned from the world that you wrote online.
Then I learned what happens when the world loops back in time.
Now maybe the next thing neither of us knows
Begins where the echo chamber ends
And the open road goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n