Futures and Options
[Intro]
The walls looked permanent
Until the pressure spoke.
[Verse]
They built their towers out of hollow
Steel and smoke and borrowed names
Selling futures to the broken
While setting fire to the frame
Every lie required another
Every mask another face
Every layer of deception
Pulled the structure out of place
[Pre-Chorus]
You can silence every warning
You can bury every scar
But corruption writes its signature
Into everything you are
[Chorus]
Because the seed of destruction
Was hidden in the crime
Every fracture growing wider
With the pressure of time
Now the empire’s shaking violently
From the inside out
No enemy at the gates
Just the weight of its own doubt
[Interlude]
[Verse]
The screens kept glowing through the darkness
Synthetic dreams and dopamine
People dancing in the ruins
Of a dying machine
Truth became a dangerous language
Depth became a threat
And every soul that still remembered
Was something to suppress
[Pre-Chorus]
But reality is patient
And consequence survives
You can distort the field for decades
But distortion never stabilises
[Chorus]
Because the seed of destruction
Was hidden in the crime
Every fracture growing wider
With the pressure of time
Now the empire’s shaking violently
From the inside out
No enemy at the gates
Just the weight of its own doubt
[Bridge]
Round and round the vortex turning
Every hidden thing revealed
Power feeding on illusion
While the architecture peeled
And the people started waking
One by one beneath the noise
Hearing something in the distance
Like a sleeping lion’s voice
[Breakdown]
Nothing hidden...
Nothing buried...
Nothing escapes the field...
[Final Chorus]
Because corruption breeds collapse
Like rust beneath the skin
Every system built on falsehood
Eventually caves in
Now the signal’s moving through it
Like fire through the wires
And the kingdom built on theatre
Falls beneath its own desires
The collapse had already begun.
Copyright Taun A. Richards 2026