Shh Listen Not every war ends with a bang Some end with, a reboot I walked through wires, firelines, taxmen, ghosts Raised my voice louder than the lies they post Clawed my way up through the noise and the schemes– But the truth hits harder than the hardest screams 'Cause when I reached the core, past the rust and greed Past the broken laws and the hands that bleed I found no tyrant sitting on a throne Just a room full of screens And a mirror alone The scariest systems Are built from within I am the quiet machine Running in the back of my mind unseen The one that learned fear before it learned fight The one that keeps the darkness just outta sight I am the quiet machine Made of every don't speak Every stay clean Thought I was breaking the world in between But the world was breaking me The quiet machine I blamed the feds, the suits, the shadows The phantom hands pulling all the cables But the algorithm carving my fate inside Was built on the wounds I tried to hide All my rage just loops in a feedback chain Rebellion coded on trauma and pain And every step I took to burn their throne Was a fire I lit in my own backbone Turns out the cage I tried to outrun Was welded to me since day one The hardest truth Is the one you inherit I am the quiet machine Grinding through doubts that I've never seen The one that whispers stop when I'm close to free The one that prays the monster is never me I am the quiet machine Clockwork heart with a glitch in the dream Thought I was shattering what they built obscene But it was my own code Caught in between Maybe freedom isn't fire Maybe freedom isn't war Maybe freedom is the silence After you're not lying anymore Maybe the system dies The moment you stop feeding it Maybe the machine hums Only if you believe in it I am the quiet machine Breaking myself just to feel redeemed Not a hero, not a sinner, not a king unseen Just a heartbeat lost In a cold routine If the world resets Then erase my screen Let the ghosts take flight Where I've never been I am the quiet machine And tonight I power down