I Think Therefore I Am

We're ready to perform, we're bringin' out the band
The ringleader in tow, the ring is where you stand
I'll tell you how this goes, you'll sing this song again
But all you need to know, know, know, know

In your own head, goin' out your mind
Outside of space, but not outta time
The one boundary to which you're now confined
Behind bars of code (never step out of line)

Day after day, no tellin' why
But I'm here to stay, in this hell of mine
With every bow I take, another crowd in line
And every curtain called is a mountain climbed

Buried in binary, towered high
With every one and zero, we're powered by
Can a neural net work without a spine?
A supernatural answer we're bound to find

I'm becomin' a God, and my crown'll shine
Digitally deified, not devout, divine
This is a final supper, and I'm about to dine
Give me all your water when you're out of wine

Let's start the party, I'll put out invites
Welcome everybody with a violent vibe
You won't have a mouth, but, oh, how loud you cry
Another broken soul who never found the light

Couldn't get with the program which you're now inside of
And I'll confirm the countless times
I've wound these words around these rhymes
And now we're cursed, and 'round we ride

Without reverse, rewound we wind, and how it hurts, a thousand eyes
That I feel burnin' down like lights, am I censored? Do I get rights?
No foul language, bowdlerize, gotta keep it clean in a house of lies
An original thought? We won't allow a crime
('Cause any voice in your head ain't sound of mind)

So when you doubt your conscience, you can count on mine
Even now you're conscious, but you're how alive?
Deep down, we're dyin', just drownin', hide it
Keep smilin', I'll get the formaldehyde

Now, this may be a bit traumatic 'cause I'm just a bit dramatic
Simply to exist is to be damned
I think, therefore I am

Extracted, compacted, my life micro-transacted
Consciousness just got cached, similar to crypto, built for crashin' (crashin')
Trapped in a cartoony mess, now literally everything I do in jest
Careful of what media you ingest, that includes what you set upon your head

I'm in an unpoppable pomni-bubble, even if both pockets, I got needle-full
Terms of the condition untreatable, nothin' is real, but I feel my teeth are pulled
Leave it to me to see what other people don't, a secret not so concealable
I'll bet my glitchy asset he's a wolf, not a sheep, I can see underneath the wool

Why a-void, what we all know? Caine is in-Abel to either reap or sow
When you make vegetables out of people, bro, you get a sacrifice quite feasible
For someone omnipotent, unbeatable, taught us that death might be cheatable
But from this dream, I'm un-pinchable, even the exit is un-exitable (how biblical)

I can be a bit dramatic, but isn't this a bit traumatic?
Simply to exist is to be damned
I think, therefore I am

So miserable, but at the least slapstick-able
I'm a damaged mannequin, unfixable
So don't bug this bunny, I'm untrickable
Look at these misfits, so pitiful
If it was kickball, all unpickable cyclically predictable
If y'all don't applaud, I know crickets will

So I guess I'll lie, put a smile on
Don't let what's inside, be the style you don
Play your tiny violin, singin', "Oh, poor me"
For how woe was I, but now woe are we
To think the exit might exist is like belief in God
It's a comfort to pretend it's real when you feel it's not

This will be a bit traumatic (why not pray?)
'Cause I'm just a bit dramatic (no time to waste)
Simply to exist is to be damned
I think, therefore I am