We All Float

Intro (whispered, unsettling) Come closer… Don’t be afraid. I know your name. I know your fear. --- Verse I Beneath the streets where the dead lights glow, I sleep where broken children go. Paper boats and sewer rain, Laughter stitched with screams and pain. I wear a smile you trust too fast, A painted lie from a buried past. I feed on tremors, shame, and dread— Hope tastes sweetest… When it’s dead. --- Refrain I I am the hunger behind your eyes, The joke that breathes when courage dies. You run, you pray, you scream, you cry— But down here, We all float… We all float inside. Hahahahahahaaaa..... do you want a balloon? --- Verse II I was old when stars were young, When fear had neither face nor tongue. I learned your shape, your lullabies, Your nursery rhymes and bedtime lies. I wait in mirrors, drains, and dreams, I pull the threads, I split the seams. You call me clown, you call me wrong— But I was here… All along. --- Refrain II I am the whisper under skin, The grin that lets the nightmare in. You close your eyes, you beg the sky— But down here, We all float… We all float inside. Hahahahahahahaaaaa...... take the balloon.... --- Bridge (slow, suffocating) I am not teeth. I am not claws. I am what breaks your fragile laws. Belief is blood. Fear is breath. And love is just… A slower death. --- Verse III When you stand tall, when you unite, I shrink from love, I flee the light. But time erodes your fragile bond— And I am patient… I am beyond. When you forget what made you strong, I rise again, eternal, wrong. A god of hunger, shame, and dread— You never kill… What fear has fed. --- Final Refrain (more brutal, inevitable) I am the end you can’t outrun, The laughing shadow when hope is done. You grow old, but I don’t die— And down here… We all float. We all float forever. TAKE THIS FUCKING BALLOON!!!!! --- Outro (whispered, fading) Time to come back… The water’s warm. And you’re not afraid anymore. 🎈 ---