The Man I Built

Alternative Metal/ Modern Nu Metal/ Electronic Rock/ Post-Hardcore influence


I spent years building walls
Brick by brick and floor by floor,
Made them strong enough to hold,
Strong enough to hide my soul.

Every promise turned concrete,
Every word was sealed away.
I kept adding one more layer,
Just to make it through the day.

Now the room is getting smaller,
And the air is running thin.
I became my own jailer,
Locked inside the man I've been.

I'm staring at the man I built,
And I don't know his face anymore.
Every memory now carries guilt,
I can't find the key to this door.

To another cage,
To another lie,
To another version of myself.

Tell me —
When did survival
Become something else?

I learned how to hide,
Cutting skin with sharpened steel.
Everybody bought the story,
No one knew what I could feel.

I was climbing every hill
Just to stand there all alone.
Now the kingdom that I wanted
No longer feels like home.

I'm breaking it down.
Brick by brick.
I'll tear it all down
Feeling sick.

If this is who I had to be,
Was it worth becoming me?

I'm staring at the man I built,
And I don't know his face anymore.
Every memory now carries guilt,
I can't find the key to this door.

To another cage,
To another lie,
To another version of myself.

If I break these walls tonight,
Maybe I'll find somebody else inside.

Just a human,
Not a king,
Just the ghost
Of everything.