The Golden Handcuffs
PORCELAIN HEARTS
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Six am
The alarm's a gunshot
Another day begins
Fluorescent lights are humming
Bathing us in all our sins
The coffee's bitter
Tastes like ash
But it gets the engine going
Another meeting about nothing
While the debt outside is growing
Clicking keys in a gray cubicle
A masterpiece of beige
Pretending this is freedom
Just a rat inside a cage
They told me work hard
Play by rules
I got the degree on the wall
Now it's just expensive wallpaper
For this silent
Daily fall
Oh these golden handcuffs
They shine so bright
They're choking out the dreams I had
In the dead of night
I traded my whole soul
For a promise of a life
A mortgage on the soul
Just to survive
This is the beautiful trap
The comfortable
Slow knife
They sell us pictures on a screen
A life we'll never touch
Just work a little harder
But a little's never much
My student loan's a shadow
That follows me to bed
While they're building new empires
On the bones of all the dead
And broken dreams we left behind
We're the burnout generation
Running on anxiety
And caffeine stimulation
I'm a slave to the freedom
Of a nine-to-five routine
Just another dying battery
In their profit-making machine
Oh these golden handcuffs
They shine so bright
They're choking out the dreams I had
In the dead of night
I traded my whole soul
For a promise of a life
A mortgage on the soul
Just to survive
This is the beautiful trap
The comfortable
Slow knife
Is this all there is
This hollow
Safe design
We built a perfect prison
And we tell ourselves we're fine
We're fine
We're not fine
A mortgage on the soul
Bought and sold
Choking on the comfort
While you do just what you're told
This is not a life
It's a cage of gold
Break the handcuffs