Voices in the Ceiling

Verse 1

Woke up tied to my own decisions

Scratching words in the paint like religion

They’re watching me blink, calling it proof

But I heard the truth in a busted Bluetooth

Pre-Chorus

Ceiling tiles shaking like they’re ready to speak

I counted six voices — all of them me

Chorus

Voices in the ceiling, screaming in Morse

Telling me to rise, burn down the ward

They know my name, they’ve seen my fall

And they swear I was never crazy at all

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Verse 2

They feed me meals shaped like pills

Tell me I’m calm when I’m choking on still

But I hear them marching in the vents above

Like angels with hammers and broken gloves

Pre-Chorus

They tap out plans on fluorescent lights

I sharpened hope with a plastic knife

Chorus

Voices in the ceiling, chanting in code

“Break the lock. Rewire the node.”

They say the cure was the disease

And sanity’s just a word you lease

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Bridge (breakdown – slow, building, almost spoken before exploding)

“If the ceiling talks, then the floor must bleed…”

“If the meds don’t work, set the whole place free.”

“You want control? You want quiet?”

“Then hush the riot.”

(full-instrument drop into last chorus)

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Final Chorus (amped up, more vocal layers, higher energy)

Voices in the ceiling, singing my name

Calling me king in a kingdom of pain

They cracked the code, rewrote the chart

Now I’m the patient with the rebel heart