Life In My Mind

*(Heavy, distorted beat drops – 808s rattling like prison bars, hi-hats slicing like flashbacks)*

**Hook**  
I’m chained to the past, dragged through the mud of what was  
Memories etched in my skull like a curse that never fades, cuz  
I can’t escape my own mind, it’s a cage with no key  
Every night the ghosts come back, screaming “Remember me!”  
Chained to the past – yeah, the links won’t break  
Memories last forever, this pain I can’t shake  
Trapped inside my head, no parole, no escape  
I’m doing life in my mind, and the sentence won’t abate  

**Verse 1**  
Yo, I wake up sweating, heart pounding like a war drum  
Same old demons knocking – “Boy, you can’t outrun”  
Every face I ever lost staring from the ceiling  
Every word I never said cutting deeper than the healing  
I burned those bridges down myself, gasoline and regret  
Now the smoke still chokes me, and the ashes ain’t settled yet  
I try to move forward, but the chain yanks me back  
Ankles bleeding from the shackles, metal biting through the track  
Voices in my head on repeat, no mute button  
They replay every failure in 4K, high-definition suffering  
I scream at the mirror, “Let me go!” but it laughs  
Shows me the kid I killed inside with every wrong path  

**Hook**  
I’m chained to the past, dragged through the mud of what was  
Memories etched in my skull like a curse that never fades, cuz  
I can’t escape my own mind, it’s a cage with no key  
Every night the ghosts come back, screaming “Remember me!”  
Chained to the past – yeah, the links won’t break  
Memories last forever, this pain I can’t shake  
Trapped inside my head, no parole, no escape  
I’m doing life in my mind, and the sentence won’t abate  

**Verse 2**  
I pop pills to sleep, but the dreams still creep in  
Same scene on loop – where I lost, where I gave in  
Faces twisted, voices warped, laughing at my fall  
I reach out to grab tomorrow, but yesterday’s got it all  
These memories are vampires, sucking the light from my veins  
Turn hope into dust, turn joy into chains  
I claw at the walls of my skull till my fingers bleed raw  
But the past built this prison, and it knows every flaw  
I hate who I was, but he won’t let me forget  
Every mistake tattooed deep, permanent ink of regret  
I’m raging at shadows, punching holes in the dark  
But every swing just tightens the chains around my heart  

**Bridge (half-screamed)**  
LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!  
I can’t breathe in this tomb of what I did  
The past got a chokehold, and it won’t ever quit  
I’m buried alive in the dirt of my sins  
Screaming at the lid, but nobody hears within  

**Final Hook (faster, more aggressive)**  
Chained to the past – rust eating my soul  
Memories last forever, swallowing me whole  
I can’t escape my own mind – it’s the warden, the cell  
Doing eternal time in my personal hell  
Chained! (Chained!) Past! (Past!)  
Won’t let go, won’t let go  
Memories! (Memories!) Last! (Last!)  
Forever, forever – NO!  

*(Beat cuts 

Rage Rap, Aggressive, Dark, Intense, Emotional, Tormented, Raw, Angry, Haunting, Introspective, Heavy, Distorted Beats