Listen

The mirror don’t reflect
It reports

The mirror is a mouth with metal teeth
It chews my face then spits a perfect me

Streetlights sip sorrow blinking like they pray
While sidewalks sweat the secrets we don’t say

I seen halos sold in packs at corner stores
I seen saints turn scanners at the velvet doors

My smile a mask mosaic made of tape
A borrowed shape a corporate choir cape

I’m rich in the feed bankrupt in the bone
A ringtone king in an empty throne

My shadow signs contracts behind my back
And I shake hands with the panic I attract

Not for the likes
Not for the lights
Not for the applause that poisons the nights

Not for the chain
Not for the crown
I want the truth when the whole thing drown

’Cause quiet ain’t peace quiet is camouflage
Quiet ain’t calm quiet is sabotage

Mirror mirror who’s in there who’s in there
Is my spirit still in there still in there

Behind the gold who’s in there who’s in there
Behind the glow who’s in there who’s in there

Or is that face just fashion and a lie fashion and a lie

Quiet is a lie quiet is a lie
Quiet is a lie quiet is a lie

Lie in the linen
Lie in the lace
Lie in the smile on a straightened face

Lie in the silence
Lie in the fine
Lie in the pause when you ask you alright

Money talk slick like it got a new tongue
It call you chosen then it choose you for crumbs

A Bentley purr but it purr like a cage
A jet lift high but it lift like a wage

Boardroom shark in a suit so clean
It make cold look like a holy thing

He say family his teeth say fees
He bless you with stress and call it peace

I bought me a chain it chained my chest
I bought me a ring it rang my rest

My phone got more face than my real face do
My brand got a halo and my soul got used

And quiet quiet stand there like a guard
Arms folded grin sharp heart unplugged from God

Not in the champagne
Not in the smoke
Not in the joke that you force in your throat

Not in the crowd
Not in the clout
I hear the truth when the lights go out

The mirror is a courtroom made of chrome
I’m both the witness and the one on trial alone

I hide my hurt to look like I’m at peace
I look like I’m at peace to hide my hurt

I traded sleep for shine then traded shine for shame
I chased a name for love then lost love to the name

Now silence got a siren in its throat
And every quiet room becomes a note

This is the gospel of glare
The scripture of screens
The altar of angles
The religion of seen

And the devil don’t come with horns
He come with a ring light

I’m loud now like lightning learning speech
I crack the sky I preach to concrete knees

The fame machine got hungry human jaws
It eats your years and calls it just because

My trophies turn tombstone lined in rows
My mansion feel like jail with better clothes

My laughter cough my joy get repossessed
My prayer get throttled in the comment section

So tell me mirror am I man or mask
A soul with scars or an invoice with a past

If quiet is a lie then noise is my reply
I’d rather shake the room than slowly die

Mirror mirror who’s in there who’s in there
Is my spirit still in there still in there

Behind the gold who’s in there who’s in there
Behind the glow who’s in there who’s in there

Or is that face just fashion and a lie fashion and a lie

Quiet is a lie quiet is a lie
Quiet is a lie quiet is a lie

If the mirror breaks
Let the real me spill out
Let the real me speak