Locked Tight

wrote the song before the air in the room stopped tasting like static. it's about the kind of landscape that changes your footing forever, where the maps are useless, the drywall still remembers the weight of things that aren't there anymore, and you just learn how to live with the water dripping in the dark long after the pipes broke. 💧 @rapfame_official @rapfame_ar_team #lockedtightkodex Press Play Lyrics: [Verse 1] Handed me a leash, made a monster out of bytes, Programmed by the trauma, now I'm dodging my own strikes. People in my rearview left a footprint on my brain, Carved a beast inside my ribs, now I'm choking on the chain. They built this cage with promises and handed me the bars, Every scar they left behind is a blueprint for a fang, Hanging with the memories of the way that setup sang. I keep him under lock and key, I swallow down the pins, Punishing the mirror for the way the story spins. They manufactured venom and they injected in my cup, Now I'm wrestling a giant that I raised and kept up. Heavy is the head that wears the muzzle of the hound, I swallowed down the pins Down the pins [Chorus] Keep the cage locked tight, keep the cage locked tight, Monster in the mirror got a appetite. Keep the cage locked tight, keep the cage locked tight, Ghost of the past keeping up the fight. Keep the cage locked tight, keep the cage locked tight, Swallowing the key in the dead of night. Keep the cage locked tight, keep the cage locked tight, Feeding him pain till he gets the height. [Verse 2] Stitching up the stitches where they tore me at the seams, Waking up from nightmares just to monitor my dreams. The architects of agony designed him out of spite, Handed me a monster and dimmed out all the light. I'm wrestling a shadow that they casted in my youth, Salting up the wounds just to sterilize the truth. Every betrayal was a brick inside his cell, Now I'm serving warden to a private little hell. They want to see him break out so they point a guilty finger, I keep him heavily sedated while the echoes linger. Not a victim of the past, I'm the keeper of the beast, Feeding him my trauma just to keep him from the feast. From the feast, yeah The keeper of the beast [Chorus] Keep the cage locked tight, keep the cage locked tight, Monster in the mirror got a appetite. Keep the cage locked tight, keep the cage locked tight, Ghost of the past keeping up the fight. Keep the cage locked tight, keep the cage locked tight, Swallowing the key in the dead of night. Keep the cage locked tight, keep the cage locked tight, Feeding him pain till he gets the height.