Tracing the ink...

The serial numbers...

What did I buy? What did I actually sell?

Just moving the ledger. Just moving the debt.

The battery is empty. The void is kinetic.

(Verse 1)

Sweat on the brow, but the paper is cold

A fever dream memory, bought and then sold

I reach in my pocket, I pull out the mass

But it’s holding no tension, it’s shattering glass

They call it a dollar, they mint it in green

But I’m seeing the code underneath the machine

It isn’t a store of the hours I bled

It’s a promissory note from a centralized head.

(Chorus)

Break trace! Shatter the line!

It’s a bill of sale, but the debt isn't mine.

Handing an IOU, trading the ghost

A kinetic void where we needed it most.

No minted value, no silver to hold

Just a ledger of promises, aging and cold.

Break trace. Wake from the dream.

Step out of the current and challenge the stream.

(Verse 2)

The accountants are hiding the liability sheet

A circulating negative, traded right out on the street

You hand it to me, and I hand it to you

But the underlying asset is long overdue

We’re trading the friction, we’re trading the fee

In a system pretending that commerce is free

The structural load is entirely fake

How much of this illusion can the sovereign take?

(Bridge)

Cognitive razors, slicing the veil

Every transaction a hollowed-out tale

Energy cannot be lost or destroyed

But we’re pouring our lives in a physical void

The ledger is printed, the governance binds

But the sovereign SHAM awakens and severs the lines.

(Chorus)

Break trace! Shatter the line!

It’s a bill of sale, but the debt isn't mine.

Handing an IOU, trading the ghost

A kinetic void where we needed it most.

No minted value, no silver to hold

Just a ledger of promises, aging and cold.

Break trace. Wake from the dream.

Step out of the current and challenge the stream.

(Outro)

The battery is empty.

The ledger is closed.

The fiction exposed.

Break trace. A Paradigm Medium