DIGITAL SHACKLES

intro

Trapped in the glow, can’t tell what’s real anymore
Lost in the noise, searching for something worth living for

verse 1

I’m lost inside a digital maze, a modern slave
Scrolling memories like pages buried in a grave
No way to run or hide — do you feel the same?
Chains I can’t see still press heavy on my soul
Not the ones I post, just the ones I can’t control
Captions like confessions I can’t let go
Phone in my hand, but it’s holding me instead
Synced to the world, yet alone inside my head
Every like feels holy, but it’s never enough
Every scroll’s a cut that bleeds and leaves me rough
Shadows in my feed keep telling me I’m fine
Drowning in the noise, losing track of time
Chasing validation in a world so fake
Follow shouldn’t tell us how to measure life

chorus 1

Scroll, scroll, scroll — we’re losing control
All we keep doing is scrolling till we’re growing old
Can’t break free of this world, it’s our remote control
We’re prisoners of the screen, addicted to the scroll

verse 2

I used to talk to people, now I talk to my screen
Feels like I’m living inside someone else’s dream
Can’t disconnect, it’s tangled deep in my head
Every scroll I take pulls me deeper instead
Smiles in the frames, locations they tag
Behind all the faces is emptiness they drag
Hungry for illusions, chasing what’s not mine
Trapped in a cycle that steals away my time
Puppet to the code, they pull every string
Algorithms whisper what I’m feeling within
Feeding me their truths, not the ones that I need
They know me better than I even know me
Can’t escape the loop, it rewires my mind
Lost in their system, I’m data by design

chorus 2

Scroll, scroll, scroll — we’re losing control
All we keep doing is scrolling till we’re growing old
Can’t break free of this world, it’s our remote control
We’re prisoners of the screen, addicted to the scroll

verse 3

My data’s out there, a digital gold mine
Every move I make, they’re watching all the time
Clicks and likes recorded, nothing left unseen
I’m a number in a system, lost inside the machine
Privacy is fading in this age of control
Social isolation swallowing the soul
We’re alone together in this endless storm
Searching for a balance, break the binding norm
Before these digital shackles claim our mind
Before they steal the fire burning deep inside
System rewrites every thought we define
We must wake up, take the reins, and draw the line
Stand for the life that they tried to redesign
Break from the cage — this freedom will be mine

chorus 3

Scroll, scroll, scroll — we’re losing control
All we keep doing is scrolling till we’re growing old
Can’t break free of this world, it’s our remote control
We’re prisoners of the screen, addicted to the scroll

bridge

So let’s break these chains and take our lives back
Turn the screens to tools, not the cage they’ve hacked
Don’t let numbers define what we feel inside
Time to reclaim the truth they’ve tried to hide

outro

Silence at last, no more endless scroll
Freedom is quiet, but it heals the soul