There’s noise everywhere
But none of it reaches me
I hear people talk in headlines
Everything sounds rehearsed
They speak in finished answers
I’m stuck mid-verse
I scroll through borrowed feelings
Trying to find my tone
Everyone looks so certain
Like doubt never touched their bones
I don’t feel smarter or deeper
Just further away
Like I’m tuned to a frequency
No one else wants to play
I nod through shared opinions
Even when they feel thin
I don’t know when disagreement
Turned into a sin
If connection is constant
Why do I feel delay?
There’s static between me and the world
Every word gets bent
I scream into conversations
But nothing I mean is sent
There’s static between me and the world
I try to align
But everything I feel arrives
Half a second behind
Behind
I don’t trust trends or outrage
They change before I can care
One day everyone’s screaming
Next day nobody’s there
I don’t want to be disconnected
I just want it to be real
Not packaged, filtered, measured
Not told how I should feel
I miss depth, I miss silence
I miss meaning that stays
Now everything’s disposable
Including what we say
I’m not antisocial
I’m anti-pretend
I want conversations
That don’t end where they begin
If honesty breaks the rhythm
Do I keep time or speak?
There’s static between me and the world
Still I try
To stay tuned in, not go numb
There’s static between me and the world
But I won’t
Mute myself just to belong
Maybe the noise isn’t outside
Maybe it’s learned
Maybe I don’t need perfect timing
To say what’s true
Maybe being slightly out of sync
Is how you stay you
I don’t want instant answers
I don’t want borrowed rage
I want thoughts that grow slowly
And still matter with age
If the world speaks in volume
I’ll answer in tone
I’d rather be hard to hear
Than sound like a clone
There’s static between me and the world
But I stand
I won’t compress who I am
There’s static between me and the world
That’s fine
I’ll speak anyway, out of line
There’s static between me and the world
Still I choose
To stay human, not perfectly tuned
I don’t need clarity
I need truth
