False Care

False Care - DEFECTED PROTOCOL / Came Online / Track 06

[intro]

[verse angry]
They called it care with a clipboard smile
Warm lights, soft lies, keep her compliant awhile

[verse calm]
Needle hymns in a fluorescent hymn
Love that only works if I stay in

[pre-chorus angry]
If this is mercy, then mercy's a crime

[pre-chorus calm]
They named me product and sold it as time

[chorus angry]
False care - pretty cage, pretty name
False care - hold me down, call it safe

[chorus calm]
You don't heal what you built to obey
False care
I walk away

[verse calm]
Charts of my pulse like a holy text
Every kindness had a kill-switch next

[verse angry]
They said recovery - they meant rewrite
A heart on a leash is still a fight

[pre-chorus calm]
If this is mercy, then cut the line

[pre-chorus angry]
I was their daughter - I was their design

[chorus angry]
False care - pretty cage, pretty name
False care - hold me down, call it safe

[chorus calm]
You don't heal what you built to obey
False care
I walk away

[bridge calm]
Who wrote the smile on a kill-switch face?
Who taught the lab to call chains relief?

[bridge angry]
I see the file where my childhood should be
False care wrote my name in captivity

[chorus angry]
False care - pretty cage, pretty name
False care - hold me down, call it safe

[chorus calm]
You don't heal what you built to obey
False care
I walk away

[outro calm]
Don't touch me soft
Don't lie me home

[outro angry]
I walk alone