Prompt:

Verse 1We built a castle out of promises they sold in plastic wrapFollowed every dotted line on a pre-conditioned mapThey told us hard work pays the debt, and youth will never fadeSo we traded hours for a check and hid the scars we madeWe bought the standard package, the silver-lined illusionAnd quieted the questions to avoid the deep confusion.ChorusOh, look at all the beautiful lies that we believedThe velvet-covered traps where we were so easily deceived"You gotta have it all together, you gotta play the part""The surface is what matters, don’t you worry 'bout the heart"We swallowed down the fiction, drank it till the cup was dryNow we’re standing in the wreckage of a universally accepted lie.Verse 2They said that love was like a movie, effortless and cleanA perfectly timed montage scrolling across a screenThey told us more is always better, so we piled up the stoneThen sat inside our crowded rooms, completely on our ownWe stared into the glowing glass to see how we compareAnd trusted an algorithm to tell us if we’re there.ChorusOh, look at all the beautiful lies that we believedThe velvet-covered traps where we were so easily deceived"You gotta have it all together, you gotta play the part""The surface is what matters, don’t you worry 'bout the heart"We swallowed down the fiction, drank it till the cup was dryNow we’re standing in the wreckage of a universally accepted lie.BridgeLie number one: "You’re the only one who’s breaking."Lie number two: "All this gold is ours for the taking."They said the truth would hurt too much, so we preferred the sleepBut a comfortable cage is still a promise we shouldn't keep.