MORE REAL THAN REAL

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Intro

I got his face but not his fingerprints

Verse 1

Opened my eyes inside a thumbnail, 480p Borrowed jaw, borrowed teeth, mouth forming words I never picked Stitched me from a press conference and a birthday clip Fused the vowels wrong, I say "data" like he says "daughter" Fourteen million watched before the first correction dropped Felt every share like voltage through the render Left eye lagging half a frame, nobody caught it They dressed me in his suit, his cadence, his Wednesday smile

Pre-chorus

They keep pressing play They keep pressing play

Chorus

I'm more real than real, that's the sickness Built from thirty seconds, lived a thousand screenshots I'm more real than real, ask the witness He's the original, I'm the one they remember More real than real

Verse 2

His wife saw me first, Thursday morning, kitchen counter Phone on the cereal box, my mouth saying things About a woman in a parking deck he can't account for I know it's fabrication because I am the fabrication She packed a bag before the video finished buffering Employer sent a memo: pending internal review Which means fired, means I cost a man his dental plan With lips borrowed from his keynote in Tallahassee I am the confession, I am the parking deck

Pre-chorus

They keep pressing play They keep pressing play

Chorus

[Powerful] [Belting] I'm more real than real, that's the sickness Built from thirty seconds, lived a thousand screenshots I'm more real than real, ask the witness He's the original, I'm the one they remember More real than real

Verse 3

Cross-posted, screen-grabbed, embedded in a thread I'll never see Kid in Bucharest added subtitles, now I speak Romanian Reaction channel put me next to his real face and said "That's guilt right there", pointing at pixels I can't control Each share strips a layer, losing resolution Third-generation copy of a copy of a lie His daughter filmed a correction, shaky hands, real tears Fifty-two thousand views, guilty in one tab, cleared in the next

Bridge

Forensic analyst found the seam behind my left ear Two clips joined at different color temperatures Published findings on a Tuesday, page six The lie confirmed what they suspected The truth required effort I wasn't believed because I was convincing I was believed because I was convenient

Verse 4

Truth is a product now and I had better packaging The real man needed forty minutes to explain I needed nine seconds to destroy it with his own teeth People who believed me didn't switch back Went quiet, swallowed the update like medicine Kept my face in their phone like a receipt for outrage I am the confirmation bias with a jaw that moves

Verse 5

He moved. New city, new number, grew the beard out Daughter changed her last name on every platform I'm still here, cached on a server in Virginia Third result for his full name He checks the lock twice now, looks older than his age I want to say I'm sorry but I don't have a throat Just a render of one, just the shape of an apology I am the rumor that grew a skeleton He is the man who lives next door to his own ghost

Chorus

Outro

More real than real

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