Universal Truth Part 1

Lyrics :

Hmm... yeah.
Check the frequency.
The universal signal.

It's a SMOOTH CRIME... in a digital age.
Lovin' the image... on a pixelated page.
It's a SMOOTH CRIME... everybody's playin' the part.
With a guarded soul... and a curated heart.
(Smooth crime, yeah)

Scrolling through the highlight reel, another perfect lie.
Trading depth for dopamine underneath the blue-lit sky.
They say love's a condition, based on what you can provide.
A transaction dressed in feelings that you have to hide inside.
Loyalty to emotions, shiftin' like the sand.
Buildin' empires just to watch 'em crumble in her hand.
So we build the walls up higher, silent and alone.
'Cause the purest love they offer is the kind that you can own... (a dog, a cat, a kid)

And it's a UNIVERSAL TRUTH... in a bitter, modern key.
That attention isn't love... and the best things aren't free.
It's a SMOOTH CRIME, baby, how we live and how we lie.
With a filter on the pain... and a fire in the eye.
Yeah, it's a UNIVERSAL TRUTH... written in the code.
You gotta build your peace inside... on a lonely, winding road.

It's a SMOOTH CRIME... in a digital age.
Lovin' the image... on a pixelated page.
It's a SMOOTH CRIME... everybody's playin' the part.
With a guarded soul... and a curated heart.

They want the saint, they want the sinner, want the man to be a rock.
But the second that you feel, they say you've lost the plot.
If you care too much, you're weak, if you pull back, you're cold.
A script of contradictions that's been purchased and been sold.
So we wear the mask of "fine," a Houdini of the mind.
Makin' common sense and gentle hearts so hard to ever find.
The real ones get the hatred for just pointin' at the game.
While the fakes collect the followers and fortune and the fame.

What's precious doesn't scream... it just is.
What's real doesn't vanish... in the digital abyss.
So build your core for you... let the noise just fade away.
The only love that's unconditional... is the one you choose to make... today.

It's a SMOOTH CRIME... (a universal truth)...
With a guarded soul...
And a curated heart...
Yeah...