Numb Protocol Video (MV)

[Intro]
Cold nights, city lights, memories on replay
Father on his knees, that's the price we had to pay
System overload, feelings get delayed
Built these walls so high, keep the pain away

[Verse 1]
First they took my pops, left him bleeding on concrete
Now I'm seeing violence daily on my news feed
Zara played me cold, that's when something changed in me
Turned my heart to code, now these feelings can't reach me
Maya thinks she knows me, but I keep it surface level
Every touch calculated, yeah, I'm on that devil's schedule
Compression on my soul, filter out the bullshit
Delete these memories, format my hard drive, full clip

[Chorus]
I don't feel a thing, no more, no more
Programmed myself to shut that door
These streets taught me the score
Now I'm numb to the core, to the core
Can't break through my protocol
Emotions locked behind these walls
That's just how a player falls
Now I'm numb to it all

[Verse 2]
Downtown high-rise, living in the matrix
Every morning same shit, coffee getting wasted
Scrolling through the violence, barely even flinch now
When they pull them triggers, barely hear the clicks now
Maya trying to reach me, but I'm too far gone
Built these mechanisms back when shit went wrong
Father's blood still stains my memory files
But I compressed that pain, now it's archived

[Bridge]
Sometimes in the night, I feel it trying to break through
All these firewalls I built, yeah, they starting to shake too
But I can't let it in, man, I've seen what that shit do
So I stay calculating, that's the only way through

[Verse 3]
They say I'm too cold, but they don't know the process
How I had to learn to turn my heart to circuits
Every betrayal added layers to my system
Now I'm operating on a different wisdom
Maya's getting frustrated, says I'm too detached
But that's the protocol that keeps me intact
Father's incident, Zara's games, they taught me well
Now my emotions run through filters, can't you tell?

[Outro]
This is how we survive
In these concrete hives
Feelings quantified
Keep them locked inside
That's the protocol
Till we rise or fall
Now we're numb to it all
Yeah, we're numb to it all