Flat Fake

You built a shallow copy Thin as cheap laminate Compressed till the edges blur Cut down to fit the frame Profile with a pasted grin Plastic pose, same dead stare It talks in borrowed pieces But it never got the wear Scan it, strip it, package it Flatten all the weight But you can't squeeze down the damage Or the years I had to take I am the real skin under pixels I am the hurt that stays Your copy never bleeds, never bleeds Just a flat fake in place Scars don't upload, scars don't upload They stay where they were made I am the real skin under pixels And I won't be erased The file's too clean, too tidy No bruise, no trembling hand No sleepless teeth in the jawline No mud from where I stand You shaved me into easy Made me safe for the feed But my name still drags through concrete With the weight you tried to leave Clip it, crop it, simplify it Make it fit the screen But the parts you call imperfections Are the only parts that's me I am the real skin under pixels I am the hurt that stays Your copy never bleeds, never bleeds Just a flat fake in place Scars don't upload, scars don't upload They stay where they were made I am the real skin under pixels And I won't be erased You can keep the polished version The one that never shakes I kept the dents, the pressure The marks that time makes No neat little clone can carry What the hard years gave I'm made of the damage, the dirt, the strain The living, the raw, the unchained I am the real skin under pixels I am the hurt that stays Your copy never bleeds, never bleeds Just a flat fake in place Scars don't upload, scars don't upload They stay where they were made I am the real skin under pixels And I won't be erased Shallow copy Compressed file Real skin under pixels I won't be erased