[Verse 1]
Plastic kings
On folding thrones
Talking big
With borrowed bones
Thin skin
Thick talk
You crack when the wind gets rough
All bite in your bathroom mirror
Out here
You’re just bluff
[Chorus]
Porcelain crowns
You shatter under pressure
All that bark
But you never bring the fracture
Paper-thin hearts in a steel-boot town
You scream “I’m real!” and it all falls down
Porcelain crowns
Porcelain crowns
[Verse 2]
Thumb-war gods
In comments and complaints
Chest-beat saints
With watercolor paint
You flex in the shallow end
Afraid of the deep cold blue
You joke like it’s all a game
Till the joke turns back on you (yeah)
[Chorus]
Porcelain crowns
You shatter under pressure
All that bark
But you never bring the fracture
Paper-thin hearts in a steel-boot town
You scream “I’m real!” and it all falls down
Porcelain crowns
Porcelain crowns
[Instrumental Break – Guitar Solo 1]
[Soaring
Melodic shred over driving rhythm
Climbing into dissonant bends]
[Bridge]
Grow up or get out of my way
(hey!)
This world won’t wait for your play-by-play
You stomp your feet
I drag your throne
Across the stones
You stand there
Bare head
No crown
Just phone
[Instrumental Break – Guitar Solo 2]
[Chaotic trade-off licks over halftime breakdown
Syncopated chugs and divebombs]
[Chorus]
Porcelain crowns
You shatter under pressure
All that bark
But you never bring the fracture
Paper-thin hearts in a steel-boot town
You scream “I’m real!” and it all falls down
[Chorus]
Porcelain crowns
Your empire’s made of plaster
Every fake roar’s just echoing disaster
Paper-thin hearts
I’m tearing posters down
I walk away while you choke on that crown
Porcelain crowns
Porcelain crowns (yeah)