[Intro]  
Wake up, loading screen glow on my face  
Pixel sky, but my heart still keeps this pace  
「はじまりだ」 a whisper in my ear  
Press start, new life, but the fear feels real here  

[Verse 1]  
Burned-out kid with a backlog, no sleep  
Deadlines, blue light, falling into screens too deep  
Then the world went black, dragged into the code  
Now I’m barefoot in the grass on a low-res road  

HUD in my eyes, stats hang in the air  
HP, MP, but I still taste despair  
Quest text blinking like a neon scar  
“Save this world” — that’s already too far  

[Pre-Chorus]  
I know, I know, it’s cliché as hell  
Transmigrate, level up, break the spell  
But this ain’t wish-fulfill, easy-mode play  
When you bleed in 8-bit, it doesn’t fade away  

[Chorus]  
Game over isn’t just a screen tonight  
These wounds don’t vanish in a soft reset of light  
I swing my sword, hear a rock guitar cry  
“Ganbare, keep going,” as the sparks fly  
If this is just code, then why do I ache?  
If this is a dream, why don’t I wake?  
I’m trapped in a story I used to escape  
Living, dying, leveling up in this game  

[Verse 2]  
First town, NPCs with their cardboard lines  
“Hero, please,” all their practiced whines  
But behind their eyes there’s a glitching flame  
Like they know they’re stuck in somebody’s game  

I farm slimes, watch the numbers climb  
Crit flash, tiny hit of joy in time  
But every ding, every new skill learned  
Feels like a chain on the life I burned  

[Chorus]  
Game over isn’t just a joke to spam  
I block, I parry
If this is a script, who’s writing my fate?  
If I mash start, can I still escape?  
I’m stuck in a legend that’s wearing my name  
Living, dying, leveling up in this game  

[Bridge]  
Stage lights flare like circles on stone  
The villain smiles with eyes like glass  
“Player, puppet, which role do you pass?”  

I see my face in his crimson blade  
He laughs, “You came here to run from your pain  
So I built you a world where it all feels the same”  

バカだな I whisper to the sky  
You can’t pause life, you can only try  
So I break his script with an off-beat line  
“This story is mine, not your design”  

[Breakdown]  
Rock chords crash with the system’s roar  
HP low, can’t feel my hands anymore  
Combo, cancel, limit break scream  
Frame-perfect step through a shattered dream  

[Chorus]  
Game over isn’t how this tale will end  
I tear my fate from the dialogue tree  
“Jibun no michi,” I choose to be free  
If this is my cage, I’ll redraw the frame  
No longer a hero on somebody’s page  
I’m writing my life past the loading stage  

[Outro]  
Screen fades white, but my heartbeat stays  
No restart button, just messy days  
If I wake or not, it’s all the same  

So if you hear my voice in the interface rain  
Remember: behind every avatar’s a vein  
Press start, but don’t forget your name  
Outside, inside, we’re more than the game