Cardboard Kingdom (full version)

Описание: Music and Video: AI-assisted composition by M.A.M.I.-Music. © 2026 M.A.M.I.-Music.

This song and the lyrics were created with the help of AI, but also with a lot of human heart, human mind, and human creativity. AI served only as a tool to help me artistically realize my ideas the way I imagined them. I hope you enjoy it. I would be very happy to receive your comments.

[Verse 1]
Got a throne on the corner
Milk crate
Midnight air
Got a crown in this backpack
Couple shirts
One busted chair
Sky for a ceiling
Street for a last name
Say I sleep where I want to
Like I planned it this way

[Chorus]
I call it freedom
When the night’s my only roof
Say I don’t need ’em
Those four walls and family photos
I call it freedom
When I’m walking on my own
But every word I’m singing
Hides a hunger to go home

[Verse 2]
Got a river in the gutter
Stars in a puddle stain
I toast with a paper cup
To being brave
To being strange
Say I’m light as a feather
Nobody tying me down
Laugh with the passing strangers
Till the echoes are the only sound

[Chorus]
I call it freedom
When the night’s my only roof
Say I don’t need ’em
Those four walls and family photos
I call it freedom
When I’m walking on my own
But every word I’m singing
Hides a hunger to go home

[Bridge]
Sometimes I name the windows
As I walk past warm glass
Pretend they’re old friends waving
As if they’d let me in at last
I tell myself this cardboard
Is a castle I designed
But it’s quiet in this kingdom
When you’re the only one inside (oh)

[Chorus]
I call it freedom
Till the truth cuts through the song
I’ve been out here talking brave
’Cause I’ve been out here too long
I call it freedom
But the story’s getting old
I’m just a lonely man still dreaming
Of a key
A door
A hand to hold