Hearing Voices

A team of psychologists at UNSW Sydney has uncovered the most compelling evidence so far that hearing voices in schizophrenia may result from the brain’s inability to recognize its own internal speech. 

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Verse 1

I walk through rooms of whispering shadows

The echoes float around, I don't know if they're mine

My mind tries to speak, then deafened by confusion

The voice inside me rises, but I hear it as a sign

Pre-Chorus

Because when I think the sound, the brain should know the tone

In healthy minds the silence falls, the signal's found its home

But in this restless circuitry, the prediction fails to stand

And what was mine becomes a stranger's hand

Chorus

Hearing voices, inside my head they roam

Hearing voices, a language I once called home

When I speak to myself, the sound becomes unknown

Hearing voices, I'm haunted by my own

Verse 2

They say the inner voice should fade when I imagine speaking

But mine rebounds in louder waves, a truth I'm forced to face

The brain's alarm rings out for what it thinks is external

Not the script I penned, but a stranger's face

Pre-Chorus

In someone else's ears I hear the words I wrote

My inner narrative becomes a ghost I cannot know

The mechanism that guards the self slips under shifting sand

And what belongs to me slips through my hands

Chorus

Hearing voices, inside my head they roam

Hearing voices, a language I once called home

When I speak to myself, the sound becomes unknown

Hearing voices, I'm haunted by my own

Bridge

If I could rewrite the map that guides the silent sound

Rebuild the gate between the mind and what is found

Maybe then the voice I know will just be mine alone

And the halls of confusion won't feel like home

Chorus (repeat)

Hearing voices, inside my head they roam

Hearing voices, a language I once called home

When I speak to myself, the sound becomes unknown

Hearing voices, I'm haunted by my own

Outro

I'll listen for the moment when the silent becomes clear

When the voice inside aligns and I control what I hear

Until that moment comes I'll face the unknown

Hearing voices, I'll make that journey on my own