🔻 Song Insight

“World Worn With Gray” is a nu-metal/rap-rock anthem that rips the mask off a society drowning in lies, fake smiles, and broken promises. The track blends stomping rap verses, chant-heavy choruses, and raw crowd call-backs, channeling frustration into a cinematic wall of sound. It’s both a release and a rebellion — a declaration that the world’s toxicity won’t be hidden anymore. The song’s energy is defiant, aggressive, but also unifying, inviting listeners to shout back against the chaos.

🔻 Lyrics

Intro
Sirens screamin’ — city bleedin’
C’mon! You feel that? (Yeah!)

Chorus
It’s a fucked world (what!) — everyone’s fake (yeah!)
Every smile’s just another mistake (c’mon!)
Done with fakin’ (uh!) — done with the scene (yeah!)
Rip the mask off — show what you mean (what!)

Verse 1
Fake grins (uh!) / dead stares (yeah!)
Smoke thick (what!) / don’t care
Headlines twist / truth dismissed
Fuck that noise / same old shit

Want the real? (what!) — it’s all disguise
No real love in a world of lies
What’s lost? (uh!) — what’s gained? (yeah!)
Ain’t no middle ground these days

Chorus
It’s a fucked world (what!) — everyone’s fake (yeah!)
Every smile’s just another mistake (c’mon!)
Done with fakin’ (uh!) — done with the scene (yeah!)
Rip the mask off — show what you mean (what!)

Verse 2
Secrets deep / money talks
Fake love walks / leaves scars
I don’t fold (no!) — I don’t break (nah!)
Heart stone cold — still awake

People rot (what!) — fade away (yeah!)
Roaches crawl at the break of day
Dreams get sold / truth on lease
Ain’t no savin’ — no release

Chorus
It’s a fucked world (what!) — everyone’s fake (yeah!)
Every smile’s just another mistake (c’mon!)
Done with fakin’ (uh!) — done with the scene (yeah!)
Rip the mask off — show what you mean (what!)

Bridge
Hope’s a drug (uh!) — another lie (yeah!)
Prayers don’t work when the real ones die (c’mon!)
Dreams on pause / bombs overhead
No fairy tale — just death instead

Breakdown
Cancel posts — hashtags bleed
Money talks while the broke can’t feed
N.D.A.’s — secrets sold
Fuck your system — truth gets cold

Chorus – Final
It’s a fucked world (say what!) — everyone’s fake (yeah!)
Every smile’s just another mistake (c’mon!)
Done with fakin’ (uh!) — done with the scene (yeah!)
Rip the mask off — show what you mean (what!)

Outro
Let the mask go (yeah!)
Let the mask go (c’mon!)
Show what you mean…

🔻 Personal Reflection

This song was born out of frustration — not just personal betrayal, but the bigger picture of living in a world that feels manufactured. Everywhere I looked, from relationships to headlines, the truth felt twisted or sold off. Writing World Worn With Gray was my way of pushing back, of creating something people could scream with when the weight of it all gets too heavy. It’s not about hopelessness — it’s about pulling off the mask and refusing to play along.

🔻 4Me2BeFree

4Me2BeFree has always been about turning raw, unfiltered emotion into cinematic music that cuts deep and resonates wide. With World Worn With Gray, the project leans hard into nu-metal roots, bringing chant-driven rap-rock energy to a new generation. It’s a track built for volume, for catharsis, and for community — a reminder that music can transform pain into defiance, and defiance into unity.

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World Worn With Gray

Schmiede des Ewigen Zorns

Insanity

Quiet World

Come Hell or High Water

Robert Edens: Vocals
Myles Yang: Guitar
Max Harchik: Bass

Native Construct is the product of collaboration between several students that began in 2011 at the storied Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Fueled by a desire to breathe new life into the modern metal genre, Native Construct artfully blends a wide spectrum of compositional influences, ranging from classical all the way to prog metal and musical theatre. The result is a wonderfully unique sonic texture, made up of extended-range guitars, theatrical vocals, and a full complement of symphonic instrumentation. Guitarist and composer Myles Yang’s passion for innovation, coupled with his extensive academic study of arranging and compositional techniques, makes Native Construct a truly distinctive up-and-coming metal act.

In 2014, the band’s music caught the ear of Brian Slagel at Metal Blade Records, and led to a recording contract and a worldwide release of the band’s debut album, Quiet World. The album promises to be a rich, vibrant, and aurally engaging musical experience. While following a musically programmatic approach to its storytelling, the album demonstrates a fascinating unification of numerous musical styles and provides an emotional journey through the vast and imaginative world Native Construct have envisioned.

Quiet World was largely self-produced and written between 2011 and 2013 in between the individual band members’ studies at the Berklee College of Music. What began as jam sessions simply for fun eventually turned into a full-fledged musical endeavor. All tracking and programming was done at the band’s home studios in Boston, MA, with the exception of vocals, which were recorded with Jamie King at The Basement Studios in Winston-Salem, NC. The album was mixed by Rich Mouser at The Mouse House Studio in Los Angeles, CA, and mastered by Jamie King.

A brief listen to Quiet World is enough to make it apparent that there is a concept, here. Though it’s best to let the band explain the album in their own words: “Quiet World is about a guy who loves a girl. The guy is a bit of an odd and eccentric person – an outcast. He’s also a mute, and a little unstable, as it turns out. The girl doesn’t return his feelings, but he can’t bring himself to let go. As his unrequited passion for her devolves into obsession and eventual resentment, his mind begins to slip further and further away. He convinces himself that he can’t be loved because of his condition and abnormalities. So he decides to create for himself a new, fantastic world of which he has complete control – a world where there are no oddballs or outcasts. A world where everyone is surrounded by people who are just like themselves: a much quieter world.

“It’s at this point that the first track of the album, “Mute,” begins. And it turns out that many of the subjects of his new world are not as content living this way as he is. In the second track we see a new character, the Archon, rise up and unite his people in the clouds with the once distant people in the sea. He leads an opposition to “Sinister Silence,” as the people come to call him. The rest of the album unfolds with events within the “Quiet World” and manifestations of the enduring struggle between the Archon and Sinister Silence. The lone exception is track number four, “Your Familiar Face,” which steps out of this world for a moment to give a closer look at the events prior to the first track and the tragedy of Sinister Silence.“

What is impressive about Native Construct is not necessarily an involved concept on a debut record, it’s that they wrote, produced, and recorded the album while balancing school work and on a college student budget. It’s the epitome of “self produced.” And what Native Construct wants fans to know is that “the composition process for this album was intensely meticulous from top to bottom. Each note, each lyric, each twist and each turn were arrived at with the utmost care. As such, we were able to weave rich, often subtle layers of meaning into the music and text. We’re very excited for you all to experience the result of our efforts!”

Come Hell or High Water

Native Construct

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