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🔁 Track Name: Functioning Freak - Artist: VOX CIRCUIT - Album: Shadowproof
Genre Tags: Industrial Rock, Mental Health Rap, Spoken Word Protest, High-Functioning Stigma Anthem - Run Time: 3:40

🎧 Track Summary: “Functioning Freak” is a rebellious anthem about the cost of looking okay. Rueben Dawson (aka VOX CIRCUIT) threads together stigma realism, emotional collapse, and lyrical protest—where survival is misread as stability, and pain hides behind productivity. This track isn’t just critique—it’s confrontation.

🔍 Track Description The song opens with biting irony: “You work, you smile, you must be fine.” Rueben sets the tone for a track built on high-functioning misinterpretation and emotional exhaustion. The verses expose the disconnect between external performance and internal collapse: “I clock in with a scream / I nod through the dream.”

The chorus reframes stigma as violence: “Functioning freak / That’s what they see / But they don’t hear the war in me.” Rueben critiques the praise of resilience that ignores suffering. The second half deepens the metaphor: “I pass your test / But fail my breath / I meet your goals / While dodging death.”

The final lines are a vow: “I’m not your miracle / I’m your warning.” The track closes with ambient distortion and a fading heartbeat, echoing the sacredness of surviving while misread.

🎼 Musical Style
Industrial rock with glitch textures and spoken-word cadence
Builds from ironic tension to lyrical protest
Fusion of stigma realism and emotional truth
Inspired by lived experience and high-functioning survival

🌌 Themes
High-functioning stigma and invisible struggle
Rejection of praise that erases pain
Survival through lyrical confrontation and emotional truth
Sound as mask, lyrics as mirror

⚠️ Content Advisory: ✅ Content Advisory Required ✅ Explicit Tag Required

Why Advisory Applies:
Themes of emotional collapse, suicidal ideation, and psychiatric critique
Lyrical references to trauma, stigma, and survival under pressure
Contains explicit language and emotionally intense content
May be sensitive for listeners navigating burnout, depression, or misdiagnosis

Disclaimer: “Functioning Freak” explores themes of high-functioning stigma, emotional collapse, and psychiatric realism. Listener discretion is advised for those navigating trauma recovery or mental health sensitivity. This track is a lyrical protest—where survival is misread and truth fights back.

🎙️ Artist Pitch Welcome to VOX CIRCUIT — the sonic journal of Rueben Dawson: songwriter, producer, and survivor. Rueben lives with schizophrenia and channels his lived experience into genre-defying testimony. His music blends hard rock, mental health rap, acoustic realism, and poetic protest into a raw emotional landscape. Vocals are AI-rendered—not as disguise, but as conduit. When his voice falters, the message roars louder.

Shadowproof is the third album in the Mental Health Frontlines quadrilogy, following Code Grey and Still Rising. It’s the resilience arc—where trauma becomes armor and testimony becomes torchlight. “Functioning Freak” is the stigma track: a song for the misread, the masked, and the ones who survive while looking fine.

🧠 Mental Health | 🎭 Stigma Realism | 🎙️ Protest | 🧍 Survival
VOX CIRCUIT // One Voice. Many Battles. Shadowproof.

🌍 Support Available — You Are Not Alone
If this track resonates with your experience, please know that help is available. Whether you're navigating trauma, relational collapse, or emotional overwhelm, support exists across borders. These services are free, confidential, and open to anyone in need:
🧭 Global Directories
• Find A Helpline: 1,600+ mental health services worldwide
🔗 findahelpline.com
• HelpGuide International Directory: Crisis lines by country and theme
🔗 helpguide.org/find-help
🇦🇺 Australia
• Lifeline Australia: 13 11 14 — 24/7 crisis support
🔗 lifeline.org.au
• Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 — mental health support and resources
🔗 beyondblue.org.au
🇺🇸 United States
• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988
🔗 988lifeline.org
• Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
🔗 crisistextline.org
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
• Samaritans UK: 116 123 — 24/7 emotional support
🔗 samaritans.org
• Mind UK: Mental health education and support
🔗 mind.org.uk
🌐 Additional Support
• United for Global Mental Health: Advocacy and global resources
🔗 unitedgmh.org/support
• TherapyRoute Directory: Suicide hotlines and crisis lines worldwide
🔗 therapyroute.com

💬 This track is a lyrical bridge. If you’re standing on the edge, reach out. You deserve support, safety, and connection.
🕊️ Healing is not a solo act. It was never just you

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