(Intro — whispered, distant)
Yeah…
I been down bad…
But I’m climbin’ out…
Listen…
(Verse 1 — slow, emotional)
I was runnin’ through the nights with the wrong crowd,
Smokin’ just to feel something, cloud after cloud.
Drinkin’ just to shut up all the voices in my mind,
Every bottle like a battle I was losin’ every time.
Car-hoppin’, thinkin’ that the world owed me somethin’,
Cold hands, dark streets, heart steady thumpin’.
Hit my first lick, thought I finally found a way,
But the guilt stayed stuck like a stain on my brain.
(Beat echoes — soft humming)
Mmm… yeah…
But I changed, I changed…
(Hook — stretched, melodic)
I had to grow, had to fight just to breathe again,
Had to cut off all the smoke just to see again.
Had to pour out every bottle just to think again,
Had to walk away from demons just to dream again.
Reverb in my soul like ooooh, ooooh,
Tellin’ me to rise like ooooh, ooooh.
Not the same one I was before…
I’m not the same one I was before…
(Verse 2 — faster, confessional)
Used to wake up with regret in my chest,
Feelin’ heavy like the world had a hand on my neck.
Everybody that I hurt, every line I crossed,
Every night I threw away just scared of loss.
But I had to look inside and decide who I’d be,
Had to burn my old past just to finally feel free.
No smoke in my lungs, no drink in my veins,
Now I’m breakin’ those chains that were locked in my brain.
I ain’t runnin’ from the light, I ain’t hidin’ from the pain,
Yeah I walked through the fire, now I dance in the rain.
Every scar on my heart is a sign I survived,
Every stumble in the dark taught me how to stay alive.
(Hook — extended, echoing)
I had to grow, had to fight just to breathe again,
Had to cut off all the smoke just to see again.
Had to pour out every bottle just to think again,
Had to walk away from demons just to dream again.
Reverb in my soul like ooooh, ooooh,
Tellin’ me to rise like ooooh, ooooh.
Not the same one I was before…
I’m not the same one I was before…
(Outro — soft, fading)
Yeah…
New life… new breath… new soul…
I ain’t goin’ back…
No, I ain’t goin’ back…
ShaDae
