[Verse 1]
Braces cut my lip in math class
Side bangs
Crooked like my grades
Cried in dad’s old Honda Civic
Over someone who forgot my name
Posters peeling on the drywall
Dreams scribbled in a spiral spine
Every rumor felt like sirens
Every hallway felt like boss design
[Pre-Chorus]
We were leveling up
In off-brand shoes
Heart at 1 HP
Still pushing through
Now we’re looking back
Like
“Was that me?”
Screenshot scars
For the victory
[Chorus]
Achievement unlocked (we survived)
All the bad cuts
Bathroom cries
Every mini-boss in a letterman jacket
Every late-night panic
“Can I hack it?”
We hit save point
Still alive
Turn the volume up
We’re high-fiving our lives
Achievement unlocked
We survived
We survived
[Verse 2]
Shaky eyeliner
Crooked coffee
Fake IDs that looked too real
Texting novels
Typing “sorry”
Then deleting how we really feel
Cap and gown felt paper-thin then
Like the costume of someone brave
Didn’t know that walking awkward
Still can walk you out the cave
[Pre-Chorus]
We were side quest kids
In the main plot halls
Breaking every rule
Just to feel tall
Now we read those notes
Like old cheat sheets
All that cringe
Turned to concrete
[Chorus]
Achievement unlocked (we survived)
All the jump scares
All the nights
Every bedroom breakdown
Shouting at the ceiling
Every “I’m fine” while we’re not really healing
We hit save point
Still alive
Turn the speakers up
We’re high-fiving our lives
Achievement unlocked
We survived
We survived (hey!)
[Bridge]
Here’s to every “what am I doing?”
Every bathroom mirror pep talk rant
Here’s to every almost-ruin
That proved
Yeah
Actually
We can
Raise your chipped-up trophy hearts
To the kids we used to be
They were grinding in the dark
So we could play in color
Free
[Chorus]
Achievement unlocked (we survived)
All the bad cuts
Bathroom cries
Every mini-boss in a letterman jacket
Every late-night panic
“Can I hack it?”
We hit save point
Still alive
Turn the volume up
We’re high-fiving our lives
Achievement unlocked
We survived
We survived
We survived (woah)
Achievement unlocked
We survived