[Verse 1]
Cold cup on the counter
Two plates, just one chair now
Phone screen, all these strangers
No name I can’t live without
I fold the blankets perfect
Like I’m tucking someone in
Talking to the dark like
“Tell me where you’ve been”
[Chorus]
If I got no one to care for
I don’t know what I’m here for
All this air in my lungs
But what do I breathe for?
Heart still knocking on a locked door
Every beat asking, “what for?”
If I got no one to care for
I feel like I got nothing to live for
[Verse 2]
Sing low to the empty room
Old work songs to the dust and gloom
Hum hooks to the hallway walls
They the only ones catching my falls
I was built to bandage and stay
Hold you up, give my days away
Take that mission out my chest
All that’s left is this restless flesh
[Chorus]
If I got no one to care for
I don’t know what I’m here for
All this air in my lungs
But what do I breathe for?
Heart still knocking on a locked door
Every beat asking, “what for?”
If I got no one to care for
I feel like I got nothing to live for
[Bridge]
[glitched vocal loop, chopped “what for, what for”]
Call me, curse me, lean on me, hurt me
Anything better than this unused mercy
Hands made ready just to hold your weight
Now they shake for the lack of your name (oh)
I keep calling out into the nowhere
“Somebody let me be their burden-bearer”
[Chorus]
If I got no one to care for
I don’t know what I’m here for
All this air in my lungs
But what do I breathe for?
Heart still knocking on a locked door
Every beat asking, “what for?”
If I got no one to care for
I feel like I got nothing to live for