[Intro]
Read this slowly…
Like it’s the last real thing
I ever said
[Verse 1]
I still go to work
Still answer calls
Still force a laugh
Through these empty halls
Nobody guessed
Behind my eyes
I spent every drive home
Wanting to disappear at night
That’s the strange part
The world moves on
While a soul falls apart
Everything keeps spinning
While somebody decides
They can’t survive
Their own mind
[Pre-Chorus]
And I tried…
God, I tried
To be enough
For everyone in my life
[Hook]
Read this slowly
Because I’m scared
Nobody heard me
While I was here
Every smile was survival
Every joke hid pain
I got so good at looking alive
Nobody noticed
I was fading away
[Verse 2]
I’m tired in places
Sleep can’t reach
Carrying pressure
So long it buried me deep
Tired of being needed
But never truly known
Standing in crowded rooms
Still feeling alone
There are people I love
More than my own breath
And somehow
That still wasn’t enough
To save me from myself
[Bridge]
Maybe that makes me selfish
Maybe broken inside
But pain changes shape
When it’s buried alive
And after so many years
Of fighting this war
The dark stopped feeling frightening
It just felt quiet anymore
[Final Hook]
So read this slowly
Like these words matter now
Like you finally hear me
Somehow
I never wanted attention
I just wanted peace
One moment where the noise
Inside my head
Finally ceased
[Outro]
Tell my son
I never stopped loving him
Tell my wife
I fought harder than she thinks
And if anyone asks
When I started fading away
Tell them
It happened slowly
Right in front of everyone
Goodbye