static

(Hook)

There’s static in my skull, it won’t turn down

Every smile I fake just cracks somehow

They say “you good?” — I nod, don’t make a sound

But it’s loud… so loud… so loud

There’s static in my skull, it won’t behave

Digging little trenches in my brain

If you could hear the things it says

You’d be afraid… be afraid…

(Verse 1)

I wake up with a thousand voices brushing my teeth

One of ’em calm, the other one telling me “leave”

One say “breathe,” one say “why even try?”

One laughs while the other one’s ready to die

I sit at the edge of the bed like a glitch

Hands on my face like “boy, you sick”

But I look in the mirror and it look back strange

Like it know my secrets and it like that pain

I joke too dark, they don’t catch the hint

They laugh, but I meant every word I print

Got a carnival mind with a blackout grin

Welcome to the funhouse I’m trapped within

They say “just pray,” they say “just cope”

They say “have faith,” they say “have hope”

But hope don’t work when the walls got teeth

And the floor start moving underneath

I ain’t evil, I just ain’t quiet

Got a storm upstairs startin’ riots

If sanity’s thin, then mine’s on sale

Half off — cracked — slightly derailed

(Hook)

(Verse 2)

I tried duct-taping my thoughts shut tight

But they chew right through in the middle of night

Got shadows that sit in the passenger seat

They don’t say much but they love front-row seats

I’ll be in the store just buyin’ some bread

And a whisper say “drop everything, run instead”

I blink real quick and I shake my head

“Man, you trippin’.” — yeah, that’s what I said

I ain’t violent, don’t twist my words

I just feel like I’m followed by invisible birds

Peckin’ at the soft spots in my chest

Buildin’ little nests outta stress

I laugh too loud at the wrong damn time

Make folks uncomfortable — that’s fine

’Cause if I don’t laugh I might just crack

And I ain’t tryna show what’s under that

Got secrets folded in origami

Sharp little edges, don’t try to palm me

You see a man — you don’t see the war

Or the thousand fingerprints on the inside door

(hook)

(Verse 3 – more aggressive, chaotic flow)

I scribble in notebooks, pages bent

Ink look possessed, like it came and went

Like something grabbed my wrist real tight

Said “write this down or we fight tonight”

I don’t need meds, I need quiet space

But silence echoes in my face

And when it’s quiet, it get worse instead

’Cause that’s when the loud live in my head

I ain’t your villain, I ain’t your freak

I just don’t function the way you speak

I see colors when you see gray

I feel earthquakes on sunny days

They say “man up,” I say “I try”

But tough don’t fix what’s cracked inside

You can’t duct tape a broken mind

And call that strength just ’cause it’s quiet

So if I twitch or drift mid-talk

Or laugh when I shouldn’t, or freeze mid-walk

Just know I’m wrestling something deep

While y’all sleep… while y’all sleep

(hook 2x)( loud, harsh, aggressive, fade out)