Forty-Two Candles

[Intro-Sad Guitar strings]

[Verse 1]
Forty-two candles on the cake
And all I feel is heartache
Feeling like an absolute failure
Wishing for a more stable picture
With keys to my own place
Instead of this bedroom being my hiding space

Hearing the striking hands so loudly on the clock
[Drum-TICKTOCK, TICKTOCK]
So heavy in the silence I hear a knock

[Chorus]
Forty-two, no place to call my own
With no job set in stone
The days and nights blur into one
This web of doubt quickly spun

[Verse 2]
With each hour comes the fear
The rising torment like a spear
Am I at the point of no return?
Or can I shatter this pattern?

Got to find the strength to rise above the flames
Start listening to the voice that rejects these claims

[Chorus]
Forty-two, no place to call my own
With no job set in stone
The days and nights blur into one
This web of doubt quickly spun

[Bridge]
I’ve got to fight another day
Rise above the ashes to slay
Forty-two is my new dawn
New goals to spawn

[Chorus]
Forty-two, a prayer for a new beginning
All the doubt and failure diminishing
Forty-two trips around the sun
And my story has just begun

[Outro]
My story isn’t over inked on my wrist
The weight of depression I can resist
With God’s help I will arise
I’m ready for the reprise

[Chorus]
Forty-two, a prayer for a new beginning
All the doubt and failure diminishing
Forty-two trips around the sun
And my story has just begun

Alternative, indie rock, moody. Melancholic, breathy male vocals.