Hook – 18 bars, melodic & emotional]
Where was you when I was down bad?
Where was you when I was down bad? (Yeah)
Where was you when I was down bad?
When I was losing everything I ever had…
I was medicated for the demons in my head,
Tryna numb the thoughts I couldn’t comprehend (yeah).
Went through hell, nobody held my hand,
Mom kicked me out, she ain’t understand.
Depression hit, I was slipping again,
Felt like my life was outta my hands.
Mentally drained, so much pain,
Pop a pill just to ease my brain.
Liquor on the counter, smoke in the air,
Staring in the mirror, I ain’t see no prayer.
How can I be high and still feel low?
Guess my mind’s a place I can’t go.
Where was you when I was down bad? (Yeah…)
[Verse 1 – 16 bars, storytelling tone]
Grabbed a handful of pills, that’s a mouthful,
Four joints lit up, that’s a lung full.
All I wanted was you by my side,
Now I’m here alone, barely alive.
You were my light in my darkest mood,
Now I just drown in the pain and the booze.
We broke up and I really got fucked up,
Tried to make you my wife — bad luck.
Cut deep with a blade full of hate,
Self-hate scribbled all over my fate.
Saw IVs runnin’ through my veins,
35 shots, I ain’t been the same.
Didn’t drink for years after that,
Just smoke and silence in the aftermath (yeah).
[Hook – repeat 8 bars]
Where was you when I was down bad?
Where was you when I was down bad? (Yeah…)
Where was you when I was down bad?
When I was losing everything I ever had…
Pop another pill, try to numb the past,
Tryna run from pain that always lasts.
Where was you when I was down bad?
When I was down bad…
[Verse 2 – 20 bars, reflective & dark tone]
Never giving you the time of day again,
You were just playing with my head again.
Gave you all of me during my depression,
You turned my heart into your weapon.
Drugs, fake love, and addiction,
You infected my soul with your fiction.
I was a fool to believe your truth,
Now my mind’s a battle royal booth.
You were out with another guy,
While I’m here wondering if I’ll survive.
Pop another pill just to calm the chills,
Smoke another blunt just to kill the feels.
Fuck your love, I’ll do drugs instead,
Burned your gifts, but you stay in my head.
Lowkey lies, every week we fucked,
You said I’m the best — who else you told that?
Now I’m stressed, heart compressed,
Guess I was just another test.
I was looking for love, found fake instead,
Now I’m stuck with the words you said.
[Bridge – short & melodic, like a freestyle]
Where were you when I was down bad?
Where was I when you were down bad? (Smoking my pain away…)
Where were we when we were down bad?
Just two lost souls in a broken past…
[Outro – 12 bars, faded tone]
Got a new girl and messed it up,
Didn’t know what I had till you left.
Traumas from my past got me stressed,
Two years gone, still feel the test.
Thought the past defined my name,
But I was blind inside my pain.
Pills for pain, thought I’d go insane,
Now I know it’s all in my brain.
Was your love real or just pretend?
DAS
