Halfway Gone

• [Pulsing synth bass

• Minimal drums

• Echoed guitar or piano

• Atmospheric reverb]

• [Verses: calm but emotionally distant

• Chorus: melodic, haunting

• Bridge: stripped back, almost empty]

[Late-night driving.

Streetlights passing.

Not knowing where you’re going.]

I’m not the kid I used to be

But I’m not who I wanna be

I’m stuck somewhere in between

Like a ghost in my own dreams

I wake up, I go to work

I laugh sometimes, but it still hurts

Feels like life keeps moving fast

While I’m standing in the past

I didn’t fall, I didn’t fly

I just stopped trying to decide

I’m halfway gone, halfway here

Half my heart, half my fear

Half of me is holding on

The other half is moving on

I’m halfway gone, halfway strong

I don’t know where I belong

I’m not lost, but not okay

I’m just drifting day to day

I see my friends build their lives

Dreams, families, bigger plans

And I’m just trying to survive

With what I got in my hands

I don’t envy, I don’t hate

I just wish I felt the same

Like I wasn’t so delayed

Like I wasn’t so afraid

I didn’t fall, I didn’t fly

I just stopped trying to decide

I’m halfway gone, halfway here

Half my heart, half my fear

Half of me is holding on

The other half is moving on

I’m halfway gone, halfway strong

I don’t know where I belong

I’m not lost, but not okay

I’m just drifting day to day

Maybe this is part of change

Maybe this is just the pain

Before I learn to let it go

Before I find a way back home

I’m halfway gone, but I still breathe

Still got something inside of me

Maybe I’m not who I was

But maybe that’s who I’m meant to become