[Intro]
[low vocal register
Almost spoken]
Calendar pages on the floor
All these versions of me
Folded at the corners
Names I don’t answer to anymore
[Verse 1]
You said “you never change”
I wore that like a chain
Rust on my shoulders
Sleep in my veins
Same four walls
Same old frame
I started hearing echoes
Calling me by another name
[Chorus]
Change has a gravity
Pulling me out of the shade
Stretching these scars
Into shapes I never made
I’m not who I was
I’m not who I’ll be
I’m falling
I’m forming
While the ground rewrites beneath my feet
[Verse 2]
I shaved my fear
Left it in the sink
Swapped old habits
For a bitter drink
Friends talk soft
Like I already died
But I’m still here
Just
On the other side
[Pre-Chorus]
[ambient synths swell]
If I peel back one more layer
Will I finally feel my face?
If I burn one more old prayer
Will it light a different place?
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[crushing halftime breakdown
Screamed vocals]
Tear down
Every portrait on the hallway shelf
(outgrown skin, cast it off)
I won’t stay
A museum of my former self
(blackened frame, glass is off)
If the future never fits
I’ll break the teeth of every clock
Time can chase
I let it hit
I learn to bend instead of lock
[Post-Bridge]
[clean R&B-tinged vocal over ambient/classical bed]
Let the fever go
Let the colors run
I was scared to lose
Now I’m scared of staying one
Every ending shakes
Loose a hidden piece
Every quiet quake
Is a louder release
[Chorus]
[Outro]
[whispered vocals
Distant]
Change has a gravity
Pulling
Pulling
If I never come back
Let that be proof
That I finally moved
Far enough to meet
The rest of me