[Verse 1]
Used to count grades
Now I count graves
Yearbook faces
Turn to last names
Group chat dead
But the thread still there
Scroll through ghosts
In a folding chair
Photos tagged
But the bodies missing
Moms in black
At a church still wishing
We were just kids
With the same clear skin
Now we track time
By who ain’t check in
[Chorus]
Fifteen funerals, one each year
Candles on the curb, mother’s tears
Whole world broken, nobody cares
We just pour a little out, send a little prayer
Fifteen funerals, lost my fear
Heaven getting crowded, they all there
If I make it out, sing it loud, I swear
Fifteen funerals, one each year
[Verse 2]
He took pills
Just to feel less empty
She hit lines
Till her nose felt friendly
He got hit
On his way back home
Wrong place
Right bullet, that’s all
Screens light up
But the streets stay dark
Heart emojis
For a stopped heart
We post sad songs
Then we swipe to memes
Grief on loop
In a blue-lit screen
[Beat drops quiet, melody almost gone]
[Bridge]
You ever stare at your class pic long
Counting who ain’t here, who gone?
You ever hear your own laugh in a vid
With a friend you’ll never text again?
They say “grow up”
But they don’t say how
When every damn year
Is a body down
I used to plan
What I’d be at thirty
Now I just hope
Thirty doesn’t hurt me
[Beat slams back in]
[Chorus]