Nobody Knows How It Feels

[Verse 1]
Quiet room
Ceiling stain I trace again
Every bone
Feels older than my age
Phone face down
Same four walls
Same stale air
Every breath
A secret I can’t share
[Chorus]
Nobody knows how it feels
When your own skin fits like steel
When every step
Is dragging chains you can’t see
Left in the dark of the day
Smiling
Just acting okay
But nobody
Nobody knows how it feels
[Verse 2]
Coffee cold
On the table since last night
Heavy hands
Can’t lift this tired frame
I laugh on cue
For the people who drop by
They never stay
Long enough to see the cracks
[Chorus]
Nobody knows how it feels
When your own skin fits like steel
When every step
Is dragging chains you can’t see
Left in the dark of the day
Smiling
Just acting okay
But nobody
Nobody knows how it feels
[Bridge]
If you could wear this weight
For a minute
Just one day (just one day)
You’d never say “you’re strong”
You’d finally say “you’re breaking”
[Chorus]
Nobody knows how it feels
When your own skin fits like steel
When every step
Is dragging chains you can’t see
Left in the dark of the day
Smiling
Just acting okay
But nobody
(yeah, nobody)
Nobody knows how it feels

folk, Sparse fingerpicked acoustic guitar and aching solo violin, male vocals close and intimate, almost whispered in the verses. Tempo slow, with subtle swells into a wider, rawer chorus where the violin takes a plaintive counter-melody. Low, warm bass underneath in the second half, vocal doubles on key chorus lines for extra weight, ending on a fragile, nearly a capella outro line., sad, deep, acoustic, violin, vocal