Always Less

Verse 1

Every road I choose just fades away,

Another promise I can't seem to keep.

I watch the people I was meant to save,

While I sink further, buried underneath.

Every hand that reached for mine in pain,

Deserved somebody stronger than me.

I gave them all the little that I had,

But little never sets anybody free.

Pre-Chorus

I'm always one step late,

Always one breath short,

Trying to carry worlds

With shoulders that distort.

Chorus

I'm a failure at everything I try,

Watching better people pass me by.

No matter how I climb, I never reach the top,

I just keep falling where the stronger never drop.

When somebody needs me, I somehow let them down,

Another silent king without a crown.

No matter what I give, it never seems enough,

Maybe I was never made for this at all.

Verse 2

I compare myself to everyone I see,

They make it look so effortless somehow.

They build up lives while I just patch the cracks,

Wondering why I can't become them now.

Every mirror tells the same old lie,

Or maybe it's the only truth I know.

No matter how much harder that I push,

I'm standing still while everyone else grows.

Bridge

If I disappeared tomorrow,

Would the weight be easier to bear?

Would someone stronger take my place,

And finally give the love that's there?

I'm tired of being almost enough,

Of living just outside the light.

A shadow standing next to giants,

Always losing every fight.

Final Chorus

I'm a failure at everything I do,

Always chasing someone I can't live up to.

The more I try to fix the hurt, the more it slips away,

Leaving me with words I never found to say.

I'm never quite the answer, never who they need,

Always watching someone else succeed.

So if this is all I'll ever be,

A lesson in what not to become,

I'll carry all the blame alone...

Until the day my voice is gone.

Outro

Maybe some hearts are born to shine,

And some just learn to break.

I've spent my life trying to be enough...

Still wondering what that would take.