[Intro]
Yeah
Look
I was down bad, down bad
She was right there
[Verse 1]
Woke up to the same four walls
Past due bills, missed calls
Mama say "pray," bro say "grind"
Voice in my head say "you outta time"
Cold floor, ramen on the stove top
Heart heavy like a cinder block
Everybody talk about the climb up
But they never there when you get your mind stuck
Dark days, I was fighting inner demons
Outside smiling, inside I was screaming
Whole hood throwing they advice at me
But they never spend a long night with me
She did
Sat still while I vented my sins
Tears on her shirt, I was breaking again
She ain't flinch when I told her what I been through
That’s when I knew what I got ain't simple
[Chorus]
She hold me down when this life too much
When I feel that weight, she the one I trust
World so cold, I been numb to touch
But her arms feel safe when it all get rough
Yeah, the pain run deep, I don't say too much
But she read my eyes when I'm acting tough
When I'm ’bout to break, when I'm outta luck
She the one, she the one that lift me up
[Verse 2]
Court dates, letters from the landlord
Cousin in the ground, what I stand for?
Trauma in my chest like a landmine
One wrong word, I explode, cross the damn line
I was in the kitchen with the lights off
Thinking 'bout the ledge and the nightfall
Thinking 'bout the homies that ain't come back
Thinking if I leave, who gon' love that?
Phone buzz, it's her, "you ate yet?"
Voice note, little laugh, say "I stayed checked"
Pulled up, bag full of cheap food
But it taste like a feast when the heart good
She ain't ask for the version I pretend to be
She just sit in the silence, let it set in me
Rub my back, say "breathe, you gon' get through"
I say "how you know?" she say "I bet on you"
[Chorus]
She hold me down when this life too much
When I feel that weight, she the one I trust
World so cold, I been numb to touch
But her arms feel safe when it all get rough
Yeah, the pain run deep, I don't say too much
But she read my eyes when I'm acting tough
When I'm ’bout to break, when I'm outta luck
She the one, she the one that lift me up
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Every scar, she trace it with her fingers
Say "that mean you made it, that mean you still here"
When the shame get loud and the doubt still lingers
She turn down the noise, put her lips to my ear
"Baby, you more than the things that you been through
Storm gon' pass, I’ma sit in the rain too"
If I ever see the top, then she coming with me
Whole world on my back, but she running with me
[Chorus]