[Intro] (Soft Male Voice)
Yeah…
I’m here… but I’m fading…
Can anybody hear me?
[Verse 1] (Male Voice)
Sitting in a room full of people that I love,
Still feel invisible, staring at the floor above.
Smiling for the pictures, laughing on cue,
Nobody sees the war that I’m quietly losing to.
I answer, “I’m alright,” like it’s second nature,
Building bigger walls, every day’s a little safer.
Not from pain… but from letting people see,
That the loudest prison’s always living inside of me.
I’m so tired of pretending that my heart still beats the same,
Every single morning feels like carrying my name.
I’m alive… but I don’t feel alive,
Just surviving every day, trying somehow to survive.
[Pre-Chorus] (Male Voice)
Would they notice if the silence took my place?
Would they recognize the emptiness I face?
I’m standing in the light but fading out of view…
Wondering if anybody ever really knew.
[Chorus] (Powerful Male Voice)
I’m gone before goodbye…
Standing here while I slowly die inside.
Holding everyone I love…
Still can’t feel enough.
I’m numb beneath my skin,
A war nobody ever sees within.
Will they know I disappeared…
Long before I wasn’t here?
Or will I just become another memory…
Of someone smiling while they couldn’t breathe?
[Verse 2] (Male Voice)
Every hug feels warm but never reaches my soul,
Every “How you doing?” gets the same rehearsed role.
I don’t wanna worry anybody that I love,
So I bury every feeling underneath the dust.
Looking in the mirror, asking who’s looking back,
Trying to remember where I lost the things I lacked.
Hope gets quieter every passing night,
Like a candle begging darkness for one more fight.
I don’t need somebody fixing every broken part,
I just wish somebody heard the silence in my heart.
Maybe then they’d understand why I’m so far away…
Even when I’m standing with them every day.
[Bridge] (Soft Male Voice)
If tomorrow came without my smile…
Would they say they saw it all the while?
Or would they whisper…
“I wish he’d said something…”
(Instrumental rises with strings and choir.)
[Final Chorus] (Emotional Male Voice)
I’m gone before goodbye…
Still reaching out with empty hands held high.
Surrounded by the ones I love…
Still never feeling like enough.
I’m screaming without making any sound,
Trying not to let my whole world drown.
If one day I finally break apart…
Promise you’ll remember who I was…
Not the smile I wore to hide the scars…
Not the jokes that covered all the dark…
Remember that I loved you with all my heart…
Even when I couldn’t find my own.
[Outro] (Whispered Male Voice)
If you ever wonder where I went…
I was fading…
Long before goodbye.
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