2:17 A.M

Clock stuck on 2:17

Same four walls, same old dream

Phone lights up but it’s not you

Guess I always kinda knew

Sink full of things I can’t fix

Bills and doubt and broken bits

I laugh it off in daylight

But everything gets loud at night

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Pre-Chorus

I keep telling myself I’m fine

But silence don’t lie

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Chorus

It’s 2:17 and I’m wide awake

Counting every risk I didn’t take

Every version of me I could’ve been

Spinning circles in my head again

I swear I’m trying, I really am

But life don’t go the way you plan

And I don’t know where I fit in

At 2:17

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Verse 2

Used to think I’d have it mapped

Now I’m just trying not to crack

Everybody moving fast

Feels like I got left in the past

Mirror says “you’re doing fine”

But it don’t see inside my mind

I’m running out of pretty lies

To dress up all these why’s

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Pre-Chorus

Maybe I’m just in between

Who I was and who I’ll be

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Chorus

It’s 2:17 and I’m wide awake

Counting every risk I didn’t take

Every version of me I could’ve been

Spinning circles in my head again

I swear I’m trying, I really am

But life don’t go the way you plan

And I don’t know where I fit in

At 2:17

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Bridge (soft → build)

What if I’m not too late?

What if this don’t define my fate?

What if all this pressure breaks

And something good remains?

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Final Chorus (slight hope)

It’s 2:17 but maybe that’s okay

Maybe I don’t need it all today

Maybe every road I didn’t take

Still leads me somewhere I can stay

I’m still trying, I still am

Learning life ain’t just a plan

Maybe I’ll find where I fit in…

After 2:17