[Producer Tag — INTRO DROP] “This ain’t a song… it’s a confession.” [Intro — Spoken, Low-Pass Filter, Reverb Tail] Sometimes I wish I could turn my mind off… But it don’t come with a switch. So I bleed in the dark and I write in the light, Hoping God reads what I whisper, not just what I shout. [Verse 1 — CONFESSION] I been smiling in pictures, but crying in frames, Every “I’m good” that I said was a lie in disguise, I got friends in my phone that I don’t even call, ‘Cause I don’t wanna bleed on the ones that I love, I been praying for peace, but I argue with God, Like, “Why you give me a heart that don’t come with a guard?” Every dream that I chase got a price and a cost, Every bridge that I built got a part that I lost, I talk to my past like, “You done yet?” It said, “Nah, I just wait where you run at,” So I sit with my demons and pour ‘em a drink, Let ‘em tell me the truth while I stare at the sink, I don’t wanna be famous, I wanna be free, I don’t wanna be rich, I wanna be me, If my voice ever cracks when I say what I feel, That’s the sound of my soul finally learning to heal. [Hook — Sung/Rapped Hybrid, Wide Stereo, Delay Tail] If I fall tonight, will you hear my sound? Or just scroll my name when I’m not around? I don’t need a stage, I need solid ground, I’m just tryna find me before I’m found. [Verse 2 — CONFRONTATION] I been walking through crowds with a hole in my chest, Everybody want a piece, nobody want the mess, They love the success, but ignore the stress, They want the crown, but don’t wear the press, I learned how to laugh when my rent due, Learned how to pray when my friends choose A road that don’t lead where the light do, Now I write like my pen got a life too, Mama told me, “Son, don’t let pain make you cold,” So I turn every scar to a story I told, Every tear to a river, every fear to a road, If I fall, let my fall leave a mark in the stone, I ain’t chasing a chart, I’m chasing alignment, Soul over streams, I don’t need your assignment, If God gave me a voice, I won’t waste it in silence, I’d rather be broke with truth than rich in compliance. [Spoken Prayer Interlude] God, I don’t come to You clean, I come honest. I don’t got gold, I got scars. I don’t got answers, I got questions that keep me up at night. If You still walking with me, even when I’m walking away from myself… Then don’t fix my pain— use it. Turn my open wound into an open door. (2-second silence — deep breath audible) [Verse 3 — REDEMPTION / RISE] I used to beg for a sign, now I walk like one, Every breath that I take feel like God’s sunlight, son, I ain’t perfect, I’m proof that the dark can run, But it never outruns when the heart wants one, I forgive my reflection for all the hate, For every closed door and delayed fate, If my life a book, let the last page say: “He stayed real even when it cost him his place,” I ain’t scared of the fall, I’m scared of the cage, Of living this life and never my age, So I scream in these bars what I couldn’t in days