[VERSE 1 ] I been in this room since nine The clock lost meaning somewhere around eleven The cursor blinking patient on a life I keep meaning to get back to I know the BPM of every feeling I've had Before I know the feeling I find the key before I find the words I build the drop before I build the courage The beat was always first The beat was always clearer Than anything the daylight Ever tried to hand me [PRE-CHORUS] And I know it isn't normal to be bleeding out to the sound Of a stranger's sad song but like damn The beat is the only place I've ever been found And the clock is glaring, it's 3AM again [CHORUS] Found in the frequency, lost in the sound Nobody's looking but the music's still around Are you out there? Are you listening? Are we real or just existing? In the beat In the beat [We live in the beat] [VERSE 2] There's a version of me that goes to things That answers when they call That shows up in the daylight Looking approximately whole But the truest version lives in here In the space between the kick and snare Where nobody needs me to explain myself Where what I feel becomes the air I been making music for the version of me That didn't have language yet Twelve years old and drowning quiet And the beat said And it did And it does And at 3AM It still does [PRE-CHORUS] And I know it isn't normal to be bleeding out to the sound Of a stranger's sad song but like damn The beat is the only place I've ever been found And the clock is glaring, it's 3AM again [BRIDGE ] ...the only place I've ever been f-f-found... And I can hear the room around it And it's fine It's just quiet Which is different from empty I keep forgetting that But then the buffer loads And I don't close the session [FINAL CHORUS] Found in the frequency, lost in the sound Nobody's looking but the music's still around Are you out there? Are you listening? Are we real or just existing? In the beat In the beat We live in the beat [OUTRO] ...the only place I've ever been f—
