[INTRO | FEMALE SPOKEN] 2424. Funny how four numbers can hold an entire fucking life. I was on the streets. Matt was looking out for me. And somehow... you opened that door. We said we wouldn't fall in love. [FEMALE LAUGH] God... the arrogance. Because love never asked us. [VERSE 1 | FEMALE LOW RAP] Twenty-four twenty-four, I still remember that door, I didn't have somewhere safe to call mine anymore. My brother Matt looked out for me, somehow led me your way. You gave me somewhere I could breathe when I had nowhere I could stay. We made rules like fools do, thought we'd keep our hearts untouched. Don't get attached. Don't make this love. Don't need too much. Then without a fucking warning you kicked me... right in the heart. And everything we swore wouldn't happen had already fucking started. [PRE-CHORUS | FEMALE ROCK VOCAL] Two years later you're still asking where I am. Who I'm with. Where I'm sleeping. When I'm coming back again. But you're staring at my footsteps while you're running from your own. Baby, I'm not disappearing. You're just terrified I'll go. [DROP] [CHORUS | EXPLOSIVE FEMALE ROCK VOCAL] YOU CAN'T SEE PAST YOUR REFLECTION! You're looking for betrayal in my eyes! But maybe all that guilt you're carrying is everything you left behind! Those darker fears you kept buried are finally coming into light! You did me wrong. I'M NOT YOU. And I forgave you anyway! So stop tracking my whereabouts like love is something you can chase! I'm right fucking here! LOOK AT ME! The problem isn't where I stay! [VERSE 2 | FEMALE RAP] You hurt me. That's history. I'm not rewriting what you did. But forgiveness doesn't mean I have to live inside that shit. I could've made your mistakes the definition of your name. Could've handed every wound back and called revenge a fair exchange. I didn't. Because I'm not you. And maybe that's the part you miss. I chose forgiveness without pretending none of it exists. But now every time I'm somewhere you don't understand or see, suddenly I'm standing trial for something done to me. Where you at? Who's there? Why didn't you answer me? Meanwhile I'm screaming: WHEN THE FUCK ARE YOU GONNA SEE ME? [HARD STOP] [PRE-CHORUS | ANGRY FEMALE VOCAL] I'm not the woman you need to investigate. I'm the woman who fucking stayed. Two years. TWO YEARS. Don't you dare reduce that to breadcrumbs on a plate. [DROP] [CHORUS] YOU CAN'T SEE PAST YOUR REFLECTION! You're looking for betrayal in my eyes! But maybe all that guilt you're carrying is everything you left behind! Those darker fears you kept buried are finally coming into light! You did me wrong. I'M NOT YOU. And I forgave you anyway! Stop tracking my whereabouts and start asking where YOU'VE been! Because I've been building toward tomorrow while you're fighting yesterday again! [BRIDGE | FEMALE SPOKEN] Do you remember 2424? Because I do. I remember needing somewhere to go. I remember you opening the door. I remember thinking we were smart enough not to fall in love. [FEMALE LAUGH] We weren't. And I remember what came after, too. The good. The ugly. What you did. What I forgave. What I did. What you forgave. That's what two years actually looks like. Not spotless. Not painless. Real. But I can't spend the next two years proving the last two happened. [BREAKDOWN | FEMALE SCREAM-RAP] STOP ASKING WHERE I AM! ASK YOURSELF WHERE YOU'RE GOING! STOP SEARCHING FOR ANOTHER MAN! START BUILDING WHAT YOU SAY YOU'RE BUILDING! I'M NOT YOUR PUNISHMENT! I'M NOT YOUR PAST! I'M NOT THE ONE WHO MADE YOUR FEAR! I'M THE ONE WHO FUCKING LASTED! I HAVE DREAMS! I HAVE PLANS! I HAVE SHIT I'M TRYING TO BUILD! And I wanted YOUR hands beside mine! Not another fucking bill for wounds I didn't give you! [FINAL CHORUS | HUGE FEMALE ROCK VOCAL] TWENTY-FOUR TWENTY-FOUR! YOU OPENED UP THAT DOOR! I walked in with almost nothing! I DON'T LIVE THERE ANYMORE! I love you! Goddammit, I love you! But love can't be the only thing we bring! I need somebody building with me! Not somebody questioning everything! Two years! I stayed! Two years! I forgave! Two years! I kept imagining what WE could fucking make! So if you're coming... COME FORWARD! Quit interrogating where I've been! Look past your own reflection! And SEE THE WOMAN STANDING HERE! [FEMALE SCREAM] I'M STILL HERE! SO WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH THAT? [OUTRO | FEMALE SPOKEN] 2424 was a door. You opened it for me once. I'm standing at another one now. I won't drag you through it. But if you're coming... stand up and walk beside me.
