[Cold Open — Clean Guitar] [Single detuned guitar picking an uneasy repeating figure] [Low bass enters beneath it] [Dry drums build gradually] [Verse 1] It’s started again Does this shit ever go away? Following me like a shadow Watching every step I take I tried running from the wreckage But it’s always faster than me Every time I reach the finish line It’s already there waiting [Pre-Chorus] Every door I left unlocked Every bridge I left to burn Every lesson I ignored Is a lesson I relearn [Chorus] My chaotic life Pulling everything apart Turning every quiet moment Into another false start My chaotic life Make it stop and let me breathe I’m trying to become someone The past won’t recognize in me [Heavy Guitar Break] [Grinding bass beneath sustained distorted chords] [Drums hit with increasing force] [Verse 2] Bills are late My wife is leaving The kids only want my money They don’t seem to want my time The phone keeps ringing But I can’t answer Every voice on the other end Wants another piece of mine The house is getting colder The walls are closing in I keep asking where it ended But I don’t know where it began [Pre-Chorus] One wrong turn One missed sign One bad choice At the wrong damn time One wrong exit One more lie Now I’m standing in the ruins Of the life I left behind [Chorus] My chaotic life Pulling everything apart Turning every quiet moment Into another false start My chaotic life Make it stop and let me breathe I’m trying to become someone The past won’t recognize in me [Breakdown — Half-Time] The only thing still working Is the lyric to this song The only thing that hasn’t left Is the pain I’m leaning on So I turn it into rhythm I force it into rhyme If I can’t repair the damage I can document the crime [Instrumental Build] [Deep bass pulse] [Jagged guitar layers enter one at a time] [Drums grow increasingly chaotic] [Bridge] It wasn’t always this bad I wasn’t always this lost But every shortcut that I followed Came with another cost One wrong turn One wrong exit One wrong choice—and here we are Trying to find the man I was Beneath these fresh new scars [Final Chorus] My chaotic life You’ve taken everything from me But I’m still standing in the wreckage Of the man I’m trying to be My chaotic life Make it stop and let me breathe I refuse to let the worst days Be all anyone remembers me My chaotic life You can follow every step But I’m not finished fighting And I’m not finished yet [Outro] [Instrumentation suddenly drops to the opening guitar] It’s started again But so have I [One enormous full-band hit] [Hard stop]
