[Verse 1] I been quiet in a room full of noise, (yeah…) Mind racing, heart heavy, still I don’t raise my voice (don’t raise it) I love you loud in my actions, but my words stay trapped (mm) Every time I get close, feels like you pull me back (why you do that?) I fight myself more than I fight with you (with you) Demons in my head say I’m never enough, it’s true (never enough) I be reaching for you, you be scrolling your phone (you don’t see me) I’m bleeding right in front of you, still feeling alone (still alone) I don’t need you to fix me, I just need you to hear me (just hear me) But every time I open up, you look straight through me (look through me) Like my pain inconvenient, like my tears got a limit (too much, huh?) Like my heart got a mute button every time I get in it (every time) ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] (stacked low harmony under lead) I don’t know how to scream softer (softer…) I don’t know how to break without breaking us (breaking us) I carry us both on my shoulders (on my back) But I’m tired, and I’m losing touch (losing touch) ⸻ [Chorus] (main vocal + airy harmony an octave up) I’m standing at the edge of me (edge of me) Trying not to fall apart quietly (quietly…) If I tell you everything tonight (everything) Please don’t shut the door on me (don’t shut me out) I don’t wanna walk away (don’t make me go) But I can’t keep begging you to stay (no more) If love’s a conversation (conversation) Tell me why I’m talking to myself this way (all alone) ⸻ [Verse 2] I been drowning in thoughts I don’t let surface (yeah) Smiling in public, but inside I’m worthless (I’m not okay) I give you my strength when I don’t got none (all I got) Then you ask why I’m cold when the damage is done (you don’t see it) I feel unwanted even laying next to you (right here) Body close, but your soul somewhere I can’t get to (where you at?) You say “you’re too much” when I finally speak (too much…) But you don’t see the nights I don’t even sleep (wide awake) I’m not perfect, I know, I got scars in my tone (I know) But I’m asking for love, not to be left on my own (don’t leave me) If I walk out this door, it ain’t anger or pride (nah) It’s me choosing to live instead of slowly dying inside (dying inside) ⸻ [Bridge] (half-sung, half-spoken, heavy reverb) This ain’t a threat, it’s a confession (listen) I’m exhausted from the same conversations (same ones) If you hear me now, we might survive (right now) If you don’t… I don’t know if I will this time (don’t know…) (background harmony humming under last line) (mmm-mm-mm) ⸻ [Final Chorus] (full stack — lead, low harmony, high falsetto) I’m standing at the edge of me (edge of me) Trying not to fall apart quietly (don’t let me fall) If I tell you everything tonight (everything) Please don’t shut the door on me (don’t shut me out) I don’t wanna walk away (I don’t) But I can’t keep begging you to stay (no more) If love’s a conversation (say something) Tell me why I’m talking to myself this way (why?) ⸻ [Outro] (stripped back, almost whispered) So when I finally look you in your eyes and speak my truth (my truth) Just know this moment decides what we do (decides it all) I’m either healing with you… (with you) Or learning how to heal without you (without you…) (soft hum fades out) (mm-mm… yeah…)
