✍🏽 LYRICS BY EXIDIOUS & EME LATINA (2025) 🎚️ARRANGEMENT BY EXIDIOUS & EME LATINA (2025) ------------ ABOUT: ------------ The original song by Exidious really resonated with me, and he was gracious enough to allow me a collaborative effort. I added my own set of lyrics to his, and finished the soundscape from what he had laid down. This has been in the vault for several months, and today it finally gets to see the light of day 😄 Many of us have worn masks, of one kind or another, for life can be a little too hard to bare without one on. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it's just a crutch. This song is about that. ------------ LYRICS: ------------ [Intro] (back back back back in) (back back back back on) [Verse] Woke up feelin' like the floor (dead eyes) cold room (same sad war) Drag myself up, fake breath in... Mask back on, let the day begin! Smile tight (like it ain’t cracked) Talk soft, don’t let ‘em ask... (cue questions) 'Cause if they knew what’s underneath... might flinch, might leave, might not speak! [Chorus] I want to be seen... not scanned I want to be heard... not planned But (but) (but)(but) I let the mask slip so I grip it tighter Force that grin! (burnin’ quieter) [Verse] I been off, man— (not quite right) Sleep’s a joke, brain’s all f-f-f-fight Checked my phone— (no one's checked in...) Guess I hide it well, huh, guess I win! But it’s weird how... I catch every shift (every change) in their moods, in how they drift ha! but no one catches the drag in me (hahaha) I’m just part of the scenery [Drop] [Verse] Feels like I’m s-s-s-slippin’ inside my own head (N-n-n-nothin’ hits right) (just gray instead) 2 years deep... in weight I never dropped And now it’s crashin’— all of it, n-n-n-no stop! I laugh on cue, like I’m okay (I'm okay...) nod through the noise (play the game) but I’m sinkin’— it's a s-s-s-slow slide Don’t know where help would even hide... People say “reach out”— (uh-huh) to whom? No one sees when I’m not me... do you? Like if I’m quiet, it’s just my thing (right?) Not a signal, (nahhh) not a silent scream... (insideee!) [Bridge] So I scroll I type I delete Mask back on, repeat repeat [Chorus] I want to be seen... not scanned I want to be heard... not planned But (but) (but)(but) I let the mask slip so I grip it tighter Force that grin! (burnin’ quieter) [Drop] (scenery) (scenery) (scenery) (scenery) [Outro] Still here, still stuck, still breathin’ But inside— I’m barely (I'm barely) keepin’ keepin' keepin'
