[Intro – Background] (Soft TV noise, phone alerts, street hum. One by one, sounds click off.) [Third Voice – spoken] Yeah… Whole world love to talk about the grind. Nobody talk about the part where you gotta stop. (Beat slides in: slow, warm, low-volume drums.) [Verse 1 – First Voice] I cut the lights off, let the room go dark, Little blue glow from the street like a spark. Phone face‑down on the dresser, screen dead, Whole day tryin’ to climb out of my head. Thoughts line up at the door like they want in, One by one, I just don’t let ‘em begin. Sheets feel cool where my body lay down, Pillow catch weight from my chest, from my crown. I feel my jaw unclench, tongue rest low, Little space open up where the rush used to go. Air from the window smell like rain on stone, Far-off siren, but it don’t feel close, don’t own Any piece of my mind right now tonight, It’s just background paint on a room feelin’ right. [Pre-Chorus – First Voice] I let the day stay on the other side of the wall, No reruns, no “shoulda,” no late-night call. Just the rhythm of my breath and the weight of these bones, In a quiet only I can own. [Chorus – Third Voice (melodic, sleepy)] Lights out, mind down, let the noise all fade, Let the weight slide off like a coat you laid. Let the room get small, let the world get wide, Close both eyes, let the tide inside. No fight, no rush, no keeping score, Just the sound of you not needing more. Lights out, mind down, slow that spin, Let the night be the place you finally settle in. [Verse 2 – Second Voice (rom wired to soft)] I used to lay here with my teeth all tight, Replay every little thing that felt not right. See faces, hear lines, feel heat in my chest, Body in the bed but my brain won’t rest. Clock on the wall throw red on the floor, Digits flip slow, mind still at war. So I start with what’s real in the room right now, That hum in the vent, that crack in the wall. The way the blanket weighs on my shins, The way the fabric feels on my skin. I let my hands get heavy, let my feet sink down, Feel the mattress rise up like it’s holdin’ me now. All that edge I carry in the daytime heat, Melt off slow from my shoulders to my feet. [Pre-Chorus – Second Voice] I ain’t losin’ my edge by layin’ it here, I’m just puttin’ it down till the morning’s near. Let tomorrow be tomorrow, let tonight just be, Me and this dark and this soft, low breathe. [Chorus – Third Voice] Lights out, mind down, let the noise all fade, Let the weight slide off like a coat you laid. Let the room get small, let the world get wide, Close both eyes, let the tide inside. No fight, no rush, no keeping score, Just the sound of you not needing more. Lights out, mind down, slow that spin, Let the night be the place you finally settle in. [Verse 3 – Third Voice] I feel my thoughts get lazy ‘round the edges of my head, Words turn foggy, heavy like lead. Scenes from the day start to stretch and bend, Turn into dreams ’fore the reel can end. Breath in, breath out, little waves on sand, Rising and falling like a slow‑moving band. Streetlamp glow paint a stripe on the floor, Eyes half‑open watch it, then don’t no more. The list in my brain that was ten miles long, Shrink down quiet like a half-finished song. I know it’ll be there when the sun comes up, But right now it’s just steam driftin’ off my cup. Pillow got my name in the curve of its shape, I slide a little deeper like an easy escape. Not runnin’ from life, just steppin’ aside, So my body get time to come back alive. [Pre-Chorus – Third Voice] If the day was the storm and the grind and the race, Then this right here is the still, safe place. Where the mind can float and the heart can mend, Where I don’t gotta be nothin’ but breath ’til the end. [Final Chorus – ad-libs] Lights out, mind down, let the noise all fade, Let the weight slide off like a coat you laid. Let the room get small, let the world get wide, Close both eyes, let the tide inside. No fight, no rush, no keeping score, Just the sound of you not needing more. Lights out, mind down, slow that spin, Let the night be the place you finally settle in. (Ad-libs, low) [First Voice] Yeah… let it go. [Second Voice] Tomorrow’ll be there. [Third Voice] Right now, just breathe. [Outro – Background] (Soft house creaks, distant car passes, then almost silence.)
