[Intro / Hook] [Spoken word, fragile, haunting, intimate] Who am I underneath? What if every good thing I ever did was just for the fake version you see? What if all the parts I love are the parts that aren’t real? Who am I underneath? What if every part of me I tried to hide was the real me? [Duel vocals] What if I buried myself alive because even I didn’t want to see? [Verse 1] [Duet vocals] [Female vocals] What if every smile, every laugh, every good word that I gave Was just part of the version, that I always tried to save Every friend and every love, every good I had inside Was only there to build, the face I built so I could hide [Male lead vocal, emotional delivery, lower register, raw but gentle, clear solo male voice, no female vocal in this section] Yea that version got the hugs, got the friends, got all the love Tryna rip it all away, but I fucken don’t know how to stay Every dark, every scar, that’s the only thing that's real So what’s the point of being, if that's the only thing I feel [female vocals] I swear I’m finally here at last, but I don't got nothing left inside Just every fucken doubt and question, buried so deep so i can hide Swore I’m done with all the faking, -but I just don’t know- how to make it When every good thing I was, Is nowhere near for you to love [Male lead vocal grows more strained, breath pressure increasing] So excuse me if I bleed, excuse my doubts excuse my fall Yea Excuse me for bad habits, -cause I don’t know- who to call I will try to give you real, but I just don’t know who I am So forgive if I go back, to the only face I understand [Chorus] [Male lead vocal with British female airy backing vocals] [Haunting harmonies, emotional lift, layered but still raw] Who am I underneath this face? If the mask got the love and I got all the shame I been digging through the pieces that I left behind Trying to find the one good thing that still feels mine [British female airy vocals softly answering behind male lead] I don’t know how to heal without hiding Don’t know how to fucken live fighting But if I fall back into who I used to be Please don’t let the mask be all you see [Female airy vocal echo: “all you see”] [Verse 2] [female lead vocal, airy, intimate, fragile but slowly growing stronger, emotional vulnerability] [FEMALE VOCALS] I peeled another layer, watched it fall between my hands Thought I'd find a stranger there, but she was where I'd always stand Every little piece I hid was crying out beneath my skin Maybe I was never lost... just locked away with no real cause [male led vocals with female end] Every scar I used to fear still trembles when I look But they don't read like endings now, they're pages from a book Maybe all the broken parts were only begging to be seen Not asking me to fix them... just to let them breathe [Chorus] [Duet Vocals, Airy layered harmonies begin to bloom] If love can reach the version that I buried in the dark Maybe every shattered piece was just tryna leave a mark I'm still scared to lose the mask, still scared of what I'll find But every step without it feels a little more like mine [Soft female harmony echoes:] A little more like mine... [Outro] Who am I underneath? Still searching through the ashes of the person I hide. If the mask falls apart and there’s nothing left to save... I hope the one inside is still alive.
