Mournful Tune (Spongebob: The Forgotten Episodes ~ Red Mist Squidward)

[Verse 1 ~ Walking slowly, head down, voice filled with sorrow] Another day, another failure, lost inside this cruel routine… Every note I play is wasted, echoes mock what could have been. Dreams of grandeur, crushed to nothing, laughed away like some bad joke… What’s the point in even trying, when the world just leaves you broke? Empty hallways, cold and hollow, drowning in this sea of shame… Just a speck in this vast ocean, no one even knows my name. Every step is weighed by burden, dragging chains I cannot break… Silence calls, and I just wonder—how much more can one soul take? [Verse 2 ~ Growing more bitter, rejecting hope] Pretty words, but they mean nothing, I have heard them all before… Every time I try to listen, all I hear’s the closing door. Just a joke, a walking failure, I was never meant to shine… All my efforts end in laughter, talentless by fate’s design. Every song I play is pointless, every step just leads to pain… Why keep fighting, why keep breathing, when it all just ends the same? Let me fade into the silence, let the waves just take me whole… If there’s music left inside me, then it’s only filled with woe. [Verse 3 ~ Voice cracking, overwhelmed by emotion] What’s the use in playing louder, when my notes are never heard? Every crowd just keeps on laughing, every cheer just feels absurd… I have tried and I have stumbled, I have fought, but what’s the prize? Just a hollow, empty future, just a name that no one cries. When I go, there’ll be no echoes, when I leave, there’ll be no sound… Not a whisper, not a memory, just another soul drowned out. Every moment just a cycle, spinning back to where I stand… And no matter how I struggle, I just sink into the sand. [Verse 4 ~ Pauses… slightly softer, but still broken] Maybe once, I’d take that offer… maybe once, I’d sing along… But that version of me’s buried, underneath where I belong… Once, I thought that life had meaning, once, I thought my dreams were real… Now I know that hope’s just poison, feeding lies I shouldn’t feel. You don’t know the weight I carry, you don’t feel the years of pain… Every song I wrote was wasted, every note just played in vain. If I scream into the silence, if I play until I break… Tell me, will the world start listening, or just turn away again? [Verse 5 ~ Voice trembling, breaking, almost whispering at points] I could leave, I could vanish, slip away without a sound… Would they notice? Would they wonder? Would they even turn around? Every laugh, every failure, every dream turned into dust… What’s the point in even breathing, when the air just feels like rust? Tell me, was I born for nothing? Just a ghost trapped in the tide? If I fade into the darkness, would the world stay just as bright? One last note, one last whisper, one last song before I go… If there’s peace beyond the silence… then perhaps it’s time to know. a sound… Would they notice? Would they wonder? Would they even turn around? Every laugh, every failure, every dream turned into dust… What’s the point in even breathing, when the air just feels like rust? Tell me, was I born for nothing? Just a ghost trapped in the tide? If I fade into the darkness, would the world stay just as bright? One last note, one last whisper, one last song before I go… If there’s peace beyond the silence… then perhaps it’s time to know.