[Opening Hook — Immediate Start] Take me back, take me back— Here I am. One foot in the past, one hand on the latch, Let it snap. [Verse 1 — Deep, Tight Rhythmic Rap] Give me your number, I just wanna know you, Before all the noise found a way to decode you. Back when the last train rattled above, We could barely hear a word, still we called it love. Two cold coffees and a cracked phone screen, You drew little circles in the dust on my jeans. Now I thumb through a thread till the letters blur, Got a head full of lines that I never sent her. Wait—let it breathe, let the kick come through, Every little click brings a flicker of you. I can skip that track, I can switch that route, But the bass hits once and your name slips out. [Verse 1B — Double-Time Burst] Little by little, I live in the middle Of leaving it buried and digging it up. I pick at a syllable, twist it, belittle it, Say it means nothing—it still means too much. Missing the timing, revising the evening, Rewriting a line that was never enough. Stop. Let the silence finish what it was. [Chorus — Melodic, Rhythmic] Take me back, take me back, To the beat beneath the railway track. You're in me, here I am, Singing what I couldn't say back then. Take me back, take me back, Let the whole room answer that. Tell me what you wanna do, I still hear myself in you. [Verse 2 — Sharper Delivery] Yeah— Met my reflection in a dark shop window, Same old jacket with a new rip in the elbow. Stood there laughing with my keys in my fist: How many nights had I vanished like this? I was so busy making every word fit, I forgot how to speak without editing it. Made you the judge of the shape of my voice, Then blamed your silence for my lack of choice. Your number's the same, but the reason has changed, I don't need you to answer to step on the stage. Let the snare cut clean, let the low end roll, Got a breath in my chest I can finally hold. [Verse 2B — Double-Time, Precise Diction] Back with a stutter, a battering rhythm, I scatter the syllables over the kick. Dragging a memory out of the melody, Turning it over and loosening its grip. Trip on a consonant, land on the pocket, Then leave a little space where the hi-hats skip. Quick with the tongue, but the truth comes slow: I missed myself more than you'll ever know. [Chorus — Stronger] Take me back, take me back, To the beat beneath the railway track. You're in me, here I am, Singing what I couldn't say back then. Take me back, take me back, Let the whole room answer that. Tell me what you wanna do, I still hear myself in you. [Breakdown — Sparse Synth, Half-Time] Tell me what you wanna do. Tell me what you wanna do. If the past comes knocking, Must I let it through? You're in me— That's alright. Some things stay Without steering your life. [Full Instrumental Stop — Dry A Cappella] I came to take me back. [Final Chorus — Explosive, Layered Male Vocals] Take me back, take me back, Hear my voice and the room reacts. You're in me, here I am, More than who I was back then. Take me back, take me back, Keep the love, let the lock unfasten. Tell me what you wanna do— I've got somewhere to get back to. [Outro — Abrupt] Here I am. Take me back.
