[Intro: dark piano, vinyl crackle] Nobody Nobody clapped [Hook] Nobody clapped when I got up off the floor Nobody cared when I was knockin' on the door So fuck the applause, I don't need it no more Cold world taught me how to keep my own score [Verse 1] Open mic Tuesday, three heads in the place Bartender, my cousin, and a drunk with a busted face I spit it like a stadium, the speaker cuttin' out Feedback screamin' like it's tryna shut my mouth Walk home in the drizzle with a hoodie full of notes Twelve hours on a forklift, diesel in my throat Supervisor call me dreamer with a little smirk He don't know the dream's the only reason I show up to work Mama leave a voicemail, baby, when you gonna quit Love in every syllable and every one of 'em hit Landlord taped a notice on my door, the color pink I wrote sixteen on the back of it in ballpoint ink Little brother ask me why I'm always up at four 'Cause that's the only hour no one tells me what I'm for Nobody's comin', that's the first thing that you learn Second thing, the fire don't care who's watchin' it burn [Hook] Nobody clapped when I got up off the floor Nobody cared when I was knockin' on the door So fuck the applause, I don't need it no more Cold world taught me how to keep my own score [Verse 2] Seven years of postin' songs to forty-seven views Half of 'em was me on different phones, I'm not confused Homies I came up with got a mortgage and a lawn Askin' you still doin' that, like it's somethin' that I'm on Ex packed up the TV and she left me with the chair Said you love that notebook more than me, I told her, fair Got a cough I never checked 'cause the co-pay is too steep Got a verse for every bill that's keepin' me from sleep Ain't nobody gonna save you, ain't no cape on the way Ain't no suit in the lobby waitin' on your tape So I clap for myself, two hands, raw Callused palms sound louder than the crowd I never saw [Beat Switch: orchestral strings rise, live drums double up] And if I die in this apartment with the heat cut off Let the landlord find the notebooks, let him read 'em, let him cough Let him find the pink notice with my bars on the back Let him say this motherfucker never quit, and that's that I ain't askin' to be famous, I ain't askin' to be saved I just want it on the record that I worked it to the grave Every door that closed on me, I stacked up in a pile Struck a match, warmed my hands, been burnin' for a while [Hook] Nobody clapped when I got up off the floor Nobody cared when I was knockin' on the door So fuck the applause, I don't need it no more Cold world taught me how to keep my own score [Verse 3: piano only, drums creep back] Tuesday, open mic, there's eleven in the place And a kid up in the front row mouthin' every word to my face Didn't clap, didn't have to, I could see it in his eyes Same cold, same floor, same four a.m. skies That's enough, that's plenty, that's the only crowd I need One stranger livin' off the same pain that I bleed [Final Hook] Nobody clapped when I got up off the floor Nobody cared when I was knockin' on the door So fuck the applause, I don't need it no more Cold world taught me how to keep my own score [Outro: piano fades] Nobody clapped I did
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