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[Intro – Background murmur] (Crowd/room noise, then a quick hush like something just went wrong.) [Second Voice – spoken] Yeah… That one’s gone. [Third Voice] Question is… What you do with the next one. (Beat comes in.) [Hook – First Voice] That one’s gone, next one’s mine, Ain’t no sense stayin’ stuck on the last rewind. Yeah it stung, but I leave it behind, Let the past stay past, keep my eyes on the line. That one’s gone, next one’s mine, Can’t fix that miss by losin’ my mind. Take one breath, step back in the grind, Let the next small moment be where I shine. [Verse 1 – Third Voice] I feel that slip play back in my head, Frame by frame, every word that was said. Little knot in my stomach, heat in my face, Whole world shrink down to that one small place. I can see it from above like a film on loop, Me standin’ there, stuck in the same old soup. So I pause in my thoughts, zoom out the lens, See everything else that exist past then. The lights, the floor, all the people around, The air on my skin, that regular sound. I tell myself soft, “You already did that scene, You can’t crawl back in and change what it mean.” But you can pick how you stand for the next short frame, Where your eyes gonna go, what you call your name. [Short Pre-Hook – Third Voice] I let that picture fade to the back of my mind, Turn my head toward the next little line. [Hook – First Voice] That one’s gone, next one’s mine, Ain’t no sense stayin’ stuck on the last rewind. Yeah it stung, but I leave it behind, Let the past stay past, keep my eyes on the line. That one’s gone, next one’s mine, Can’t fix that miss by losin’ my mind. Take one breath, step back in the grind, Let the next small moment be where I shine. [Verse 2 – Second Voice] First thought in my chest is “Make it right now,” Do somethin’ too big, too fast, too loud. Hands get tight, jaw lock, breath short, Like I’m tryin’ to win back what I already lost. Head start yellin’ “double up, swing hard,” Every muscle in my body wanna over-guard. I know that feel, that rush, that sting, But if I chase that ghost, it’ll own everything. So I loosen my shoulders, drop my hands a notch, Let my breath run steady like a second hand watch. Tell myself low, “You don’t owe nobody a show, You just owe the next moment the best you know.” Not a movie to fix, not a crowd to impress, Just one small chance to do a little bit less… and better. [Short Pre-Hook – Second Voice] I let that need to prove slide off my skin, And lock on small to what’s right here again. [Hook – First Voice] That one’s gone, next one’s mine, Ain’t no sense stayin’ stuck on the last rewind. Yeah it stung, but I leave it behind, Let the past stay past, keep my eyes on the line. That one’s gone, next one’s mine, Can’t fix that miss by losin’ my mind. Take one breath, step back in the grind, Let the next small moment be where I shine. [Verse 3 – First Voice] I’ve worn that look, head down, whole vibe sore, Like one bad move wrote my whole life’s score. Like I’m only as good as that last bad take, Like one crack in the glass make the whole thing fake. But when I zoom out wide on the map of my days, I see a lot more colors than that one grey. So I talk to myself like I’d talk to a friend, “Yeah, that one hurt, but it ain’t your end. You ain’t that slip, you ain’t that call, You ain’t just the moment you didn’t stand tall.” You’re the steps that you took both before and after, All the quiet little tries nobody caught in laughter. So I square my feet where I’m standin’ now, Let that next small beat be my only vow. [Pre-Outro – First Voice, spoken over beat] We don’t get the last one back. We only get this one. [Final Hook – First Voice, ad-libs] That one’s gone, next one’s mine, Ain’t no sense stayin’ stuck on the last rewind. Yeah it stung, but I leave it behind, Let the past stay past, keep my eyes on the line. That one’s gone, next one’s mine, Can’t fix that miss by losin’ my mind. Take one breath, step back in the grind, Let the next small moment be where I shine. (Ad-libs, fading) [Second Voice] Next one… [Third Voice] Right here… [First Voice] Yeah… this one’s mine.