[Verse 1] In the hollow-lit halls of my own invention, I tread like a ghost with a borrowed name A specter stitched together from the remnants of former passions now dulled to gray. Every heartbeat feels like an echo of a life I no longer claim, Reverberating through ribcage corridors where there once was flame. [Pre-Chorus ] And I watch the world revolve without me constellations of companions spinning far beyond my reach. I’m orbiting absence. I’m gravity’s orphan. Unseen even when I speak. [Chorus] Tell me was I ever more than background noise beneath their revelry? A fading hymn lost under brighter voices, a fracture in the symmetry? These hands that once shaped joy now tremble like they’re guilty of surviving As if delight is contraband, and I am unworthy of arriving. [Post-Chorus] Tell Me [Verse 2 ] [Rap Cadence] My reflection is a riddle, split middle, a brittle little signal that fizzles when I get near a glitch ghost, drip-script in the ink smear. Identity leaks slow codes from a soul on the brink, Every boundary blurs ’til the lines don’t link. Who am I when the mirror keeps shifting the post, when the voice in my head turns the sacred to a hoax? I’m choking on the notion that the version I chose is a counterfeit current just a shadow composed of the parts of me nobody truly knows. Friends turned phantoms not malicious, just missing, dissolving into obligations I dare not compete with. [Bridge] Their silence becomes a sermon on my quiet disposability. I parse their absence as evidence that affection was a fever dream, A fragile theology I was foolish to believe. [Breakdown] But maybe I am the vacancy I accuse them of leaving. Maybe I am the echo I keep mistaking for meaning. Maybe it’s me just me unraveling in slow, unseen spirals while the world continues to breathe. [Chorus] Tell me was I ever more than background noise in their temporary symphonies? A placeholder with pulse, a shadow wearing borrowed intimacy? These colors that once lit my lungs now cauterize instead of comfort And every joy I try to touch says softly, You don’t deserve me. [Post-Chorus] Tell Me Tell Me Tell Me Tell Me
