Self-Critical

"Self-Critical" by Echo Tide ------------------------------- Lyrical Creation: © 2025 Echo Tide Musical Arrangement: © 2025 Echo Tide All Rights Reserved | Copyright © 2025 Echo Tide ------------------------------------------------------------- [chorus] I can be self-critical Being me’s so miserable Are my thoughts still credible With the disease in my head... I feel so invisible And at best just typical All my life’s felt minuscule But I wanna be something grand... [rap verse] Yeah—I never hold out, cause self-doubt Overwhelms my ambition for something that matters Can you have a happy ever after If you never start the work to make the ever after happen? Nah, of course not Cause only you can make things work And only you can choose to hold relentlessly to your own worth Easy said, but rarely done But I just can’t expect someone To do the dirty work for me If I’ve still not at least begun [chorus] I can be self-critical Being me’s so miserable Are my thoughts still credible With the disease in my head... I feel so invisible And at best just typical All my life’s felt minuscule But I wanna be something grand... (Mmm) [rap verse] That’s just the way it goes Ain’t it though? Everyone starts out typical But feelings hold Wonderfully treacherous power if you let em Take it from someone who often obeys em Twelve years in school, had a cool graduation That last year or two, didn’t think I would make it But that was fear talking, and boy did I let it Well now I’m in college Which, by the way, is so overrated The point is that what you let infect your head Will always start trickling out in the end So if you go through life already defeated Then don’t get caught waiting for anything less [chorus] I can be self-critical Being me's so miserable Are my thoughts still credible With the disease in my head... I feel so invisible And at best just typical All my life’s felt minuscule But I wanna be something grand... [rap verse] Soundin’ like a broken record Know the truth, but I’m still not tethered I don’t know what holds my heart together Lack of resolve, although I have the answers It’s easier to stay in constant turmoil I guess the longer that you’ve been in trouble It’s starts to get more comfortable, comfortable But I’m a spoil of my mind, and I hate that [chorus] I can be self-critical Being me’s so miserable Are my thoughts still credible With the disease in my head... I feel so invisible And at best just typical All my life’s felt minuscule But I wanna be something grand... ------------------------------- Lyrical Creation: © 2025 Echo Tide Musical Arrangement: © 2025 Echo Tide All Rights Reserved | Copyright © 2025 Echo Tide -------------------------------------------------------------