[INTRO — heartbeat / vinyl hiss / distant soul vocal] DARK VOICE: You’re tired. MAN: Yeah. So why keep doing this? Because I’m still here. For what? … Give me a minute. [BEAT DROPS] [VERSE 1] Thoughts running circles, won’t get out my head, Darkness keeps talking like it wants me dead, Telling me I’m finished, telling me I’m through, But another voice whispers— “Don’t believe you.” I’m pacing through the room trying to argue with my brain, Trying to separate the truth from exhaustion and pain, ‘Cause a thought can sound convincing when you’re drowning in the night, But feeling like there’s no way out— doesn’t mean that voice is right. DARK VOICE: Nobody understands. MAN: Maybe. DARK VOICE: Nobody would notice. That’s a lie. How you know? Because pain doesn’t get to answer questions about people that I love. [HOOK — haunting vocal sample] Just stay another minute. Then another if you can. You don’t gotta solve tomorrow. You don’t need some perfect plan. Let the darkness keep on talking— You don’t have to do what it says. Sometimes winning for the night is just making it to bed. [VERSE 2] DARK VOICE: Make it stop. MAN: I want the pain to stop. That’s different. [DRUMS CUT] Damn… That’s different. Maybe I don’t want my life gone, I just don’t wanna hurt, And my exhausted mind confused the two because it couldn’t find the words. So I’m putting distance between the thought and what I do, Getting out of isolation, finding somebody I trust to talk to. No permanent decisions while my mind is in a storm. I’m staying around people until this moment passes on. DARK VOICE: You’re weak. MAN: Then I’ll be weak tonight. But I’ll be here tomorrow morning— and we can argue when it’s light. [VERSE 3 — sample flips] I don’t need some revelation, Don’t need everything repaired, I need another human being to know that I’m not okay. One phone call. One knock. One sentence: “Stay with me.” Sometimes that’s the little crack that lets enough light through to breathe. And maybe morning doesn’t fix it. Maybe healing takes some time. But tomorrow gets a vote— I won’t let tonight decide. [FINAL HOOK — huge drums] Stay another minute. Stay another hour. Let somebody carry weight when you don’t have the power. That voice might sound convincing, but a thought is not command. Put tomorrow back on the table. Give yourself another chance. You don’t gotta win forever. Don’t gotta understand your life. Just don’t let your darkest minute make a decision for all time. [OUTRO — heartbeat slows] DARK VOICE: I’ll come back. MAN: Maybe. DARK VOICE: Then what? MAN: I’ll answer again. [vinyl fades]
