[Verse 1] I dug my own grave with a plastic pen clicked "record" on the shame so I’d never tell a friend The bait was my privacy I dangled it in my own mind hit save, hit play, hit rewind like I’m testifying [Pre-Chorus] Wrote "private" on the case black ink over silver tape thought a single word could hold the weight [Chorus] Private as possible locked in a bedroom drawer hushed like a hospital you can’t hear it anymore Private as possible hid what I couldn’t fix one play, one miracle then it slipped through the mix [Verse 2] That trick only worked once first spin, felt clean like confessing in reverse to a humming machine Now every secret sounds staged every truth tastes rehearsed I built the perfect cage then climbed in it first [Pre-Chorus] Label peeling at the edge letters bleeding into gray what I swore I’d never say keeps leaking through the haze [Chorus] Private as possible locked in a bedroom drawer hushed like a hospital you can’t hear it anymore Private as possible hid what I couldn’t fix one play, one miracle then it slipped through the mix [Bridge] [low vocal register] If you found that tape would you press your thumb on the shaky words til they came undone? [whispered vocals] Or leave it in the dark like I swore I would some graves are better left under the wood [Chorus]
