[Verse 1] I been tryna hold it down, but my mind don’t stay, Every little thought just drags me away. Books on the desk, but my head in the sky, I’m doing my best and I don’t know why. Grad school got me bleedin’ from the inside out, Smilin’ in the room while I’m full of doubt. I can focus for a minute, then it slips again, Like I’m always almost there but I never win. [Pre-Chorus] I don’t need applause, I just need some peace, Need the noise in my head to finally release. I wanna be real, I wanna be enough, But my hands keep shaking when it gets too rough. [Chorus] I just wanna lock in, I just wanna stay, I just wanna feel like me at the end of the day. Adderall help me focus, but it take my soul, Now I’m movin’ through life on a half-empty road. I just wanna love you, but I’m runnin’ too thin, Give you everything I got, got nothin’ left within. I just wanna breathe, I don’t wanna break, But the thing that helps me live keeps stealing my face. [Verse 2] Used to be the one who could laugh through the pain, Now I’m countin’ every word like a pulse in my brain. Text too late, miss calls, let the moments go, I care too much and still I move too slow. It ain’t that I don’t love, it’s just hard to show, When your heart’s in a battle and your thoughts won’t go. I’m tryin’ to be present, tryin’ to be kind, But I’m losing my grip tryna quiet my mind. [Pre-Chorus] I don’t need a cure, I just need some light, Something in my chest that feels less like a fight. I wanna be honest, I wanna be true, But I’m giving all I have just to make it through. [Chorus] I just wanna lock in, I just wanna stay, I just wanna feel like me at the end of the day. Adderall help me focus, but it take my soul, Now I’m movin’ through life on a half-empty road. I just wanna love you, but I’m runnin’ too thin, Give you everything I got, got nothin’ left within. I just wanna breathe, I don’t wanna break, But the thing that helps me live keeps stealing my face. [Bridge] Piano in the dark, strings in the air, I keep building a life from a mind that ain’t there. If I lose a little me just to get through the night, Tell me I was still me when I held on tight. [Final Chorus] I just wanna lock in, I just wanna stay, I just wanna feel like me at the end of the day. Adderall help me focus, but it take my soul, Now I’m movin’ through life on a half-empty road. I just wanna love you, but I’m runnin’ too thin, Give you everything I got, got nothin’ left within. I just wanna breathe, I don’t wanna break, But the thing that helps me live keeps stealing my face. [Outro] If I sound like I’m fading, I’m just tryna survive, Tryna keep my heart and my mind alive.
