I hold you close like my heart to my chest

You food for my soul

And lately I feel like I'm starving to death

I'm watching my steps cause I placed the bet

Without looking at the cards in my deck

You miss the shots that you don't take

Yo, that's cause and effect

I stare in the mirror and I'm finding it hard to reflect

I'm counting my blessings on my fingers

With all my regrets

I lie to myself because the truth is much harder to stretch

Sometimes I wish that I can just hit the pause and reset

Like a VHS

Remember those we used to copy over tape cassettes

Your favorite song on repeat

Recorded like three or four times in a row

The struggle was real

But you don't see it as struggling when survival's a skill And we survived it all

No bungee cord, no parachutes, still we survived the fall

And through it all, the ups and downs

I took the time to call

It's different now, I look around, you're not around at all

I look around, I look around

You're not around, you're not around

Come lift me up, I'm feeling down

Come lift me up, I'm feeling down

I look around, I look around

You're not around, you're not around

Come lift me up, I'm going down

Come lift me up, I'm going down