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Almost

Hip-Hop/Rap

Almost was released on July 3, 2026 by HC Music as a part of the album Before It Pulls Me Under

Song Details

AlbumBefore It Pulls Me Under

Release DateJuly 3, 2026

LabelHC Music

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM89

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

HC

Rap

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Joshua Holly

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

HC

Producer

Lyrics

Started small the way it always does a word a tone

A look across the room that made me wanna be alone

I felt it like a switch that flipped somewhere behind my chest

That old familiar signal telling me to decompress

By disappearing shutting down by going cold inside

By pulling out the playbook that I swore I'd set aside

But there it was like it had never left like it had stayed

Just waiting for a moment of weakness to get paid

I stepped right into it I felt myself go distant and removed

Watched myself from somewhere on the ceiling as I proved

That all that work can disappear in sixty angry seconds

That the person that I'm building is still losing to his demons

When the pressure hits the right way when the argument gets loud

When the version of me nobody sees starts pushing through the crowd

Of everything I've learned of every promise that I've kept

I felt it taking over and I almost let it

Almost, almost

I almost did it again

Almost, almost

Almost became him

And I didn't stop it early I want to be clear about that

I let it go far enough to know there's no taking back

Some of what was said some of the silence some of the cold

The way I left the room the way my eyes went blank and old

The way I could feel you watching me become someone else

Someone you'd heard about but never witnessed for yourself

And I watched your face change too watched you try to work out

Which version you were dealing with and I saw the doubt

And the worst part is I knew exactly what I was doing

I could see the pattern playing out and still kept pursuing

The exit the escape the old familiar disappearing act

Got most of the way there before something pulled me back

Not heroically not cleanly not before the damage landed

Just enough to stop before I left you completely stranded

In the wreckage of a fight I almost finished like I used to

The way I always used to, what I witnessed scared me too

Almost, almost

I almost did it again

Almost, almost

Almost became him

I don't know what stopped me

I wish I had something cleaner to tell you

Some moment of clarity some voice some reason

But the truth is I just stopped

And stood there in the wreckage of my almost

Looking at the distance between who I was and who I almost was again

And it wasn't far enough

That's the part I keep coming back to

It wasn't far enough apart

I thought I'd built more space between myself and that person

Turns out I just hadn't been tested the right way yet

And now I have

And I almost failed completely

Almost

So now I'm standing in this room with everything still broken

All the things I almost did and some of what was spoken

Hanging in the air between us like a question with no answer

Like a wound that needed stitches that I gave a band aid after

And I can't unsay the things that made it most of the way out

I can't unring the silence or undo the cold I gave out

But I didn't leave

I'm still here standing in this mess I made

Still here which for me is something still here and afraid

Of what it means that almost was as close as it was

Still here trying to figure out if staying is enough

If almost crossing lines is still a version of the line

If the person I'm becoming and the person I left behind

Are closer than I thought or if this is just the work

Showing up inside the hardest moments even when it hurts

I don't have the answer yet I just know I didn't go

And almost leaving is not leaving

That's the most that I know

Almost, almost

I almost did it again

Almost, almost

But almost isn't all the way

Written by: Joshua Holly

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