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Half Life

Underground Rap

Half Life was released on June 7, 2026 by Stickman as a part of the album Gravity Don't Care

Song Details

AlbumGravity Don't Care

Release DateJune 7, 2026

LabelStickman

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM84

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Stickman

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Jason May

Composer, Lyrics

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Jason May

Producer

Lyrics

Everything decays

The question is, how slowly?

Half-life of a friendship is about four years

After that, the isotope of closeness disappears

By half, then half again, exponential distance

Between the ones you loved and the ones who kept their persistence

My father's voice has got a half-life in my memory

Each year it gets a little less, that's just the chemistry

Of grief, the radioactive weight of what you've lost

Decaying slowly but the decay has got a cost

Half-life of the suburb where I grew up, maybe fifty years

Before the gentrification clears

The people who built it from the dust and sent their lives there

And replaced them with the ones who drive in from elsewhere

Half-life, everything fades by half

Half-life, the things that made me laugh

The faces and the places slowly thinning out

Half-life, that's what love is all about

A rate of slow decay that you can calculate

But knowing doesn't stop it and knowing comes too late

Half-life, Stikman counting down

Half-life, everything that I have found

Will halve again and halve again

Until it's just a trace of what it's been

The half-life of a version of yourself is brutal

You mourn the one you were before the hustle

Before the grind compressed the softness into armour

Before the need to win replaced the need for warmth here

I was someone who would sit for hours just talking

Someone whose ambition didn't cost him all his walking

Now as now I'm always somewhere else in my head

Calculating futures over being present instead

Half-life of the innocence of Western Sydney summers

Before we learned that everything we had would go to others

Before the weight of being working class in this country

Got its half-life measured out in decades of being hungry

Some things don't decay

I wanna tell you that

I wanna say the love I carry has no half-life

But I've watched too much fade to make that promise

All I know is

The trace that's left of everything I've lost

Still holds mass, still pulls, dark matter

I am the sum of every half-life that I've carried

Every friend, every place, every version that I buried

Still radioactive, emitting something warm

From every isotope of who I was before the storm

Made me denser, every loss compressed my core

Half-life after half-life, there's still something more

Left in me, the decay hasn't zeroed out

And what remains is what this whole album is about

The trace of everything, the mass of all the missing

The West Sydney kid still calculating, still persisting

Half-life, yeah, but halves compound to something

And something is the album and the album isn't nothing

Half-life

Still here

Still warm

Stikman

Written by: Jason May

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