Yeah

Sometimes life don't ask

It just takes

And all that you're left with is the pieces

Sometimes it hurts to outgrow

The life you built for yourself

To let go of who you were

Just to become who you were meant to be

Yeah

I used to dream in color

Now it's grayscale scenes

Used to speak with the thunder

Now I whisper through screams

Got a picture of my past

I can't tear from the wall

It's like a mirror to my flaws

That I'm scared to recall

Used to laugh in the hallways

Now I pace through the pain

Like a ghost in my own home

Tryin' to chase who I ain't

You wanna talk about growth

Like it's sweet and it's clean

But it's messy in the middle

When you bleed from the seams

Momma got said life'll test you

Yeah she ain't never lied

Felt like I took a scalpel

Left me open inside

And the world kept turning

While my thoughts stood still

Wrote my will in a notebook

Full of trauma and guilt

I ain't tryna be dramatic

This is more than a verse

This is every tear

That soaked the threads in my shirt

This is four AM shaking cause

The fear don't sleep

It's the scars on my soul

That I bury so deep

Had a friend turn stranger

A lover turn cold

Had a friend walk away

Like my worth got sold

And the silence that follows?

Man it cuts like knives

Wrote the poems to pain

Just so I feel alive

They said pain is a teacher

Well I learned too much

Had a heart full of love

Now it's hurting to touch

Every step that I take got a shadow I drag

Tryna run from my past but it catches me back

So don't call me up

I need space

Need space

Sometimes I feel stuck

I need change

Need change

So don't call me up

Don't call me up

I seen love break promises trust turn quick

Seen my faith get tested when the floorboards split

Tried to speak but the words they felt so hollow and thin

Like I'm talkin' to a sky that won't answer again

Used to beg for the past now I run from the ghost

'Cause every memory's a blade that be cutting too close

And the people I counted?

They all vanished like smoke

Left me stranded in a storm where the thunder?

Don't joke

I ain't bitter

Just broken in a world too loud

Tryna find peace of mind

Where the hurt's not allowed

Got a closet full of dreams

That I never unpacked

'Cause I'm scared they gon' crumble if I bring them back

You said be a man

But never said how to feel

So I buried my questions underneath my zeal

Smiled through the grief

Danced with the doubt

Held my breath for years

Now I'm tryin' to shout

Told my shadow

You can follow but you don't lead

'Cause I'm done lettin' pain be the one I heed

Yeah I walk through flames

Just to prove I could

Now I'm burnin' with a purpose

That they misunderstood

Every scar got a story

Every bruise got a name

Every setback taught me

How to rise from the shame

But I keep on moving

Like the sun through rain

'Cause I ain't tryna lose

To the weight of the change

So don't call me up

I need space

Need space

Sometimes I feel stuck

I need change

Need change

So don't call me up

Don't call me up

I need change