Back From The Ledge

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[Verse 1]
Face down on the mattress
Phone lit like a matchstick by my hand
All these heavy questions
Stacked up like dishes in the sink again
Breath short
Room spinning slow
Staring at the crack above the door
Thinking it’d be easy
To just not think anymore

[Chorus]
But I’m not going out like this
Not my last night
Not my last wish
Tears on the pillow
Fists in the sheets
Heart still beating like it’s begging for me
Yeah
I’ve been right on the edge
Toes hanging over the ledge
But I talk to the dark till it turns into dawn
And somehow
I’m still holding on

[Verse 2]
Left a note in my drafts
Three lines
Then I had to look away
Heard my mother laughing
On an old voicemail I saved
Friend text
“you up?”
I stared at the bubbles on the screen
Typed
“I’m kinda breaking”
Hit send
Then started to breathe

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
[low vocal register] One breath
Then another one
“I’m still here”
Mumbled to myself
I’m not a burden
I’m not a ghost
I’m not the worst things
I tell myself the most
[whispered vocals] I tell myself again
Till I start to believe it

[Chorus]