[Intro]

I'm proud, separate us

Oh-oh-oh, I'm proud, separate us

Don't play with my feelings, oh no, not again, no

Only say it if you mean it, only if you mean it

Don't play with my feelings, oh no, not again, no

Only say it if you mean it

Yeah (Only if you mean it)

[Verse 1]

Worst version of me

Couldn't handle defeat

Locked myself in a system, I wouldn't try for a week

Only stood on the fact I knew who I wanted to be

Lucky no cameras was watching, it was nothing to see (Woah)

Yeah, I knew for sure it was burning inside my chest

And some memories hadn't left so I made 'em work for the best (Yeah)

Flipped that shit on its head, I keep working and still depressed, uh (Yeah)

And the people that step on me end up planting a couple seeds

Defensive mechanism treat you worse than you did me (Yeah)

But still, I end up facing the mirror so I couldn't sleep, yeah (Yeah)

Still today I wonder if that version of me live

Inside somebody head, distorting who I really am

It'd be no reason but I'd fix it if I got a chance

For selfish reasons, it bothers me nothing more than man (Woah)

[Verse 2]

Worst version of me

I finally get inside that city I wanted to be

But with my bags and the boxes we packed inside a truck (Yeah)

I kept some pieces of burden to make it hard to breathe

So felt I wasn't free

And by the time I disintegrated the problem

My hair-trigger reaction to go and get another (Yeah)

My quickest guess to why, was the pattern giving me comfort

Pretend I couldn't see that complacency drag you under (Yeah)

The state that I was in made it impossible to care

And for my credit then, it was helpful for my career (Yeah)

Seeing it through my vision, and every time I would listen

To product that I created on basis of being scared (Yeah)

Why would I switch a method that's feeding me more profit? (Huh)

That's aside from issues that arise if I confront it

Couldn't break a habit, let it turn me into nothing

Hoping that I when I finally fast forward I was something (Yeah)

[Bridge]

Don't play with my feelings (Hoping that I), oh no, not again, no

Only say it if you mean it, only if you mean it

Don't play with my feelings, oh no, not again, no

Only say it if you mean it, only if you mean it

[Verse 3]

Worst version of me (Yeah)

2:33 on the track as you hear me speaking now

I dig through versions of myself and try to figure out

If I've been carrying them here, and will it burn me down?

Confusion and doubt

I wonder if who I believed I was would feel proud

Or like me in this moment, feel he wasn't allowed

To let the pressure escape

Even if only a second you render time into waste

Stick to the route

How I'm perceived by the people I keep around me

Is constantly called into question despite it's not about me (Yeah)

Meet me now and base how you proceed on how you found me

It can't be unexpected should growing apart happen (Ha)

Keep my feet on the ground in front of me

And hope that when I look back at me now

I won't be carrying what's under me (Yeah)

Doors closing, I hope I leave you with more purpose

For the chance to look back and be proud, stay on the surface