Listen - Intellectual

[Intro]

Listen

(Yeah)

[Verse 1: Theo]

Nothing is promised in life except death (Woh!)

So if you’re gonna live life

You might as well live it right

I’m sorry to be so blunt

I’m trynna prove a point

Everyone wants to know

What’s gonna happen if I don’t win

I guess will never know

Wrote this after I saw myself saying Ye Grammy speech

Lost for words

Realised that half the things

I put in my songs

I can’t say it to the people I know

Tell me what’s going down

I’ve been as you say

So stuck up

Lost in my thoughts (Ah)

In my own world (Yeah)

That’s living the dream

Me avoiding negativity

Now I look around (Round)

Is this a fantasy (Sy)

I guess I’ve kinda lost sight of my reality

[Hook: Theo]

And I’m like

Girl Listen (x3)

I’m like Listen (x3)

I’m trynna let my songs be heard

Let my songs be heard

I’m letting my heart beat guide me

But the voice inside me

Still sings alone

[Verse 2: Theo]

I get it

We used to be so close

Now we are strangers with memories

Like what date are we on

I’ve defiantly lost track of time

We chose our separate ways

But it seems everyone won’t admit it

So they claim they have it all under control

So we fight the distance

Message each other things we don’t have the guts say in person say in person

Is it worse to lack emotion or reason?

Matters of the heart and mind

You say guys are the same

But still hope for the perfect man

Yeah that could be a good thing

But the good things in my life could be passing me by

Like you

Yeah you could be living the dream

But how often do you realise you are living it

We want more and more and more

I sometimes I wish we had our old times

What we had before

You were so down to earth

A big part of my world

You know the drill you would feel free

Break the girl code

And you would just call

[Hook 2: Theo]

And I would

Listen (x3)

I would

Listen (x3)

And you would let your song be herd

Let your song be heard

Let your heartbeat guide you

But the voice inside you still sings alone

[Bridge: Theo]

Trynna break through these four walls (break through these four walls)

Just lying on my bed (Just lying, just lying on my bed yeah. Just lying on my bed)

You can’t miss what you never had (Miss what you never had)

But you can envy it instead (hoo you can envy it instead, yeah you can envy it instead oh ho)

I guess it’s easier to commit to a dream

Cause I’m much more afraid to believe in us committing

I’ll be the second to admit it

Coz when it comes to you I’m so indecisive

These are the consequences

You will never get what you want

Until you make that decision

That what you want is what you’re gonna get

Sounds simple doesn’t it

No matter the distance

My simplicity has become my complexity

[Outro: Dew]

Undecided and yet my mind has already been made up

Ideas flowing and emotions running wild

Inconsistent and yet in a jumbled sort of sequence

These are the frustrated expressions

Of a patched heart afraid to scar over forever

Forgive me

Though I have everything to give

I have nothing left to hold

Now I am running from the walls that once kept me safe

They crash down around me

Yet the hit the ground so softly

Afraid and yet facing you I am brave

Look into my eyes and tell me what you’ve tried to understand

Confusion hurt and endless heartache

The beginning was almost as sweet to come s it was to end

No doubt in my mind

But so much disbelief at your indifference

Here I stand I have fallen and but I will rise taller than before

Because no promises could ever convince me that there was ever truth amidst this all

Broken but not tamed

Ruthless is life

And yet in all of the noise I find solace as I find myself alone