[Chorus]

I hear your name… I hear your name… I hear your name in my sleep

I hear your name… I hear your name…

I hear your name… I hear your name… and it’s not just me

[Verse 1]

Because the same people who listen to my songs

Are the same people who know their rights from wrongs

And I know

You're mad

You're bitter

Because you hate to see it

When you see a smaller artist that is better than you get better

Over shadow this man, man I'm out of your shadow

Man that is a tough spot to gеt out of

And man you're beat

You're battеred

And you'd say something like "I'd take another pill just to feel like I'm healing"

I say I'mma do it again because I'm feeling like I'm supposed to feel when I'm sick because I feel every time I take another step

Life comes back and stabs me in the back because I owed it a favor

I digged me some deep wholes

Thinking you the shit

Man I was a fan of you

How you gonna switch up on a fan who wanted to grow up to be a man just like you

All because I made a song about you, wasn't even a diss, you just took it personally

And if that wasn't personal enough

I'm gonna take it from 1 to a hunnid

Because I be damned if they call my bluff

Talking all that shit about cutting me to pieces

I'd like to see you try me

I know I took a shot

Or two

Or three

At you

But still

Got a closet of ammunition

And a brain full of dark thoughts

So take your shot

But when you aim

You better not miss

[Verse 2]

Tried to crack the code

What the hell did they see?

Was it somethin' in your words?

Or somethin' wrong with me?

Filled up with questions

Crossed out every line that sounded too rehearsed or too flat

Truth is, I was writin' with passion and obsessions

That one day I'd be a hero

You know about that though

Don't you?

Hero

[Verse 3]

Then one night someone said

Said, "put a target on your head"

Few months later you dissed me

So I must have your attention

And I must have gotten to you hero

I learned

If they never know your name make 'em know your scars too

Stop buildin' your career around somebody else's

So I started rewritin' verses 'til I couldn't find a limit

Every missed show, every "no," every door that never moved

Turned into another reason I got nothin' left to prove

I quit refreshin' pages tryin' to count somebody else's praise

Every crossed-out line was another version of me that couldn't keep up

That's the only body I ever had to bury

[Chorus]

I hear your name… I hear your name… I hear your name in my sleep

I hear your name… I hear your name…

I hear your name… I hear your name… and it’s not just me

[Verse 4]

I remember postin' tracks and watchin' nothin' move

Same fuckin five views, same people tellin' me to choose

"You ain't built for this,"

Yeah

I heard that one too many times

Three if you count myself

I didn't believe

Everybody got advice when they never lived it

I wrote through bad days, anger, bills, and stress

Now they ask me how I rap like this...

I wrote, that's it

[Verse 5]

Then it hit me

You never locked me in that room

I built the walls

Every comparison

Every refresh

Another nail in the coffin

I kept callin' it motivation...

It was addiction

Back in the basement, battlin' bad habits, backstabbers, backlash

Black backpack packed with bad drafts, I would trash half

Fit facts in six stacks, mismatch, but on the mic

I still snapped

Twistin' my feelings 'til i had to tell the truth

Bitin' the bullet

That was supposed to be a headshot

I aimed mine and I called it a deadshot

Had beef with myself

Every sentence a symptom

Then I saw you was the enemy

I guess we settled it then

[Verse 6]

They said, "Slow down."

I sped up with the stress

Head full of echoes

No head full of rest

Wrote what I couldn't get out of my head

Click after click, but the clicks never clicked

Picked every pick apart, sick of the script

Tripped on my pride

Then I tightened the grip

Built from the breaks that were meant to make me quit

Now when I step in the booth

I carry the cuts that hurt me the most

If they remember my name, let it be for the truth

Not 'cause I sounded like somebody...

I sounded like proof

[Verse 7]

They be telling me it's fire

They sound like judgment

Every number on the screen looked bigger in my eyes

Started studyin' your cadence, started hatin' what I'd write

If it didn't sound "important," I'd erase it every night

Read my old notebooks like they came from someone else

Wrote "You'll never make it" so much I memorized the spell

And that's part of the reason I wrote so well

Funny thing about obsession—how easily it convinces

Makes out progress while it looks like ambition

[Verse 8]

I'd finish one whole verse, then compare it to your worst

Never gave myself a chance, always gave myself the curse

That's why to me

Nothin' that I mad ever felt complete

I was trippin over my feet

And this same curse will destroy every rapper in my way because the same way it hurt me, it'll do worse to you

[Chorus]

I hear your name… I hear your name… I hear your name in my sleep

I hear your name… I hear your name…

I hear your name… I hear your name… and it’s not just me