Deep down
The house was built when you were seventeen and you’ve been painting over the damp ever since. Therapy gives it names. The names don’t fix the walls. This isn’t a phoenix story — no fire, no rising — just someone pulling up rotten floorboards and putting down new wood where the rot was. Quiet renovation. Light where there was none.
Tracks
- 01 Deep down 2:44
Lyrics
[Intro] [pitched vocal sample, chopped] tear it down... tear... build it... tear it down... [Verse 1] [tight delivery, two-step beat] Pulled the wallpaper back and the wall was wet Every fix a coat of paint on a deeper debt Been living in a house I built when I was seventeen Wondering why the doors don't fit and nothing's what it seems [Pre-Chorus] [breathy, dark pop] I'm not broken I'm just Built from someone else's blueprint Handed down and handed through Every line was drawn by someone who was never you [Chorus] [garage drop, haunting melody] Strip it back Down to the wire and the concrete crack Strip it back Find the version that I never got to be Somewhere underneath the scaffolding There's a room with light I've never seen Strip it back [Verse 2] [more rhythmic, building intensity] Therapist said name it so I named it all Every coping mechanism pinned up on the wall Some of them were beautiful and some of them were sharp Some of them kept me alive but left me in the dark [Bridge] [stripped, just sub bass and breath] This isn't victory This isn't war Just a quiet renovation Of a house I can't ignore New wood where the rot was Light where there was none Not a transformation Just becoming someone [Final Chorus] [full production, layered] Strip it back Down to the wire and the concrete crack Strip it back Find the version that I never got to be Not a phoenix not a fire Just a man with better wire Strip it back [Outro] [chopped vocal, fading] strip... it... back... strip... st