“Who I Used To Be”

🎵 Hook (autotune croon, soft delivery)

Rest in peace to who I used to be (yeah)

I was love before the cruelty

Before the silence, before the mask

Before the “I got you”s never last

I was soft, now I move discreet (facts)

Heart got cold from the lies I keep

I ain’t bitter — just broke my lease

Now the old me gone — may he sleep in peace

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He used to dream, now he count the threats

Used to laugh — now he flinch at texts

Used to trust, now he scan the room

Used to bloom — now he move like gloom

He had hope, till they ripped it out

Now he pray but don’t move his mouth

He was love, then he saw the blade

Now he sleep in pain that he can’t explain

I buried him in a place they forgot

Under scars that they called his “plot”

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🔊 Ad-Libs – Verse 1:

“He gone.” / “Remember him…” / “Before it all.” / “Lost that.”

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🎵 Hook (repeat, mellow echo fx)

Rest in peace to who I used to be

I was love before the cruelty

Before the silence, before the mask

Before the “I got you”s never last

I was soft, now I move discreet

Heart got cold from the lies I keep

I ain’t bitter — just broke my lease

Now the old me gone — may he sleep in peace

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I ain’t mad — just numb from the shift

I ain't soft — just tired of the cliff

They say “change is growth,” but it hurt to grow

Especially when the old me ain’t make the show

I be lookin’ back at pics like “Damn…”

He ain’t know the pain was in the plan

But I thank him — he walked through flames

So I could rise with a different name

Now I speak for the version that died

Who smiled in storms and never lied

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🔊 Ad-Libs – Verse 2:

“Still love you.” / “Had to grow.” / “Hard truth.” / “I miss him tho…”

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🎧 Outro – guitar loop solo, slight rain sfx

(Spoken)

He ain’t weak.

He was just too real for the world he was born into.