Everybody’s Lost

Everybody’s Lost
[intro, soft piano, melancholy and still]
Nobody talks anymore
They just perform
[verse 1, quiet and observational]
Everyone who says they don’t care
Is refreshing their phone on the stairs
The nicest guy always buying your time
Is just too afraid of being left behind
And the friends who swore they’d never leave
Vanished the moment you started to bleed
We dress it up and call it loyalty
But it’s just who’s around conveniently
[pre chorus, voice getting heavier]
We’re all just playing parts
In lives we didn’t write
Calling it living
When we’re barely surviving the night
[chorus, slow and aching]
Nobody’s okay we’re just good at the act
Nobody’s found it but nobody admits that
Everybody’s lost just too proud to confess
Everybody’s drowning but we’re calling it stress
Nobody’s okay
Nobody’s okay
[verse 2, sharper, more personal]
You didn’t fall out of love overnight
You just stopped choosing and called it not right
Ambition is fear dressed up in a suit
Terrified of dying as nobody’s news
And healing isn’t moving on like they say
It’s learning to carry the weight a new way
We preach about growth on a highlight reel
While nobody’s asking us how we really feel
[pre chorus]
We’re all just playing parts
In lives we didn’t write
Calling it living
When we’re barely surviving the night
[chorus]
Nobody’s okay we’re just good at the act
Nobody’s found it but nobody admits that
Everybody’s lost just too proud to confess
Everybody’s drowning but we’re calling it stress
Nobody’s okay
Nobody’s okay
[bridge, just voice and piano]
The dangerous one has nothing to prove
The loneliest person is performing for you
We scroll through lives that were never real
And punish ourselves for the way that we feel
More connected than ever yet completely alone
Smiling for strangers and crying at home
[final chorus, fuller, more desperate]
Nobody’s okay we’re just good at the act
Nobody’s found it but nobody admits that
Everybody’s lost just too proud to confess
Everybody’s drowning but we’re calling it stress
Nobody’s okay
Nobody’s okay
[outro, piano fading, last line spoken]
We all know it
We just never say it out loud

Sad indie folk pop, soft fingerpicked guitar, subtle piano, ghost drums, intimate and melancholy, observational lyrics, quiet devastation, 3am feeling, 70 BPM, C minor”