[Intro: Laura Mvula]
Hey there you, looking for brighter season
Need to lay your burden down
Hey there you, drowning in a helpless feeling
Buried under deeper ground

[Verse One]
Lost in the fog, I go against what I'm preachin'
Slavin', without a day off, I'm busy even on weekends
Loss after loss and I cannot get a day of bereavement
Misguided, misunderstood, and vindictive from how I'm how I'm treated
I see me a walking error, doing wrong just by breathin'
Paranoid and I'm fiendin', sativa, it numbs my feelings
I'm happy 'til I come down from my high, I'm hangin' from ceilings
And crashin' through carpet off it, so it's now back to my grievance
I tried to come back a few years back tryna tell ya'll a story
But chapters get added to my book that makes the rest seem corny
I never want a group of people down to kneel before me
I just want them in the crowd screamin', seeing me performing
And since I had dreads, I was lost on life's meaning
I had put it in my head that I'd escape this trap, singing
My heart was once full of love, now it's all pity
Sad, so I drive 'til I crash, Vice City

[Bridge: Laura Mvula]
Hey there you
Try to stand up on your own two feet, and, stumblin'
Hey there you
Try to stand up on your own two feet, and, stumblin'
Hey there you
Try to stand up on your own two feet, and, stumblin'
Through the sky
Through-through the sky

[Verse Two]
PTSD, when sleeping I'm seeing corpses
This ain't how intended to live my life all the courses been failing
My family failed me I wish that I'd been aborted
Someone sell me a tab cause I'm happier in distortion
Sober, I feel I'm scorching, sad, that I'm unimportant an unimpressed that these antidepressants did nothing for me
Overdosed, only 14, MB4, in recording, Studio dropped I dropped on the floor, and felt I was morphing
Xanax dropped in some Red Bull, effective but wouldn't work towards me working just slowed my ethic and damaged me started learning that I'm an addict, only heard static while I was squirming
Been scratching every now and then bloods steady spurting
Older that I get remain lost, on life's meaning
The escape I found was death, to take me out and stop my screaming
The ones I thought showed my love, shit was all pity, hands off the wheel, tryna crash, fuck Vice City!

[Bridge: Laura Mvula]
Hey there you
Try to stand up on your own two feet, and, stumblin'
Hey there you
Try to stand up on your own two feet, and, stumblin'
Hey there you
Try to stand up on your own two feet, and, stumblin'
Through the sky
Through-through the sky

[Hook: Laura Mvula (reversed)]
Hey there you
When the lights go out and you're on your own
Hey there you
When the lights go out and you're on your own
Hey there you
When the lights go out and you're on your own
Hey there you
When the lights go out and you're on your own

[Bridge: Laura Mvula]
Hey there you
Try to stand up on your own two feet, and, stumblin'
Hey there you
Try to stand up on your own two feet, and, stumblin'
Hey there you
Try to stand up on your own two feet, and, stumblin'
Through the sky
Through-through the sky