Lyrics
[verse]
I keep reaching for the numbness like a friend
Something warm to swallow every time I break
Tell myself it's just to help the night to end
But I know it's just another wall I make
[verse]
There's a version of myself I used to trust
Before I traded clarity for haze
Every promise that I make just turns to dust
By the time I'm through another wasted phase
[chorus]
I'm trying to stay sober in a world that wants me numb
Trying to remember who I was before I'd come
Undone by every craving, every empty need
Just trying to stay sober, trying to break free
[verse]
The mirror shows a stranger with my tired eyes
Somebody who forgot the way back home
I keep hearing all your warnings, all your cries
But I keep choosing static over stone
[chorus]
I'm trying to stay sober in a world that wants me numb
Trying to remember who I was before I'd come
Undone by every craving, every empty need
Just trying to stay sober, trying to break free
[bridge]
Pull me back before I lose the fight
Pull me back into the honest light
I don't want the haze, I want the pain
If it means I get to feel again
[chorus]
I'm trying to stay sober in a world that wants me numb
Trying to remember who I was before I'd come
Undone by every craving, every empty need
Just trying to stay sober, trying to break free