[Intro – spoken] Take it off. ... What? The mask. ... This is my face. No... That's the one you built for everybody else. In here... Nobody's hiding from you. Except you. [Verse 1] Look at you... Changing your colours before they've even spoken Borrowing laughs that were never your own Walking into every room already broken Calling it confidence... Calling it home You wear their anger like somebody earned it You wear their bitterness proud on your chest You copied every wound they never healed Then wondered why you never got to rest [Pre-Chorus] Tell me... Who are you trying to fool? Me? I've worn that mask. I know exactly where it came from. [Chorus] Take it the fuck off. You don't need it here. Nobody's handing out trophies For dying as somebody else. You're not protecting yourself anymore... You're hiding from the only one Who's still waiting. I'm fucking hollow... Every step I take Is somebody else's footprint. [Verse 2] You call the calm fake 'Cause chaos raised you Love feels suspicious Silence feels wrong You mistake being broken For having a backbone Then drag everybody else Into the same fucking song Why does everybody look at me like that? Can they tell? Can they see through it? Can they hear how rehearsed I sound? Every word feels borrowed. Every smile feels rented. [Pre-Chorus] You keep blaming the world... Mate... There's nobody here but us. [Chorus] Take it the fuck off. I'm not judging you. I'm calling you home. The fight finished years ago... You just never heard the whistle. You keep saluting ghosts While the kid you left behind Still doesn't know Why you never came back. [Bridge – stripped back] What the fuck's wrong with you? ... Me? No. You. ... I kept us alive. No... You kept us hidden. I made us stronger. No... You made us lonelier. Without me... We would've died. ... Without me... You would've remembered Who the fuck we were. [Break] ... I was me first. [Final Chorus] Look at me. Borrowed opinions. Borrowed confidence. Borrowed rage. Borrowed life. You spent so long Trying to become everybody else... You forgot the only person You never had to pretend to be. So... Take it off. Not because you're broken. Because you're safe. The mask did its job. Now let the kid Do his. [Outro] You thought you had to save him... Truth is... He's the only reason You're still worth saving.
