Witt Lowry - If You Don’t Like the Story Write Your Own lyrics

Had to let go of who I thought I
Should be to find who I am
Don't mean the edited one for the 'Gram
But I mean the one who needs love
Has fear and doubt
And only comes out around fam
See, I'm just a man, I bleed and it's red
Been tryin' to quiet the voice in my head
Too weak to repeat all the
Things that it says
You're destined to slip when you
Live on the edge and I'm doin' my best
But it's never enough it's always, "Hey
When you gon' follow this up?"
I give 'em so much of myself, my art
My soul there isn't much lеft in my cup
Not prayin' enough, don't know who to trust
Don't follow for follow, I follow my gut
There is no morе room for discourse anymore
It's "I'm right and you're wrong
And agree or shut up"


What in the fuck? When will we learn?
Together we grow, and divided we burn
There's over seven billion of us on Earth
And here I am talkin'
'bout puttin' me first
And all of my hurt, like anyone cares
I have a tendency to overshare
Crazy to look at a sea full of people
And still feel like there isn't anyone there
As everyone stares, I swear that I'm fine
Tears streamin' outta both of my eyes
They love to see all this
Raw and real emotion
So they can upload it online
This story is mine, they took and rewrote it
They'll do anything for a click
And they post it but never with credit
My art has been lessened to trends
While people pretend like they own it
Okay, duly noted, things change in due time
Things that I wanted all losin' their shine
Now all I want is to text
Or to talk to my dad
But know I'll never get a reply
And that weighs on my mind
Not tryin' to harp
But I have to live with this hole in my heart
And maybe the only real way that I know how
To cope is by losin' myself in the art
I said things that were harsh
And I never meant
I let discontent really mess with my head
So many things that I wish I
Had done and had said
Before I never saw him again
Time that I make amends and
Pull back the curtain
I barely was there, even when he was hurtin'
And I think of that, I think, "Damn
What a terrible son"
And I question myself as a person
A human still learnin'

Huh just a human still learnin' (Uh, uh)
Know I'll never be perfect
That's the only thing certain, yeah

Someone mentioned the music was
Savin' their life
They relate to it so much it hurts
And I thought to myself, "I'm
So glad I could help
But it's you who put in all the work"
So don't give me credit 'cause I'm just a
Human who loses himself in his words
I wonder if Steve ever thought that one day
We'd be treatin' an app like a church
And hold up these content
Creators and athletes
And artists as if they were gods
Until we decide they no longer have value
Then they're thrown away and forgot
See, honestly, all that we are is a
Sum of our vices, our fears, and our flaws
And then at the end, we end up in a box and
Can't bring anything that we bought
All the things that we're not
Make us who we are
Nobody thought I would make it this far
Used to shoot for the sky
'til I realized that it
Had been proven that humans are
Made out of stars
I spill out my heart, it's all that I know
Never been good at just lettin' shit go
Do you know how it feels to
Sink all that you have
In your craft and still feel
Like there's nothin' to show?
This here is a poem, a letter, a song
I don't know where in the fuck I belong
There's nothin' more lonely than
Bein' surrounded by people
Yet all of your people are wrong
I feel like a pawn, I feel like I'm trapped
There's people I miss I can never get back
But been learnin' that life's not about
How much water we have
It's about how we look at the
Glass, that's a lot to unpack, yeah

Dan said "Jump on a track
Give 'em all that you have" yeah
Ever since, I don't know what
It's like to hold back, yeah
When the story's authentic, you
Don't need to act, yeah
Never needed to act, yeah
There's concepts I need to explore
And feelings I can't just ignore
Who cares what you do, who you doin' it for?
Oh my
How the tables have turned since I used
To serve food that I couldn't afford
Mom and Dad got divorced
Mom just got remarried for most of my life
Thought commitment was scary
But now I don't know
Some places you can't take a road
If you don't like the story
You should write your own