Flatline Through Silver Linings

[start] [Verse 1]

I lit a match just to feel control

Burned the blueprint of a life I stole

Tired of choking on “you’ll be fine”

When I’m one bad thought from flatline

Phone full of ghosts I don’t text back

Friends turn to shadows, white turns to black

Punched through the walls of my teenage doubt

Now I’m screaming just to drown it out

Chorus

So don’t tell me I’m okay

I’ve been breaking the same way

If growing up means growing cold

Then let me burn before I fold

I’m not healing—I’m just hiding

Smiling through the silver lining

Tell the world I’m still not sold

I want the fire, not the gold[Verse 2]

Woke up tired in a stranger’s head

Chained to the guilt of words I never said

I laugh too loud to feel the crash

Spent my future like it’s petty cash

Cracked like vinyl, warped and worn

Knew who I was—then I was reborn

You call it reckless—I call it real

I’d rather hurt than never feel

Chorus

So don’t tell me I’m okay

I’ve been breaking the same way

If growing up means growing cold

Then let me burn before I fold

I’m not healing—I’m just hiding

Smiling through the silver lining

Tell the world I’m still not sold

I want the fire, not the gold[Bridge]

I won’t fake a smile just to make you stay

I’d rather bleed than fade away

You call this progress—I call it pain

If this is peace, then why’s it feel the same?

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Chorus

So don’t tell me I’m okay

I’ve been breaking the same way

If growing up means growing cold

Then let me burn before I fold

I’m not healing—I’m just hiding

Smiling through the silver lining

Tell the world I’m still not sold

I want the fire, not the gold [end]