Tomorrow's Weight

Intro — Male, spoken

I remembered tomorrow

That was the problem

Verse 1 — Male

I woke with tomorrow underneath my tongue

A memory of a place where I hadn't yet gone

I knew which tree would lose its final leaf

I knew the exact words I'd use

To make somebody leave

I knew the train that wouldn't arrive

The photograph that wouldn't exist

The stranger who would save my life

And the person I'd never get to kiss

So I stopped making choices

I stopped turning left or right

Because knowing every ending

made the future feel like a lie

Chorus — Male

I remembered tomorrow

Before tomorrow came

I knew every ending

But I couldn't change a thing

I thought knowing the future

Would make me finally free

But the moment you know everything

Nothing gets to surprise you

Verse 2 — Male

Then I met an old man

Who was carrying a box

He said, I've been looking for you

Since before you were born

I asked him what was inside it

He said, every choice you lost

I opened up the lid

And heard a thousand doors

Inside was a version of me

Who never walked away

Another who said everything

Another who chose to stay

One who became a stranger

To everyone he knew

And one who finally understood

that none of them were true

Male Rap — Fast, Intense

Listen

I thought foresight was a weapon

Till I realised it was weight

Every second predetermined

turning living into waiting

I could see the consequence

before I made the choice

So I slowly killed the meaning

of my own voice

I knew the conversation

I knew the hesitation

Knew the exact moment

I'd destroy the situation

Knew the exact apology

Knew when they'd forgive me

Knew the exact goodbye

that would eventually split me

But here's the contradiction

that nobody ever mentions

If you know where you're going

you stop experiencing the present

I became a prisoner

of predictions I'd created

Trying to outrun tomorrow

while tomorrow waited

Then I understood

The future isn't somewhere

that you're destined to arrive at

It's something you manufacture

every second that you're alive

So I stopped asking

What happens next

And started asking

What happens now

Bridge — Male, quiet

Tomorrow stopped speaking

For the first time

I could hear today

Final Chorus — Male, Huge

I remembered tomorrow

And I gave it back its name

I don't need every answer

I don't need to know the way

If tomorrow brings me sorrow

I'll meet it when it comes

I'd rather live one unknown moment

Than know a thousand endings

before they've begun

Outro — Male

Tomorrow was never a memory

It was a possibility

And I had mistaken the two