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All Falls Down

Written Mon Jun 02 2025

I think I’m too judgmental Let me break it down real simple All of us is really in this pot together Try hard as you want but one day you’ll forget your umbrella

See it’s like any one of us could be that poor blubbering whore in the corner No matter how tall you stand you can still fall Be poor, spill lying on the floor awaiting the coroner

We all only a bad thing away from a bad day And a bad day away from a really bad place So it’s my empathy I oughtta be flexing Hard times taught me some hard lessons

When you see that girl having a breakdown It’s time to slow down Let her bask in your love Tell her she beautiful, give her a hug Help her bind her heartstrings back when the devil starts to tug

I didn’t know what it was like to have neural demons peeking from the shadows With a reaper breathing down my neck Only until the moment I started wallow in front of all of my friends Scared they’d never like me again I was terrified to death

I didn’t understand till I held my mama close at rock bottom I heard my brother panic thinking the monsters had gotten him I protected my sisters and I told ‘em I got them I helped my granny sort out her problems Till I was the star student who dropped right oughtta college

So who you gonna call when it falls down? Yeah I stole Ye’s verse and I turned it around He's the one that needs to hear it most right now When I’m with my friends I got tears in my eyes But no reason to frown Only in real-time did I begin to realize when I saw it from another girls eyes

Never again will I tell a bitch to get it together I’ll offer my hand, we gonna survive whatever

Tessa Painter - 2025

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