The Successor Lyrics

There is no real tragedy here

There is no real tragedy here

The only real tragedy

Is the way time weaves

The only real tragedy

Is a friend who grows up and leaves

The only real tragedy is my mind

It's older than my time here

Just a kid to you, but I'm so much more

More intelligent, an overthinker who always observes

Please just, let me in

Don't let me be just your replacement

To take over in the absence

Of an older friend

Please just, let me in

You have me telling you everything

I should've been quieter, stronger

You see me as an equal but for how much longer

The only real tragedy

Is I made a personality

Out of being useful

Now instead I'm vulnerable

The only real tragedy

Is I've gotten familiar with dependency

And now I fear an ending

Where I'm left alone longing

Please just, let me in

Don't let me be just your replacement

To take over in the absence

Of an older friend

Please just, let me in

You have me telling you everything

I should've been quieter, stronger

You see me as an equal, but for how much longer?

Why do things no longer rhyme?

Fearing missing out like it's the end of time

I could really help I swear, did I fail somewhere?

Let me redeem myself, be the machine again

Suppress the emotions, be independent

Let me be a worthy friend

But you sit in the dark

And don't tell anyone

Break down in your car?

You don't tell anyone

And you don't owe

Me a thing

But please God

Just trust me

Cause I've

Sat in your car

So I wouldn't be alone

Told you things

I can't tell anyone

And you don't owe me a thing

But if I can trust you

Why can't you trust me?

I wanna matter to you

I wanna be worth your time

I wanna be the best friend I can be

Why did you befriend me?

Am I someone you want to fix?

Am I someone you want to teach?

Am I your prodigy who doesn't miss

The kid that you want to see win?

Was I meant to be your successor?

How can I be any better?

You said you didn't me to end up like you

Well guess what, too bad, that's coming true

Maybe it feels like betrayal

To see you want to leave this town so bad

You made me lay out all my cards on the table

And you're just turning your back

But I can't keep doing this

Relying on your approval

I'd have to kill myself to live

As the person, I think you want me to be

But all I can hear is your voice saying

"You'll destroy yourself in this process

You know this is all in your head

Kid, you're overthinking again

Will you for once believe what I just said?"