THIS SADNESS - Jake Gallaway (Official Audio)

Описание: "I'm looking at the blueprints... comparing the garden... to the graveyard. It's a... fucking... tragedy."

I wake up in the shadow of the man I was supposed to be—a ghost that stands at the foot of the bed, judging me. The "good enough" mark is a line I can't ever reach. I'm cataloging the person I wasn't and the things I'm not. The gap is a canyon between the glory and the wasted youth, and I'm standing right in the middle. It's not just my life—it's a world's worth of waste. Lives that could have been mountains, turned into dust. We're all just ghosts of the people we should've been, stuck in the wreckage of the "might have been."

"This Sadness" is about living in the space where potential dies and tragedy grows. It's the exhausting grief of comparing what is to what should have been, the weight of wasted years, and the bitter poison of never being good enough. The gap is where I live. The gap is home.

This is Jake Gallaway. Unfiltered.

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LYRICS:
[Intro]
i'm looking at the blueprints... (the blueprints)
comparing the garden... to the graveyard.
it's a... fucking... tragedy.
[Verse 1]
i wake up in the shadow / of the man i was supposed to be.
a ghost that stands / at the foot of the bed / judging me.
the "good enough" mark / is a line i can't... ever... reach.
a lesson i'm learning / but i'm too broken / to teach.
it's the wasted hours... the wasted years...
the potential left to rot.
i'm cataloging the person / i wasn't / and the things i'm not.
the world should be kinder... should be better... should be more.
but i'm just staring... at the same... bloodstains... on the floor.
[Prechorus]
the gap is a canyon... the gap is the TRUTH.
the distance between the glory / and the wasted youth.
and i'm standing... (standing)
right in the middle.
[Chorus]
this is the tragedy / of how it should have been.
the difference between the beauty / and the filth we're in.
i live in the space / where the good... never... shows.
where the potential dies... and the tragedy grows.
it's not just my life / it's a world's worth / of waste.
a bitter... fucking... poison...
that i'm forced... to taste.
[Verse 2]
i see it in the streets / in the eyes / of the walking dead.
the masterpieces / that stayed trapped / inside their head.
lives that could have been mountains / turned into dust.
eroded by the pressure / and the silence / and the rust.
and when they decide / to finally / close the book...
the cowards turn away... 'cause they're too scared... to look.
but i see the bravery / in opting for the end.
when the tragedy's a weight / that the world / can't bend.
[Bridge]
the world is a graveyard / of lives that never started.
the dreamers... the believers... the brokenhearted.
we're all just / ghosts / of the people we should've been.
stuck in the wreckage / of the "might have been."
there is no "good" to find / i've looked / under every stone.
we're just tragedy / wrapped up / in skin / and bone.
[Final Chorus]
i live in the space / where the good... never... shows.
where the potential dies... and the tragedy grows.
it's not just my life / it's a world's worth / of waste.
a bitter... fucking... poison...
that i'm forced... to taste.
...
forced... to taste.
[Outro]
a life wasted... (wasted)
never good enough.
the gap is where i live...
the gap is home.
i'm looking at the blueprints... (the blueprints)
comparing the garden... to the graveyard.
it's a... fucking... tragedy.

🎼 CREDITS:
Written & Performed by: Jake Gallaway
Produced by: DJCLAWED

Genre: UK Grime / Orchestral / Narrative
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