Didn't mean to measure

Описание: Didn’t Mean to Measure is about the quiet habit of comparing lives without noticing we’re doing it. It explores how ranking, advice, and distraction replace presence, and how real connection begins when we notice comparison in ourselves and choose to stay grounded instead.

[Verse 1 – Absent Presence]
You reach for your phone mid-sentence
Like the room got too small to stay
Eyes somewhere else, half listening
Nodding along, already away
You’re here, but not really
I feel the space between
A conversation still breathing
While you scroll past what I mean

[Verse 2 – Advice Without Attention]
You look up long enough to tell me
What I should’ve done by now
Like standing where you’re standing
Makes you an expert on how
You say, “You should know better,”
Like shame is something I missed
But you weren’t here for the questions
Or the cost of the choices I picked

[Verse 3 – Comparison Without Curiosity]
You compare my life to yours
From a distance safe and clean
Weigh the outcome, skip the context
Call it truth, call it seen
But you can’t know a story
You never stayed to hear
Power talks when presence leaves
And calls it helping from up here

[Chorus]
I was never behind.
We’re walking the same earth,
each in different ways.
I was never behind.
We’re walking the same earth,
each in different ways.

[Verse 4 – Noticing the Pattern]
I catch myself measuring the moment
Seeing where I land in your eyes
Feeling that old pull to rank us
To shrink or rise
I don’t push it away
I don’t let it decide
I just notice the story
And stay by my side

[Verse 5 – Choosing Connection]
I don’t need to be right here
Or prove I belong
I can set the phone down
And stay in the song
If I’m listening, I’m learning
If I’m here, I’m enough
Connection isn’t winning
It’s choosing to stay when it’s rough

[Chorus – Return]
I was never behind.
We’re walking the same earth,
each in different ways.
I was never behind.
We’re walking the same earth,
each in different ways.

[Outro – Connected]
No ladder between us.
No score to defend.

Just two lives meeting
Right here,

again....