Lyric

Notifications off, screen stay dark

No red lights pulling at my heart

If it’s real, it’ll still be there

I don’t need it hitting me everywhere

Notifications off, world can wait

I don’t answer at their pace

I don’t vanish, I just pause

I choose quiet, that’s the cost

Every buzz feel like demand

Every ping another hand

Trying to pull me out my skin

Tell me where I should begin

They say “miss it and you fall”

Like attention is the law

I been drowning in the call

Now I step away from all

Silence feel uncomfortable

When you’re used to being fed

Every update, every take

Living rent-free in my head

So I cut the sound mid-sentence

Let the moment finish clean

I don’t need the constant proof

That I’m visible or seen

Notifications off, screen stay dark

No red lights pulling at my heart

If it’s real, it’ll still be there

I don’t need it hitting me everywhere

Notifications off, world can wait

I don’t answer at their pace

I don’t vanish, I just pause

I choose quiet, that’s the cost

They confuse noise with being close

Think replying means you care

I been present in my absence

More than I was standing there

I don’t owe my time to urgency

Or my focus to the feed

If it needs me right this second

It probably don’t need me

I don’t track what I’m missing

I don’t count who passed me by

If it’s meant to reach me later

It will find me when it’s time

Maybe peace need distance

Maybe space is how I heal

I don’t need to know everything

To know what I feel

They keep tapping on the glass

I don’t look, I don’t react

Not ignoring what is real

Just declining the attack

Notifications off, screen stay dark

No red lights pulling at my heart

If it’s real, it’ll still be there

I don’t need it hitting me everywhere

Notifications off, world can wait

I don’t answer at their pace

I don’t vanish, I just pause

I choose quiet, that’s the cost

I get back to me this way

When the static fades away

Every thought gets room to land

Every breath goes unplanned

If they call it falling back

Let them frame it how they want

I’m not gone, I’m just intact

That’s the trade I’m comfortable on

Notifications off

I’m still here

Just unreachable