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Lyric

Main Character Down

DOHAN

Walk in clean with the whole room lit

Head up high like I own this hit

Gold in my voice when I talk that talk

Big on the screen when I make that walk

Everybody loves when I play that role

Fire in the eyes, got a lock on the goal

Hands in the air when I call that sound

Whole world up when I hold it down

Backstage door and the noise cuts thin

Same cold wall when I’m back within

Chain on still but the chest feels drowned

Funny how kings still hit the ground

I know how to give them the spark

I know how to look like art

But when the crowd goes black

Something in me falls apart

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Crown on my head but it’s slipping now

Say my name loud, say it right out loud

Still goes quiet when the lights go out

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Built that face just to wear it proud

Whole room shakes when I move like thunder

Why do I break when I’m six feet under it

Post that shot, let the numbers rise

Sharp jaw line and the fearless eyes

Talk real big like I never bend

Like I don’t crack when the nights don’t end

Too many mirrors, too many takes

Too many moves that a body fakes

Too much pressure in a clean-cut frame

Too much smoke in a famous name

Phone on mute but it still feels loud

Even alone got a phantom crowd

One more win and they want one more

Blood in the grin when I hit that floor

I know how to turn that pain

Into a pose they call insane

But when the pulse drops low

I don’t know who survives the stage

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Main character down

Crown on my head but it’s slipping now

Say my name loud, say it right out loud

Still goes quiet when the lights go out

Main character down

Main character down

Built that face just to wear it proud

Whole room shakes when I move like thunder

Why do I break when I’m six feet under it

Don’t tell me stand up pretty

Don’t tell me die for the scene

I gave the room my fury

What did I leave for me

If I go still for a minute

If I say I’m not okay

Will they love the one who’s in it

Not just the one on display

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No more hiding in the holy sound

I can be fierce, I can still fall hard

Both can live in the same bruised heart

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Main character down

Let that truth hit harder now

If the mask drops, let it hit the floor

I’m not less when I can’t be war

Crowd fades out

Breath comes back

No grand end

Just a crack

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And still intact

  • Lyricist

    Adrian Mercer

  • Composer

    Yejun Kwon

  • Producer

    Jinwoo Baek

  • Vocals

    DOHAN

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A 12-track debut about living youth between the bright confident self made for display and the private self carrying anxiety loneliness and unspoken truth

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