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Meaning behind my music

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“My Last Apology” is exactly what it sounds like.

For a long time, I lived in chaos and called it who I was. I hurt people I love, especially my family. There were nights I don’t think they knew if I was going to be okay and honestly, neither did I.

I used to apologize and then fall right back into the same patterns. Over and over again.

This song is different.

It’s not an apology followed by “but.” It’s not guilt without change. It’s me finally understanding what all of that actually cost, not just to me, but to the people who stayed when I made it hard to.

“You were standing in the damage, waiting for me to come home.”

They didn’t give up on me. So this is me choosing not to give up on myself anymore.

“I’m learning peace isn’t boring. it’s the life I almost lost.”

This song is a promise. Not that I’ll be perfect, but that I won’t glorify the chaos anymore. That I’ll choose stability, even when it’s uncomfortable. That I’ll keep showing up differently.

Not just saying sorry but living it.

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“The Knowing” is about learning to trust something I used to question.

For a long time, I didn’t know if my intuition was real or if I was just reading into things. Same with tarot, energy, all of it I kept wondering if it was just coincidence, or me trying to make meaning out of nothing.

But over time, it stopped feeling random.

Patterns started repeating. Feelings I couldn’t explain kept turning out to be right. And eventually, I had to stop dismissing it and actually listen.

This song is that shift.

It starts in that awareness picking up on things people aren’t saying, feeling something off before there’s proof. And then it turns into confidence. Not fear, not paranoia, just clarity.

“I don’t need your words, I don’t need your lies I see the truth crawling behind your eyes”

It’s not about being psychic or special. It’s about recognizing that inner voice and realizing it’s been trying to protect you the whole time.

“I used to doubt it… now I don’t question it anymore.”

That’s what this song is. Trusting your instincts. Trusting your energy. And not letting anyone make you second guess it again.

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“I Hurt You Back” is about toxic relationships and not pretending you’re innocent in them.

I’ve been in situations where things weren’t healthy, where it wasn’t just arguments or “rough patches,” it was constant. The kind of cycle where someone hurts you, and instead of walking away, you stay… and eventually you start hurting them back.

Not because it’s right. Just because it becomes normal.

This song isn’t about blaming one person. It’s about that back-and-forth damage, where both people are keeping it alive even when it’s clearly falling apart.

At some point you have to ask yourself is this love, or just habit? is this worth it, or am I just used to it?

Because yeah, relationships aren’t perfect. But they’re not supposed to feel like a constant war either.

And sometimes the hardest realization is that being alone isn’t the worst thing, staying in something that keeps breaking you is.

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“Brain on Fire” is probably the most honest song I’ve written, even when I didn’t want it to be.

For a long time, I thought everyone else was the problem.

Everyone had advice. Everyone had a plan. “Calm down.” “Take your meds.” “Just breathe.” And all of it felt fake like people were trying to control me, not help me.

When your brain feels like it’s on fire, “just breathe” doesn’t mean anything.

So I lashed out. I spiraled. I pushed people away and told myself I was just reacting to what they were doing to me.

This song lives inside that mindset for most of it the paranoia, the anger, the feeling like you’re fighting something no one else can see.

But it doesn’t stay there.

Because eventually, it caught up to me.

There was a moment where everything snapped into something worse psychosis, losing control completely, being restrained. And that was the first time I couldn’t spin it into “everyone else is wrong.”

That ending “maybe I’m broken… maybe they’re right” that’s not dramatic. That’s the realization I didn’t want.

This song isn’t me blaming other people, and it’s not me excusing what I did either. It’s both sides colliding the version of me that felt hunted, and the reality of what I became in that state.

I think that’s why it’s uncomfortable.

Because for most of the song, I still sound convinced I’m right.

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“I’m The Bad Girl” is about what happens when people decide who you are before you even get the chance to speak.

Small towns are loud in a quiet way. Everyone knows something, everyone’s heard a version of the story but it’s never actually yours.

I started hearing things about myself that didn’t even feel real anymore. Some of it had truth in it. A lot of it didn’t. But once people decide you’re the villain, they don’t really care about the difference.

So I stopped trying to correct it.

This song is me leaning into that role they wrote for me taking the rumors, the exaggerations, the “meltdown headlines” and throwing it right back.

“If you need a monster, I’ll take a bow.”

It’s sarcastic, it’s bitter, but it’s also honest. Because underneath all of that is the part people didn’t see the nights that weren’t dramatic or entertaining, just heavy and real.

“You know the mask, but not the eyes.”

At some point, you realize you can’t control what people say. But you can decide whether you let it define you or whether you own it and turn it into something louder than their version.

This is mine.

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“Not Your System” came from a day where something in me almost snapped.

I was in the psych ward, being told one thing that gave me hope something small, but enough to make me feel human again. And then later, it got taken back like it never mattered.

It shouldn’t have hit as hard as it did, but it did.

I remember feeling this pressure building up, like I needed to explode just to be heard. But instead, I went to my room and wrote everything I couldn’t say out loud.

This song is that moment.

It’s the feeling of being reduced to a chart, a label, a “case.” Being watched, documented, managed but not actually understood. It’s anger, but it’s also exhaustion. It’s wanting control over your own mind in a place where everything about you is controlled.

“I’m not a barcode I’m not your file I’m not your system I’m not your trial”

That’s the core of it.

I didn’t write this to be dramatic. I wrote it because it was the only way to get through that moment without losing myself.

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Small Town / Bigger Secrets

“Small Town / Bigger Secrets” is about addiction and what it takes to walk away from it.

I wrote it while I was trying to rebuild my life, knowing I couldn’t keep going the way I was. Part of that meant leaving people behind not out of hate, and not because I think I’m better than them, but because I needed to survive.

That doesn’t make it easy.

I still care about them. I still want them to find a way out too.

We shared a lot long nights, intense moments, connections that felt unbreakable at the time. But looking back, a lot of it was built on pain, on escape, on something that couldn’t last.

This song sits in that space between love and distance.

Between who I was, and who I’m trying to become.

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Nervous System Reboot *SONG*

“Nervous System Reboot” started as a journal entry, something I wrote when the anger had nowhere else to go.

It came from being around people who used my illness against me. The ones who reduced me to labels crazy, stupid, an addict....like that was all I was.

That kind of weight sticks with you. Even when you try to ignore it, it lingers.

This song was a way to take that back.

To turn something meant to break me into something I built for myself.

I didn’t just survive what they called me. I proved I’m more than it.

This is what that sounds like.

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Poltergeist

“Poltergeist” started as a poem I wrote in the psych ward.

I was at one of my lowest points, trying to make sense of a mind that felt like it was turning against me. Everything felt distorted, like something inside me had broken and wouldn’t stop echoing.

I remember the ambulance ride more than anything. Restrained, terrified, with the sound of sirens looping in my head long after they were gone. It stayed with me. This was the only way I knew how to get it out.

I wrote it years ago, I can’t even remember exactly when. Those times blur together.

But when I came back to it, something had changed.

I wasn’t in that place anymore.

This is the first year in a long time that I haven’t experienced psychosis. So I took something that once felt dark and suffocating, and reshaped it into something lighter, something that feels like movement, like healing.

“Poltergeist” is both versions of me existing at once..the one who was trapped in it, and the one who made it out.

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Soul Eater (!!TRIGGER WARNING!! unaliving)

“Soul Eater” is about losing someone who once meant everything to me.

He was my first love. We built a life together, even if it feels like it was from another lifetime now. I never stopped caring about him, I always wanted him to find peace, to become the person he deserved to be.

Losing him to suicide is something I’m still trying to understand. It’s heavy in a way that doesn’t really go away.

This song is for him.

The title comes from an anime we used to watch together something that used to feel simple and good. Now it carries a different weight.

Some memories stay soft. Others stay with you forever.

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Behind My Eyes

“Behind My Eyes” is about what I experienced during psychosis.

It’s everything I saw, everything I felt.....everything that was real to me in those moments.

Psychosis is one of those things people don’t talk about. It gets brushed off, misunderstood, or labeled as “crazy.” But living through it is something else entirely. It’s not distant or abstract, it’s immediate, it’s consuming, and it’s terrifying because you don’t know it isn’t real.

This song is me opening that door.

Every lyric comes directly from what I went through, what I believed, what I saw, and where it ultimately led me when I was hospitalized.

This is what it looked like from behind my eyes.

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1. Warning Signs

“Warning Signs” is about the moment before I lose control from a manic episode.

It starts as a high confidence that feels infinite, like I’m untouchable, like I’ve stepped outside of myself and into something bigger. Almost god like.

But it doesn’t stay that way.

It creeps in quietly, then all at once. The line between clarity and chaos disappears, and I can’t tell the difference anymore. What feels powerful to me looks destructive to everyone else.

And the worst part is knowing it’s happening… but not being able to stop it.

This song lives in that space, the rise, the distortion, and the fall that follows.

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What is Nervous System Reboot about?

Nervous System Reboot is a hybrid of my real voice and AI.

I’ve always loved music and always wanted to make my own, but when I reached out to local musicians years ago, no one really took me seriously. So when I discovered I could use AI to help bring my ideas to life, I jumped on it.

Metalcore has been my favorite genre since I was 11 back when I was exploring MySpace and whatever sites we were all using around 2008/09. That era shaped so much of who I am.

Bands like Bring Me The Horizon were a huge inspiration for this EP. Their music helped me through a lot, and I connected deeply with their lyrics. I don’t think I would’ve healed the same way without it. They made me want to tell my own story too and I always wished I could do that through music. Now, I finally can.

This wasn’t something I threw together in a few minutes. I spent hours, days, weeks on each track tweaking and reworking them until they felt right. There are so many rough versions that might see the light of day someday, but these are the ones that felt complete.

Every lyric is 100% mine. This EP is about my mental health and my struggles with addiction. It was a way to release everything I had built up inside and turning it into something I love helped me heal parts of myself I didn’t even realize needed it. Most of the songs are journal entires when I was in the psychward on involuntarily holds. If you choose to listen to this EP, I appreciate you SO much and I hope it can connect with you the same way other music has connected with me. Available everywhere!

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Listen to “Poltergeist” now!! 💙❤️💙

Stream everywhere!

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This project is more than just music to me.

Nervous System Reboot (Part One) and Nervous System OverDrive (Part Two) are pieces of my real life real experiences, real pain, real moments that changed me.

Every lyric comes from something I’ve actually lived through, not just something I imagined.

Turning those experiences into music has been one of the biggest weights off my shoulders. It’s like taking everything that once hurt me and giving it a voice instead of letting it stay trapped inside.

This project means more to me than I can fully put into words. It’s healing, it’s release and it’s me, completely unfiltered.

Thank you to anyone who listens and connects with it. 🖤

Part One leans into a heavy metalcore sound raw, aggressive, and unfiltered.

Part Two shifts into a darker, more atmospheric space where dark pop meets metalcore, blending melody with that same intensity in a different way.

Nervous System Reboot Part 1 - 3.27.26 💙❤️💙

1. Warning Signs

2. Behind My Eyes

3. Soul Eater

4. Poltergeist

5. Nervous System Reboot

6. Small Town / Bigger Secrets

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Nervous System OverDrive Part 2 - 4.10.26 💚🩷💚

1. Not Your System

2. I’m The Bad Girl

3. Brain On Fire

4. I Hurt You Back

5. The Knowing

6. My Last Apology