Phone light blinkin’ like it’s urgent
Missed call stackin’, subject urgent
Calendar red like a warning curtain
No one ask if I’m still hurtin’

Inbox full of “quick reminder”
Deadlines climbin’ higher, tighter
Every role I carry louder
Every voice demandin’ faster

Can’t slow.
Can’t stall.

If I trip, I risk it all
So I steady up the fall
Like it never happened at all

They don’t see the crack beneath
They just see what I achieve
Pressure don’t take time to grieve
It just adds and adds to me

There’s no off switch
When the world still spins
No off switch
When you’re the one they lean on

No off switch
Even when you’re thin
No off switch
You just keep it movin’

Every text say “Need you now”
Every task got sacred vows
Reputation don’t allow
Room to figure out how

I just broke but there’s no space
To sit inside that fragile place
Momentum don’t erase
What it cost to keep the pace

Hands shake
But I hide it

Smile tight
And divide it
Every doubt compartmentalized
So it don’t destabilize

It’s too loud to hear myself
Too fast to feel the help
If I pause, I’m someone else
And that don’t fit the shelf

There’s no off switch
When the load won’t lift
No off switch
When you’re built like this

No off switch
When the clock won’t slip
No off switch
You just keep it movin’

I don’t want to be
The axis of everything
I don’t want to feel
Like I can’t let anything fall

But if I don’t hold it
Who holds it?

There’s no off switch
When they all depend
No off switch
When you can’t pretend

No off switch
Till you hit the edge
No off switch
No off—

…switch.