WINTER DEPRESSION

Verse 1

The sun clocks out before I do

Grey settles into everything

Days feel shorter than my breath

Nights don’t promise sleep

I wear the cold like second skin

Smile like it’s a job I keep

Everyone says “it will pass”

But winter never speaks

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Pre-Chorus

I don’t feel sad, I don’t feel fine

Just somewhere stuck between

Like my heart forgot the reason

Why it ever used to beat

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Chorus

This is winter depression

When the light won’t stay

When getting out of bed

Feels like walking through pain

This is winter depression

Not loud, not extreme

Just a slow kind of drowning

In the cold of me

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Verse 2

Christmas lights feel out of place

Laughing at my quiet days

Every song about “joy”

Sounds like it’s from another age

I cancel plans, I lose the hours

Time melts into one long night

I’m not giving up on living

I’m just tired of the fight

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Pre-Chorus 2

I don’t need advice or blame

I don’t need to “think it through”

Sometimes staying is the bravest thing

A body learns to do

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Chorus

This is winter depression

Heavy in the chest

Where hope feels theoretical

And rest doesn’t rest

This is winter depression

I’m still here somehow

If surviving is a victory

I’ll take it for now

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Bridge

Maybe healing isn’t sudden

Maybe light arrives in lines

Through the cracks in frozen windows

Through the mercy of time

I don’t need to feel inspired

I don’t need to feel okay

If I make it to tomorrow

That’s enough for today

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Final Chorus

This is winter depression

But it’s not the end

It’s a season, not a sentence

It will bend

This is winter depression

And I’m learning to stay

Not strong, not fearless

Just alive

Day by day

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Outro

The sun will come back quietly

It always does, they say

Until then I’ll keep breathing

Through the cold

Through the grey