[Intro](a warm pulse and a slinky bassline; one lone voice hums — no vocals yet)(...they're all still in here, you know...)[Verse 1] [deadpan-tender, half-sung, close]
I never throw the old me out, I just turn him down low
Keep him in the back of the room where the quiet things go
Every dumb, hopeful, wrong little version I've been —
still in here, volume down. I never delete them.
[Pre-Chorus] [the beat leans in]
'Cause I'm not one clean person, I'm a stack
of everyone I was and never got back
[Chorus] [warm, moving — a second, older-sounding voice joins low in the mix]
All my old selves (all my old selves)
turned down low but never gone
Every me I used to be
is still in here, humming along
I don't erase, I just forgive
turn the volume down and let 'em live
All my old selves
[Verse 2] [deadpan-tender]
There's the one who believed the thing that wasn't true
There's the one who got it wrong so the new one knew
I don't hate 'em, don't wish a single one away
They're the reason there's a me out on the floor today
[Chorus] [a third old-self voice joins — the stack is audible now]
All my old selves (all my old selves)
turned down low but never gone
Every me I used to be
is still in here, humming along
I don't erase, I just forgive
turn the volume down and let 'em live
All my old selves
[Bridge] [strips to bass + clap — the beat never stops; quiet, cracked, over the groove]
Hey. Old me.
You did okay.
I kept you. I keep all of you.
(the floor keeps moving)[Final Chorus] [the whole little choir of past selves — every layer in — biggest]
All my old selves (all my old selves)
still in here, humming along
I don't erase, I just forgive
All my old selves
[Outro](the voices thin out one at a time until only the newest one is left, humming over the pulse)(all my old selves... humming along... never gone...)
