Featured In
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
NF
Vocals
Saint X
Programming
Tommee Profitt
Background Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Tommee Profitt
Songwriter
Nate Feuerstein
Songwriter
Cole Walowac
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
NF
Producer
Tommee Profitt
Producer
Saint X
Producer
Mike Bozzi
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Hey (Leave me alone)
[Verse 2]
Panic-stricken
Handle business, not a joke
Yeah, manners missing
Travel different, no control
Yeah, time to listen
Time to zip it, keep it closed
My description
Highly gifted, take some notes
Yeah, lack of interest?
Why'd you visit? Hit the road
Yeah, I'm kinda twisted
So keep your distance, be a ghost
Yeah, see I'm inventive
But quite the menace, you ain't know?
Well, then I'm offended
Let's jog your memories, here we go
[Verse 3]
Yeah, I went from nobody to kinda famous
Hide my plaques inside the closet, I just can't explain it
My wife, she tells me that she's proud and thinks that I should hang 'em
But I just leave 'em on the ground right next to my self-hatred
Yeah, yeah, mental health, where's my mental health?
Diagnosed with OCD, what does that mean?
Well gather 'round
That means I obsessively obsess on things I think about
That means I might take a normal thought and think it's so profound
[Verse 4]
Ruminating
Fill balloons up full of doubts
Do the same things, if I don't I'm overwhelmed
Thoughts are pacing, they go 'round and 'round and 'round
It's so draining, let's move on to something else
[Verse 5]
Fine
Runnin' the game but they don't even know it
Like I'm undercover and don't wanna blow it
I come out of nowhere they don't even notice
The flow is so cold you would think it was snowin'
I'm under the weather but wind isn't blowing
I got an umbrella for difficult moments
You gotta admit it, I'm very devoted
I'm out in the rain but it don't always open, so I
[Verse 6]
Hold up my balloons and cover up my face
I can feel them weighin' on me every day
I should let 'em go and watch them float away
But I'm scared if I do then I'll be more afraid
Tell them how I feel but they don't wanna change
Tell them how I feel but they remain the same
Loosen up my grip, they say that's not okay
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
Leave me alone
[Verse 7]
Ay, yeah
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
Leave me alone
Wooh, yeah
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
Leave me alone
[Verse 8]
I hate when they debate if we're underrated
We're so overlooked that they're lookin' over our numbers Nathan
We don't do enough interviews or go out in public lately
We don't post enough on our socials to keep the buzz from fading
Let it fade, yeah, let it fade, once it's decimated
Then you drop a song outta nowhere and all the fans embrace it
Then the buzz will surface again, it's part of my operation
I don't need advice from my doubts right now, end of conversation
[Verse 9]
Shut your mouth, yeah, shut your mouth
Better tone it down
Close it now, if you make a sound I'ma change the dial
Funny how they be actin' loud
Come in unannounced
Floating 'round, "man this kid is wild
Pretty vile", true
[Verse 10]
I'm kinda funny but don't really show it
I keep it together but have a disorder
I go to my room and I sit in my corner
And talk to myself in a language that's foreign
I think of a rhyme and I have to record it
But know if I don't, I'll wake up in the mornin'
And question my life again, always avoiding
I hate to be different but I hate to be normal
So I
[Verse 11]
Hold up my balloons and cover up my face
I can feel them weighin' on me every day
I should let 'em go and watch them float away
But I'm scared if I do then I'll be more afraid
Tell them how I feel but they don't wanna change
Tell them how I feel but they remain the same
Loosen up my grip, they say that's not okay
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
Leave me alone
[Verse 12]
Ay, yeah
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
Leave me alone
Wooh, yeah
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
Leave me alone
[Verse 13]
Remember back in NO NAME I said fame called?
Told you I hung up, it kind of felt wrong
Finally called him back, we didn't talk long
He asked me how I'd been, I sent him this song
Yeah, think he took offence, he kinda seemed off
I texted him that night to ask what he thought
It took a couple days to get a response
But once I finally did he said the song sucks
[Verse 14]
View the symptoms, couldn't miss 'em
Wrestled with them, then I pin and flip 'em
Brought some back up, no well you should get some
Who you dissin'?
Mood is switchin', don't come in the kitchen
You should listen, cookin' records for my hands are blisterin'
[Verse 15]
So persistent, don't forget this
Hold the tension, soul is bending
No pretendin', open-ended
No percentage, so demented
Whole consensus, flow tremendous
No apprentice, no incentive
Show intensive, so possessive
Tone aggressive, watch your step when I
[Verse 16]
Hold up my balloons and cover up my face
I can feel them weighin' on me every day
I should let 'em go and watch them float away
But I'm scared if I do then I'll be more afraid
[Verse 17]
Leave me alone, leave me alone, yeah
Leave me alone, leave me alone
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Leave me alone, leave me alone, yeah (Yeah, leave me alone)
Leave me alone, leave me alone
Ay, leave me alone
[Verse 18]
Ay, yeah
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
Leave me alone
Wooh, yeah
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
Leave me alone
Ay, yeah
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
Leave me alone
Wooh, yeah
Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, ay
(Leave me alone)
Written by: Cole Walowac, Nate Feuerstein, Tommee Profitt