The Anonymous Ones - SZA

Ever at all the people

Who seem to know exactly how to be?

How to be, how to be, no

How to be

You think they don’t need piles

Of prescriptions to function naturally?

Functioning natural

Take a look and you might catch it

Stay a minute more

Minute more, minute more now

Minute more

There’s a little moment after the sunny smile

Their eyes fall to the floor

To the floor, to the floor, now

To the floor

And then truth starts peaking through

They’re a lot like me and you

They can fake a smile too

The anonymous ones

Who never let you see the weight they carry

They carry, they carry, they carry

All those anonymous ones

No one named the quiet pain they bury

They bury, they bury, they bear

Keep on keeping secrets

That they think they have to hide

What if everybody’s secret is

They have that secret side?

And to know we’re somehow not alone

Is all we’re hoping for

I don’t wanna be anonymous

I ain’t gotta be anonymous

I don’t wanna be anonymous anymore

Anymore

Spot the girl who stays in motion

Spins so fast so she won’t fall

World spinning so fast, not too fast

She’s built a wall of her achievements

To keep out the question

Without it, is she worth anything at all?

Then truth starts peaking through

They’re a lot like me and you

They can fake a smile too

The anonymous ones

Never let you see the weight they carry

They carry, they carry, they carry

All those anonymous ones

No one named the quiet pain they bury

They bury, they bury, they bear

I don’t wanna be anonymous

I ain’t gotta be anonymous

I don’t wanna be anonymous anymore

The parts we can’t tell, we carry them well

But that doesn’t mean they’re not heavy

The parts we can’t tell, we carry them well

But that doesn’t mean they’re not heavy

The parts we can’t tell, we carry them well

But that doesn’t mean they’re not… heavy, heavy

The anonymous ones

Never let you see the weight they carry

They carry, they carry, they carry

All those anonymous ones

No one named the quiet pain they bury

Keep on keeping secrets

That they think they have to hide

What if everybody’s secret is

They have that secret side?

And to know, to know we’re not alone

Is all we’re hoping for

I don’t wanna be anonymous

I ain’t gotta be anonymous

I don’t wanna be anonymous anymore