I've been holding my breath
I've been counting to ten
Over something you said
I've been holding back tears
While you're throwing back beers
I'm alone in bed
[Pre-Chorus]
You know I, I'm afraid of change
Guess that's why we stay the same
[Chorus]
So tell me to leave
I'll pack my bags, get on the road
Find someone that loves you
Better than I do, darling, I know
'Cause you remind me every day
I'm not enough, but I still stay
[Verse 2]
Feels like a lifetime
Just tryna get by
While we're dying inside
I've done a lot of things wrong
Loving you being one
But I can't move on
You know I, I'm afraid of change
Guess that's why we stay the same
[Chorus]
So tell me to leave
I'll pack my bags, get on the road
Find someone that loves you
Better than I do, darling, I know
'Cause you remind me every day
I'm not enough, but I still stay
[Bridge]
If you want me to leave
Then tell me to leave and, baby I'll go
[Outro]
You remind me every day
I'm not enough, but I still stay
About
“July” is the sixth track and first single on Noah Cyrus' second EP, THE END OF EVERYTHING. It was accompanied by a music video on the same day of the release. The song is about heartbreak and leaving a toxic relationship.
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this one is really emotional for me and extremely heart felt. thank you to Peter Harding and Michael Sonier for making me feel comfortable enough to open up and write this song. i wrote this about a time when i felt like i amounted to nothing to someone and never felt good enough for them. i stayed in fear of the heart break tho my heart was already in a million pieces. anyway its out now heres a piece of my life that made a huge impact on me.
I was in Bali for a writing camp and it was my second year. But this year I’d been overwhelmed with anxiety and so I was really scared of the trip. And it was the first day on the trip and when we got in, I was just, to be honest, I’m really far away from home. We’ve been here a few days. I’ve had some time to sit in my room and think. I’ve just been getting depressed and I’m thinking about some shit that went down with me this year, or well last year, this time whenever I wrote it, I wrote it right around July. I went through a bad breakup on July 4th last year and that was after a two and a half year long relationship. And we got into the room and we just started talking. I have to know you to be able to write with you so I was like telling them my story and vice versa. In the room, we just all realized that we’ve been through a lot of the same shit. Whether it was in someone’s current marriage or in my past relationship, everybody is going through the same shit, really. And it’s hard co-existing with another person which was my issue with my relationship and you know, you don’t agree on everything. But definitely, my past relationship was the reason I wrote this song and this is a very straight to the point, like this is about X-Y and Z and that’s it.
- 1.Ghost
- 3.Liar
- 4.Lonely
- 5.Young & Sad
- 6.July
- 7.Wonder Years