Mike Posner album lyrics: "The Beginning" (2025)

"February 9, 2025"

Yes, yes, yes!

You're about to listen to the beginning

This album is 44 minutes long and it's best listened to the first time through, all the way through with no distractions

That means no e-mail, no text, no social media

So if you don't have 44 minutes of time right now, I politely ask you, "Come back later and turn this off."

I love you

I wrote this album when I was trying to alchemize the grief and pain in my life into beauty

It's been a long time since we spoke. A lot has happened since my father died and I walked across America trying to figure out what was wrong, but I speak to you today in a different place, a place of joy and faith, and love

This album was my attempt to remind you that there are rainbows in your life, while admitting the sun does not alway shine

If you are listening to this I also wanna invite you to join the inner bloom community. It's free of charge and every week we alchemize pain into beauty

Go to mikeposner.com and I'd love to see you there. Until then, keep going and remember: it's a beautiful day to be alive

"Beautiful Day"

It's a beautiful day to be alive

February in New York, such a vibe

I have a hundred different moods from one day to the next

And I've seen a lot of shit, but still I know I'm blessed

'Cause life is not a checklist

I'm sorry to my exes

Keep checking all my messages

I'm done being a pessimist

The old way wasn't working

I gotta put that work in

I know I'm far from perfect

But it's time for a change

It's a beautiful day to be alive

It's a beautiful day to be alive

So if you've got love, then give it away

Here's to the joy and the pain

It's a beautiful day to be alive

There's a part of me

Underneath the part that I let people see

That part is the good part

Oh my God, it's true

I look at the sky and it's electric blue

How was I so selfish?

The money never helped it

Keep checking all my messages

I'm done being a pessimist

The old way wasn't working

So I gotta put that work in

I know I'm far from perfect

But it's time for a change

It's a beautiful day to be alive

It's a beautiful day to be alive

So if you've got love, then give it away

Here's to the joy and the pain

It's a beautiful day to be alive

So if you've got love, then give it away

Here's to the joy and the pain

It's a beautiful day to be alive

It's a beautiful day to be alive

"Is It Just Me?"

Every time I'm next to you

I see pink and royal blue

Every time I got you close

I feel like I took a dose

I never felt this way before

Like I known you from way before

You're the one that I've been waiting for

I'm with you till I'm 84

And then some

My head spun

You light me up like 10 suns

I'd give your ass like 10 suns baby

Is it just me?

I feel like I'm tripping out

Everything is different now

This is crazy

Or is it just me?

'Cause I can feel it kicking in

Take you back to Michigan

Meet the family

Or is it just me?

I'm not crazy

I'm just out of my mind

Is it just me?

I'm not crazy

I'm just out of my mind

When I got you in my arms

Galaxies and shooting stars

Every time I touch your lips

I feel like I'm on a trip

Yeah

I swear you're like my medicine

You got me out my head again

I feel you in my skeleton

Let me meet all your relatives

You shine, girl

You're glistening

You sweet, girl

You're cinnamon

Unique, girl

You're different, baby

Is it just me?

I feel like I'm tripping out

Everything is different now

This is crazy

Or is it just me?

'Cause I can feel it kicking in

Take you back to Michigan

Meet the family

Or is it just me?

I'm not crazy

I'm just out of my mind

Is it just me?

I'm not crazy

I'm just out of my mind

Life was so difficult

I was so cynical

You are my anecdote

Life was so difficult

I was so cynical

You are my anecdote

Is it just me?

I feel like I'm tripping out

Everything is different now

This is crazy

Or is it just me?

'Cause I can feel it kicking in

Take you back to Michigan

Meet the family

Is it just me?

I'm not crazy

I'm just out of my mind

Is it just me?

I'm not crazy

I'm just out of my mind

"Swipe Right Girls"

Now you're all in my city, pretending you're busy

Trying to make me feel envy

'Cause your calendar's full, and your Raya is full

But we both know your heart's still empty

And all it is is confirmation

I'm already so past you

I hope you have a really nice vacation

'Cause you got nothing to come back to

Swipe-right girls are the death of me

They're the recipe for a big disaster

Swipe-right girls always show me love

Blow my ego up

Then the pain comes after

I thought that you loved me

Turns out that it was nothing

Swipe-right girls are the death of me

They want attention

But this song's not about you

This song's not about you

This song's not about you

This song's not about you

This song's not about you

Texts keep coming in, people seeing you out

You're with men that you don't even know

You're on a trip to Tulum, you're in Ibiza for June

And I'm at home just watching the show

And now you wanna have a conversation

But I'm already so past you

I hope you have a really nice vacation

'Cause you got nothing to come back to

Swipe-right girls are the death of me

They're the recipe for a big disaster

Swipe-right girls always show me love

Blow my ego up

Then the pain comes after

I thought that you loved me

Turns out that it was nothing

Swipe-right girls are the death of me

They want attention

But this song's not about you

This song's not about you

This song's not about you

This song's not about you, you, you

This song's not about you, you, you

It's over now

"I'm Not Dead Yet"

Told me

It was over

Hoodie on my head, cold breath in the air

People walkin' by like I'm not even there

Last three nights felt like a hundred years (Ooh, ooh)

I get paid for my pain long as I can make it rhyme

But sometimes I can't tell if it's even mine

Either way it's beautiful, look at how it shines

It sounds like

Ooh, it's all in my head (My head)

Lightning and thunderin'

Ooh, I'm not dead yet

In case you were wonderin'

This is what a sad song sounds like

It's been playin' in my head for my whole life

It's beautiful and cruel at the same time

Ooh, ooh, yeah

And this is what a broken heart beats like

It's tearin' up my chest like a jackknife

But it gets me through the good and the bad times (Ooh)

This is what a sad song sounds like

Told me

It was over

Told me

It was over

This is what a sad song sounds like

Say it like you love me, say it like you care (Care)

I know that I'm fucked up, I don't even care (Care)

When I close my eyes, I swear I can disappear

It sounds like

Ooh, it's all in my head (My head)

Lightning and thunderin'

Ooh, I'm not dead yet (Dead yet)

In case you were wonderin'

This is what a sad song sounds like

It's been playin' in my head for my whole life (Whole life)

It's beautiful and cruel at the same time (Yeah)

Ooh, ooh, yeah

And this is what a broken heart beats like (Beats like)

It's tearin' up my chest like a jackknife

But it gets me through the good and the bad times (Bad times)

This is what a sad song sounds like

Told me

It was over

Told me

This is what a sad song sounds like

Told me

It was over

Told me

It was over

This is what a sad song sounds like

"Underneath It All"

If I have a son

I will name him "King"

Teach him how to fight

Teach him how to sing

And that a good woman

Will show you who you are

Not with her words

But with her heart

But underneath it all

I love you

Underneath it all

I love you

It's okay to smile

It's okay to cry

Know your daddy's songs

They will never die

And don't you feel guilty

For what you've won

There is good and evil in

Each and everyone

But underneath it all

I love you

Underneath it all

I love you

But underneath it all

I love you

Underneath it all

I love you

But underneath it all

I love you

Underneath it all

I love you

But underneath it all

I love you

Underneath it all

I love you

Go

The exciting thing is it's only the beginning

Go

The beginning, the beginning, the beginning, the beginning, the beginning

Go

The exciting thing is it's only the beginning

The exciting thing is it's only the beginning

Go

I wish you could see yourself right now

Struggling and thriving at the same time

Go

You beautiful thing, go shine

Go

Being who you are

Go

Will bring great peace to many others

Go

Go

"Back Around"

You give love and I pull back

Feels like I'm under attack

It's just too much, so I detach

And you'll be gone when I come back around

There's a whole lot of sadness in my smile

Dragging around my attachment style

Friends give me advice, added to the pile

Of things that I'll do when I'm done being wild

My drama makes me act like my mama

Now I'm creating more drama

I spin the whole thing 'round and 'round, and 'round, and 'round, and 'round

You give love and I pull back

Feels like I'm under attack

It's just too much, so I detach

And you'll be gone when I come back around

You try, but I don't care

Brush you off, and that's not fair

Then I move back to my hometown

And you'll be gone when I come back around

Back around

You'll be gone when I come back around

Circling around my trigger points

And acting as if I have a choice

Maybe I never should have left Detroit

I could call you now, but what's the point?

It's tragic, how I'm so stuck in my habits

I walk around in this package

Like it's okay, but it's not, it's not, it's definitely not, woo!

You give love and I pull back

Feels like I'm under attack

It's just too much, so I detach

And you'll be gone when I come back around

You try, but I don't care

Brush you off, and that's not fair

Then I move back to my hometown

And you'll be gone when I come back around

Back around

You'll be gone when I come back around

"High Forever"

I meditate, do my breathwork, and microdose

I got this talent for making everybody close, feel like they're not close

Genetic dispositions tryna pull me into bad habits

I turned my suffering into money, and that's a black magic

You know, life is relentless, it's got ladders and shoots

Look at my long, long branches, my short, little roots

I was listening to the album before the last album

The one everybody knows

It was full of songs like this

I guess I haven't really grown

You can't stay high forever

You can't stay high forever

When you hold too tight onto your own life, it'll eat you up alive

You can't stay high forever

I was reading Camus yesterday at my Michigan place

My father's features are all over my face

And when I go through my personal history

I see victory mixed with liberty, mixed with misery, mixed with mystery, mixed with what my parents did to me (Woo)

Maybe there's more trauma to unpack

You don't see me the way I see myself

And that's what hurts so bad

Tomorrow is a concept

Nostalgia is a dead-end road

I'm haunted by the ghost of my 20s

He's with me wherever I go

You can't stay high forever

You can't stay high forever

When you hold too tight onto your own life, it'll eat you up alive

You can't stay high forever

"You're Not The One"

You're not the one, but you sure showed me something new

You're the prototype of perfect, and your aura's royal blue

My mouth is getting dry, my little Jewish heart is poundin'

Must have left my twenties somewhere back up on the mountain

There was something stuck inside the wheel

All this white guilt and these white women are nipping at my heels

The heat that emanates from you is like a thousand suns

I love it, and I need it, but you are not the one, you're not the one

You're not the one

You're not the one, but you're a goddess, that's for sure

And the universe is flowing in and through your human form

We're parading in the sunset, we're crying out like wolves

We're stretching in formation every time the spirits pulls

Oh, you could change the weather whenever you flick your tongue

I worship you, goddess, but you are not the one, you're not the one

You're not the one

I got a strange feeling like you can see me

Sacred geometry and Kundalini

The words only go so far, the deep layers

You're like a Grateful Dead song pre-Mayer

The god in me plus the goddess in you

I've got attachment issues, yeah, that's probably true

But let's meditate the way two llamas would do

Let's shoot across the sky like two comets would shoot, woo

You're not the one

You're not the one

You're not the one

"Kaleidoscope Emotions"

My story is an old one

Older than the ocean

Older than the night sky

I am

Someone that you knew well

Something that your heart felt

The little voice inside you

That guides you to the end

And why does it feel

Like nothing is real?

When I look in your eyes

I feel so alive

And I can finally see

There's no one to be

I don't wanna go

I don't wanna leave

I wasn't in the right place

You caught me in a weird phase

Got stuck inside the future

Of my head

I don't know where I'm going

At times, it's like I'm floating

It's kind of like I'm meant to be

Where I am

Oh, and I can hear you calling

Calling

Calling

Come home

I can hear you calling

Calling

Calling

Come home

And why does it feel

Like nothing is real?

When I look in your eyes

I feel so alive

And I finally see

There's nothing to be

Nowhere to go

I don't wanna leave my

Kaleidoscope of emotions

Kaleidoscope of emotions

Kaleidoscope of emotions

Oh, oh, oh

Kaleidoscope of emotions

Kaleidoscope of emotions

Kaleidoscope of emotions

Kaleidoscope of emotions

"The Veil Of Maya"

I see God when I look at you

Pink and green and a thousand blues

Oh yeah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah

Spirit wrapped in the human form

I believe we were meant for more

Oh yeah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah

And the spirit

In the blue light

In the white light

In the halo

In the moonlight

In the sunlight

And it feels like

A volcano

It's drippin' off my cheeks and I love it

I can see who I'm now becomin'

I spent three decades runnin'

Tryin' to shine, now I just chill and let the sun in

The Holy Spirit in the human form

You're just hidin' underneath the uniform

I fell pretty far but made it through the storm

Now I got fame and peace

I'm a unicorn

I could feel my dad watchin' me

My life story is like prophecy

I just fear mediocrity

So much light inside

Gotta get it out of me

And the journey's been intense

Sit back and light some incense

We don't know where we're goin'

But I do know my past led me to this moment and

I see God when I look at you

Pink and green and a thousand blues

Oh yeah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah

Spirit wrapped in the human form

I believe that we met before

Oh yeah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah

And the spirit

In the blue light

In the white light

In the halo

In the moonlight

In the sunlight

And it feels like

A volcano

The exciting thing is it's only the beginning

Second inning

The underpinnings of sadness have alchemized and crystallized in the service

I still feel that horrible, existential, deep, fucking pain, deep sadness

I just don't try to numb it anymore

I don't try to cover it up with drugs or food or sex or fame anymore

I sit right there in the fuckin' thick of it

And it's the courage to feel this

This sadness

It's that courage that makes me who I am

It's what allowed me to write this

It's what makes me a deeper, more real man

It's what allows me to connect with you right now

And all I really want to say to you is I love you

And by you, I don't mean some person from my past or my future, I mean you

You

I know we haven't met

But in some ways, we know each other very, very well

Because you know that horrible, existential, deep pain just as well as I do

And I just want to remind you what I need to remind myself

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

You have fallen so many goddamned times

But get up

Get up

Sometimes the thing that hurts the most is just how much love you have inside you

You feel like you don't always have a place to put it

You don't know what to do with it

You think the people around you won't appreciate it

So you pretend like you don't have the love and it gets stuck inside you

And love is like water

When it doesn't flow, it gets rancid and turns to poison

It turns to poison

It turns to anger, resentment and hate

And if you're really honest with yourself, your hate is really just love that you didn't express

You got scared

You got scared that if you actually gave all the love you had, that you might run out

You got scared that maybe your love wouldn't be received and it would go to waste

So you throttled down the amount of love you were giving

To match the amount of love you thought you were getting

But come home, silly

You could never run out

And your purpose is not to get love

Your purpose is to give love

I wish you could see yourself right now

Struggling and thriving at the same time

You beautiful thing

I wish you could see how beautiful you are

Go shine

Being who you are

Will bring great peace

To many others

Go

Go

"Time To Make A Change"

(feat. MonoNeon)

Play connect the dots

With all my darkest thoughts

And how are they to blame

For this season of pain?

And I'm grateful for what we had

Even though some of it was bad

Had to get that of my chest

Alright, but I still wish you the best

So hold me close for the last time

This is for the past times

This is for the last time

Yeah, hold me close for the last time

This is for the past times

This is for the last time

It's time to make a change

Time to make a change

It's time to make a change

It's time to make a change

There's tears in both my eyes

Oh, I apologize

For this teenage rage that got out of its cage

It's time to make a change

I'm trying to make a change

So pull me close for the last time

This is for the past times

This is for the last time

Yeah, hold me close for the last time

This is for the past times

This is for the last time

It's time to make a change

Time to make a change

It's time to make a change

It's time to make a change

Sometimes life can feel like torture

Like you're on a roller-coaster

But you gotta keep moving forward

Don't look back, don't look back

And when times start getting harder

You know God wants you to get stronger

Don't cry for a moment longer

Don't look back, don't look back

It's time to make a change

Time to make a change

It's time to make a change

It's time to make a change

So pull me close for the last time

This is for the past times

This is for the last time

Yeah, hold me close for the last time

This is for the past times

This is for the last time

This is for the last time

"Beautiful Day (Acoustic)"

It's a beautiful day to be alive

February in LA, such a vibe

I've got a hundred different moods from one day to the next

And I seen a lot of shit, but, still, I know I'm blessed

'Cause life is not a checklist

I'm sorry to my exes

Keep checkin' all my messages

I'm done bein' a pessimist

The old way wasn't workin'

I know I'm far from perfect

I gotta put that work in

It's time for a change

It's a beautiful day to be alive

It's a beautiful day to be alive

So if you've got love, then give it away

Here's to the joy and the pain

It's a beautiful day to be alive

There's a part of me underneath the part that I let people see

That part is the good part

Oh, my God, it's true

I look at the sky and it's electric blue, woo

How was I so selfish?

The money never helped it

Keep checkin' all my messages

I'm done bein' a pessimist

The old way wasn't workin'

I know I'm far from perfect

I gotta put that work in

It's time for a change

It's a beautiful day to be alive

It's a beautiful day to be alive

So if you've got love, then give it away

Here's to the joy and the pain

It's a beautiful day to be alive

Aye, woo

Aye, woo

So if you've got love, then give it away

Here's to the joy and the pain

It's a beautiful day to be alive

It's a beautiful day to be alive