Song title: "Say It Plain"
Language: English

[Intro]

[Unaccompanied piano plays the motif slowly, leaving a full measure of silence between phrases.]

[Verse 1]

No polished deck, no careful chart,
No phrase designed to hide the heart,
No "temporary loss of pace"
To make the truth look small and safe.
I was exhausted. That is true.
Some days I barely made it through.
I worked, replied and met the calls,
Then felt no person there at all.

[Chorus]

Say it plain: I was not well.
Say it plain: I learnt to hide.
Say it plain: I did my work,
But kept the cost buried inside.
Say it plain, then let it stand—
No perfect speech, just open hands.

[Verse 2]

I need not share each sleepless night
Or ask my manager to make it right.
No conversation can erase
The months I lost inside that place.
But honesty can mark the line
Where hidden pain no longer signs
Each document and every breath
As evidence of private debt.

[Chorus]

Say it plain: I was not well.
Say it plain: I learnt to hide.
Say it plain: I did my work,
But kept the cost buried inside.
Say it plain, then let it stand—
No perfect speech, just open hands.

[Cello Solo]

[Solo cello answers each piano phrase, then leads the harmony towards open major chords.]

[Bridge]

I cannot choose how words are heard
Or pre-approve another's world.
I only choose if my own voice
Will vanish through another choice.

[Build-up]

No armour made of office terms.
No script revised until it burns.
A steady chair. A level tone.
The truth need not arrive alone.

[Final Chorus]

Say it plain: I was not well.
Say it plain: I kept on working.
Say it plain: I found a sound
That stopped the worst thoughts from returning.
I need a life where work has place,
But never takes the whole of me.

[Outro]

[Distorted guitar enters for three warm sustained notes, then piano completes the cadence.]

I was not well.
I am still here.
Both can be true.
Both can be clear.