Say It Loud

This track was born from a real headline: The growing movement to break the stigma around asking for help — from athletes to military veterans to high school students, a cultural shift toward seeing vulnerability as strength, not weakness, accelerating through 2024-2026. Muckraker's rock production gives the story the weight of a front-page exclusive — journalism you can feel in your chest. Lines like "The fireman in Philly finally called the 988," anchor the track in specifics that generic coverage misses. The mood — defiant, anthemic, empowering — reflects the emotional reality behind the numbers. Every Majik's Studio news track exists to make you feel the story, not just read it.

[verse 1] They told us boys don't cry and girls should keep it in, Told us strength is silence, weakness wears it on the skin, So we swallowed all the shrapnel, stuffed it down below the ribs, Built a house out of performance and wondered why it gives, The veteran in the parking lot who can't go in the store, The quarterback who throws up every Sunday morning before, The mother who keeps smiling through the Ambien and wine, The kid who writes I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine, We built a world that glorifies the grind until you break, Then blames you for the breaking like it's something you intake, But the fracture isn't failure and the wound is not the end, The only thing that's broken is the lie that you can't bend, So I'm standing on this stage tonight with every scar I own, And I'm saying what they told me never say out loud at home, I have been to the bottom and I crawled back on my knees, And the first step wasn't standing up — the first step was say please. [chorus] Say it loud, say it loud, I need help and I'm saying it proud, Say it loud, say it loud, Not a whisper, not a maybe, say it loud, Say it loud, say it loud, Every voice in the silence of the crowd, Say it loud, say it loud, Say it loud. [verse 2] Fifty-seven percent of men have never told a soul, About the weight that they've been carrying, the thing that takes its toll, We lose a hundred thirty people every single day, To a war without a battlefield where no one knows the way, But the kid in Kansas City started a club at school, Called it Minds Matter Monday, said the only rule, Is you walk in with whatever you got sitting on your chest, And you leave it on the table, no performance, no contest, Now it's thirty-seven chapters in eleven different states, Teenagers teaching grown-ups that it's never, ever late, The fireman in Philly finally called the 988, Said I haven't slept in two years and I'm standing at the gate, And the voice on the other end said, "Welcome, we've been here, Waiting for the moment that you traded shame for fear, Because fear means you want to live and living means you chose, To open up the door tonight instead of keeping it closed." [chorus] Say it loud, say it loud, I need help and I'm saying it proud, Say it loud, say it loud, Not a whisper, not a maybe, say it loud, Say it loud, say it loud, Every voice in the silence of the crowd, Say it loud, say it loud, Say it loud. [bridge] This is for the ones who typed the text and then deleted it, For the ones who sat in the car outside the office and just quit, For the ones who almost called a hundred times but couldn't speak, For the ones who think that asking means admitting they are weak, You are not weak, you are not broken, you are not too much, You are the thunder and the lightning and the thing the storms can't touch, So open up your mouth and let the heavy hit the air, Because the first time someone hears you is the first time you repair. [chorus] Say it loud, say it loud, I need help and I'm saying it proud, Say it loud, say it loud, Not a whisper, not a maybe, say it loud, Say it loud, say it loud, Every voice in the silence of the crowd, Say it loud, say it loud, Say it loud. [outro] Say it loud, say it loud, Say it loud, say it loud, If you need help — call or text 988, Say it loud, You are not alone, Say it loud.