Scroll Hole

This track was born from a real headline: The documented link between social media use and rising anxiety among teens and young adults — the Surgeon General's 2023 advisory on social media and youth mental health, and ongoing 2026 research showing correlation between screen time and anxiety disorders. Muckraker's r&b production gives the story the weight of a front-page exclusive — journalism you can feel in your chest. Lines like "I'm tired of performing for a crowd I'll never see," anchor the track in specifics that generic coverage misses. The mood — anxious, vulnerable, intimate — 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] Three AM the ceiling fan is spinning like my mind, Thumb keeps moving downward but there's nothing left to find, Just another perfect body, just another perfect life, Just another girl who's got it figured out at twenty-five, I used to know my own face before the filters came, Used to hear my own voice before the comments changed my name, Now I'm measuring my morning by the numbers on the screen, How many strangers liked the version of me that they've seen, Surgeon General said the phones are rewiring our brains, Twenty-three percent increase in anxiety and pain, But I can't put it down, it's like a pulse inside my palm, The thing that makes me panic is the thing I use to calm, Every notification is a little hit of light, Every silent hour is a freefall through the night, And I know it's not real, I know the pictures are arranged, But knowing doesn't stop the way it makes me feel estranged. [chorus] Let me breathe, let me breathe, I'm drowning in a world that isn't even real to me, Let me breathe, let me breathe, I'm tired of performing for a crowd I'll never see, Let me breathe, let me breathe, There's a version of myself I'm trying to set free, Let me breathe, let me breathe, Just let me breathe. [verse 2] Forty-two percent of high school girls reported feeling sad, Not the kind of sadness when a movie makes you bad, The kind that sits inside your ribs and won't get out of bed, The kind that scrolls for comfort but finds comparison instead, My little sister's thirteen and she's counting calories, Got a thousand followers but nobody she sees, Her phone lights up at midnight with a comment on her face, And she's learning that her value is a number and a place, I deleted the app on Tuesday, reinstalled it Thursday night, Because the silence was so heavy and the loneliness would bite, We built a world of windows where everyone can see, But nobody looks inward and nobody looks at me, The algorithm feeds you what it knows will make you stay, So it gives you what you're missing twenty hours a day, And the gap between who I am and who they think I should be, Is the width of a phone screen and the depth of an entire sea. [chorus] Let me breathe, let me breathe, I'm drowning in a world that isn't even real to me, Let me breathe, let me breathe, I'm tired of performing for a crowd I'll never see, Let me breathe, let me breathe, There's a version of myself I'm trying to set free, Let me breathe, let me breathe, Just let me breathe. [bridge] What if I turned it off and no one noticed I was gone, What if the world kept spinning and the feed just carried on, What if the thing I'm chasing doesn't actually exist, And the life I'm supposed to want is something I should resist, Maybe the bravest thing I'll do today is close my eyes, And remember what it felt like before I memorized the lies, There's a heartbeat underneath the noise if I get still enough to hear, And it's saying you were whole before the phone, my dear. [chorus] Let me breathe, let me breathe, I'm drowning in a world that isn't even real to me, Let me breathe, let me breathe, I'm tired of performing for a crowd I'll never see, Let me breathe, let me breathe, There's a version of myself I'm trying to set free, Let me breathe, let me breathe, Just let me breathe. [outro] Let me breathe, let me breathe, Let me breathe, let me breathe, Just let me breathe, Just let me breathe.