Wild Vertigo

Intro

Three a.m., the skyline tilts like it's leaning on me

Streetlights blur to ribbons, still I hold the key

Notebook full of static, turning static into steel

Every drop's a warning, but I don't let it feel real

Verse

Elevator stuck between the third and eighth floor

Landlord banging concrete rhythms on my apartment door

Bought a beat machine with tips I saved from washing plates

Every skip at midnight turns to something great

Cousin said the tower's shaking, told him grab the rail

I said watch me climb the stairwell when the elevators fail

Sixteen hours in the studio, coffee turned to rust

Spinning like a compass but the needle points to trust

Mirror cracked in half but I still see the whole

Half a face, full a vision, that's enough to make it roll

Traffic lights are strobing like a chorus for the lost

Counting every footstep like it's something gonna cost

Uncle called it dizzy, said I'm chasing smoke and steam

Told him vertigo's the tax you pay to keep the dream

Ground keeps tilting, floor keeps shifting under my own feet

Still I find the rhythm, still I keep the beat

Chorus

Wild vertigo, world keeps spinning round

Feet don't touch but I don't fall down

Every dizzy step is a step I claim

Wild vertigo, I still know my name

Verse

Six months later, same stairwell, new kind of grind

Same cracked mirror but the crack looks more like a sign

Landlord moved but the pressure never did relent

Turned the eviction notice to a verse about the rent

Studio upgraded, still the coffee tastes like rust

Different cup, same hunger, same unbroken trust

Silence on the block turned into whispers on the phone

Now they play my demo like a heartbeat of my own

Height don't scare me, it's the balance that's the test

Every version of me climbing, never one to rest

Vertigo ain't weakness, it's the proof I'm going high

Only dizzy when you're moving toward the open sky

Uncle called again, said the rumors finally spread

Told him watch the tower rise from everything I said

Skyline learned my name from the echoes off the glass

Every spin's a lesson, every fall becomes the past

Chorus

Wild vertigo, world keeps spinning round

Feet don't touch but I don't fall down

Every dizzy step is a step I claim

Wild vertigo, I still know my name

Bridge

Truth is there were nights the spinning felt too real

Knees against the rooftop, tryna find out what I feel

Almost let the static swallow everything I built

Almost let the vertigo turn dreaming into guilt

But I remembered every floor I had to climb alone

Every crack becomes a compass pointing toward the throne

So I stood back up and let the dizziness refine

Turned the wild vertigo into a permanent design

Outro

Skyline steady now, my footing found the ground

Wild vertigo turned to something that resounds

Every step still spins but I already won

Call it vertigo, call it where I become