Letter From Rehab

LETTER FROM REHAB

By Yemisi Komolafe

(Emotional Spoken Intro)

2012...

Young boy with dreams inside his eyes

Everybody saw the smile…

Nobody saw the war inside

I came to school innocent

Just wanted love… peace… purpose

But pain has a way of following children

Who grew up in broken homes

This is not just music…

This is evidence

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Verse 1

I was the cool kid, calm soul with ambition

Mama praying every night, hoping for a better living

First time for campus, freedom in the system

Didn’t know demons dey hide inside the rhythm

Saw people rolling smoke but I never judged them

Never knew one day I'd become one of them

Not even peer pressure, na environment

Pain in my chest turned addiction to residence

Started using substance just to sleep at night

Too many voices in my head when I close my eyes

Looking for validation from people outside

Giving my whole heart while my soul slowly died

Fake love, fake friends, fake loyalty

Smiling in my face but they never noticed me

I was bleeding mentally, silently drowning

While everybody thought I was just enjoying

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Hook / Chorus

Ohhh…

I was crying but nobody heard me

Lost inside myself so deeply

Substance couldn’t heal this pain inside

Only made me slowly die

Broken homes raise broken minds

Children suffer from their parents’ fights

Fathers, please don’t leave your homes

Some scars never leave our souls

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Verse 2

Two times arrested, caught inside the web

Fear in my eyes while my spirit felt dead

People I protected switched sides on me

Left me in darkness when I had no peace

Years kept moving, my mates graduated

I stayed behind feeling lost and frustrated

Started hating mirrors, hated my reflection

Depression dressed itself like aggression

Nobody knew my mental health was sinking

Every night alone, overthinking and drinking

2019… I finally lost control

Anger and destruction took over my soul

Face messed up, mind scattered everywhere

Couldn’t recognise the man standing there

Ended up in rehab fighting for my sanity

Trying to reconnect with my humanity

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Bridge

And there were nights…

I almost ended it all

Silent tears on hospital pillows

Asking God if He could still hear me

Wondering if broken people deserve healing too

I carried childhood pain into adulthood

Nobody teaches boys how to survive emotionally

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Final Verse / Outro

Listen…

Fathers should never abandon their homes

A child remembers absence more than words

And mothers…

Never marry the man your heart cannot truly love

Because toxic love becomes inherited pain

Breakups destroy children quietly

Some become addicts

Some become violent

Some become empty humans searching for love in dangerous places

This song is not to glorify addiction

This is survival

This is a warning

This is healing

From 2012 to 2019

I fought battles nobody saw

But I’m still here

Still breathing

Still healing

Still becoming

This is my letter from rehab

— Yemisi Komolafe

slow Afro-soul piano intro,

soft talking drums,

emotional choir hums,

deep bass during the bridge,

and a vulnerable spoken-word delivery in parts of the outro.

For the hook, you can also add layered background vocals repeating:

“Broken homes… broken souls…”

“Can you hear me now…”

to make it haunting and memorable.