The stories behind Same Three Words

• Inside "Same Three Words": A Slower, Rawer Second Pass — The second take of "Same Three Words" drops the tempo and leans into an acoustic-electronic hybrid beat before the same chorus arrives.
• Same Three Words: The Survey Answers That Never Change — A nu-metal confessional built from the exact words HTM workers have used to describe their own jobs for nearly a decade.

Lyrics

I took the same three words, said it then say it now I

took the same three words, still standing somehow

Stressful, they called it eight years back

Overworked was the second stack

Understaffed, the third one lands

Same three words in the same two hands

Same three words, but but I'm still here

Say three words, louder than the fear

Say three words,

carried on my back

Still I show up, still I don't look

back

Still I don't look back

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang

Eight years later, nothing's changed

Same tie numbers, same refrain

But I found the ones who feel it too

We say it together, that gets us through

Say three words, but I'm still here

Say three words, louder than the fear

Say three words, carried on my back

Still I show up,

still I don't look back

Bang, bang,

so I don't have to look

Bang, bang,

Maybe the words don't have to win

Maybe I'll say them now and start again

Stressful, overworked, understaffed and true

Doesn't mean I'm finished, means I'm still here too

Same three words, but I'm still here

Same three words, louder than the fear

Same three words carried on my back

Still I show up, still I don't look look

back

Same three words Said it then, said it now

Still standing Still standing somehow