Between Brave and Afraid by Jay Jeong un Yang

 

I created a song using Suno titled 'Between Brave and Afraid', and the lyrics were inspired by the Shakespearean play Hamlet.

The artwork featured in the videos was created by me using ChatGPT. 

 

This is version 1.

 

 

This is version 2.

 

 

 

 Lyrics:

Verse 1
Got a crown made of questions, heavy on my skull
Every thought like a verdict, every choice like a pull
Run simulations in my head like a courtroom trial
See the ending of the movie before I move an inch or smile

They say live in the moment, say go when it’s hot
But my mind gotta cross-examine every thought
Step in the doorway, foot still in place
’Cause I already saw the tragedy written on my face

Truth got angles, every one of ’em sharp
Every option got a ghost sitting deep in the dark
They call it wisdom, say I’m deep like the sea
Feels more like a cage that I welded to me

Don’t trust tone, don’t trust touch, don’t trust love
Even joy feel like something I gotta push above
Delay on delay, every feeling postponed
Even when I’m with someone, I’m still alone

Pre-Chorus
If I move, I might ruin the frame
If I wait, I’m erased in the same
Keep asking the sky for a sign
But the sky never answers my name

Hook / Chorus
I don’t know if I’m brave or I’m scared
Got my heart in a war with the thoughts in my head
Every move feel like checkmate’s near
So I hesitate, hesitate, standing right here

I see too much, hear too much, feel too deep
Truth cut loud when the world stay asleep
Don’t know if I’m lost or awake
So I hesitate, hesitate, hesitate

Verse 2
They want passion, they want sparks, they want flame
But they don’t hear the debate every time I say my name
Got a judge in my chest, got a jury in my mind
Every answer on delay, every future undefined

Love say jump, fear say run the math
Trust say open, doubt say check the path
I read tension in silence that was never there
Build storms in my chest out of regular air

Maybe I’m a coward, maybe I’m too aware
Maybe both truths sitting heavy in the same damn chair
They glide through life like the floor concrete
I walk like the ground might vanish under my feet

Pre-Chorus
If I talk, I might crack the glass
If I hush, I just slowly pass
Got a thousand voices wearing my face
And I don’t know which one deserves the space

Hook / Chorus
I don’t know if I’m brave or I’m scared
Got my heart in a war with the thoughts in my head
Every move feel like checkmate’s near
So I hesitate, hesitate, frozen in fear

I see too much, hear too much, feel too deep
Truth scream loud when the world stay asleep
Don’t know if I’m lost or awake
So I hesitate, hesitate, hesitate

Bridge (Spoken/Rapped, slower)
Maybe choice is the curse
Maybe thought is the knife
Maybe knowing too much
Is the price of this life
If I fall, let it fall in my name
If I rise, let it rise without shame

Final Hook (Shift to empowerment)
I still don’t know if I’m brave or scared
But I’m done letting thoughts leave my life unshared
Every step still risky, yeah I know
But I move now, move now, I go

Yeah I move now, breathe now, stand in my skin
Still see too much, still feel too much — but I step in
I hesitate less, let the fear translate
Into motion, into rhythm, into my fate

Outro (quiet)
Maybe doubt never leaves me…
But at least now it walks beside me
instead of holding my throat.