I Got Good At Pretending – Black River Whiskey (Official Music Video)

Most people never let it show. They just get better at hiding it. This song is about the exhaustion of wearing that mask every single day until you finally stop. Not because you healed. Just because you're done pretending you did. This one is for anyone who has been holding it together for way too long. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 STREAM BLACK RIVER WHISKEY Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6PQPSvLP5BO8aFYdaqZPTw Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/black-river-whiskey/1854651675 Website: https://blackriverwhiskey.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 LYRICS I haven't been okay for a long time. But I got real good at pretending. I showed up every day like nothing was wrong, Smiled through the hurt and just carried on. I didn't know how to explain the pain, So I held it all in and smiled through the rain. Nobody saw the weight I carried alone, That's the kind of hurt that follows you home. At night I stop pretending I'm okay, It's just me and missing you at the end of every day. I lay here in the dark and feel the weight, Of a man who lost you at heaven's gate. Wore the mask so long I forgot my face, Carried all the hurt that I couldn't erase. People asked how I was I said I was fine, Just another good lie to get through the time. I smiled through it all and called it fine, But missing you gets harder every single time. At night I stop pretending I'm okay, It's just me and missing you at the end of every day. I lay here in the dark and feel the weight, Of a man who lost you at heaven's gate. I been carrying this for a long time. Not because I'm strong. Because I didn't know how to put it down. I still don't. I stopped pretending when the lights go out, That's when all the missing comes without a doubt. I lay here talking to your empty side, Still the same man with nothing left to hide. I don't need answers I just need you near, I been getting by on pretending you're still here. I haven't been okay for a long time. But I'm done pretending I am. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH US Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackriverwhiskeyofficial/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackriverwhiskeyofficial TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@blackriverwhiskey Website: https://blackriverwhiskey.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Song Credits Written and composed by D.L. Malcolm Music created with the assistance of AI production tools Visuals created with the assistance of AI video and image generation tools 2026 Black River Whiskey — Under exclusive license to Dead River Records 2026 Dead River Records ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #DarkCountry #SouthernSoul #GriefMusic