Self-Tape

Self Tape is Bradley Gamborski's first pop single of 2026, a bare confessional on isolation, burnout, and self-preservation. Set as a self-tape, the song turns solitude into a loop-rewind, wait, survive.

Lyrics are:

Been alone in this room waiting hours for you
Everybody's gone home, babe, what can we do
No escape, just replay all the things we've been through
If there's no way to cope then maybe I'm doomed

And when I wake up in the morning it's not like a choice
I don't choose to hate I choose me it's just noise
When you see me on the screens and say I know that boy
This was my self-tape baby

And when I feel a little older I'll tell you the truth
There was no one around me, it's just me in my room
When it feels a little colder like what did I do
Wasn't my plan to break I just needed me to

And when I wake up in the morning it's not like a choice
I don't choose to hate I choose me it's just noise
When you see me on the screens and say I know that boy
This was my self-tape baby, rewind

I sit and contemplate, I sit in so much in hate
I sit and contemplate, oh
One day you'll understand where I come from
It won't make any sense but you'll see
One day you'll need to know where it comes from
And I'll say talk to these twelve diamond rings and gold chains

Na na na na na na oh
Na na na na na na oh
Na na na na na na oh
Na na na na na na oh

And when I wake up in the morning it's not like a choice
I don't choose to hate I choose me it's just noise
When you see me on the screens and say I know that boy
This was my self-tape baby, uh

Na na na na na na oh
Na na na na na na oh
Na na na na na na oh
Na na na na na na oh