Or the lyrics just don't feel heavy enough, there's a lot of breath and air.
sometimes i find it easier to quickly compensate for an unclear instrumental mix by simply bringing the vocals louder. but that's not entirely fair because that makes the groove weaker. so with this one i may have kept the insts stronger. also i think i was still aware that the highs were still not strong enough so i likely boosted the highs. also, too much mids are also always a problem so i almost always tuck the heck out of that otherwise it is just extremely volatile all the time unless i spend years micro managing it. which i assume no one has time to do.