[Verse 1] You gaze from your villa, (safe inside the gate) Where the wind never blows (and the love feels great) Where the gardeners watch the lawn so green And the housewives complain in the living room scene You live for the ski trip, (the mountain peak) That run on the black slope, (the worst of your week) Or maybe that crisis on day number three A brand new suit that no one was there to see [Pre-Chorus] You live with the view that safety is free That the lost always find where they need to be That everyone leans on their father's hand When the debts pile up like sinking sand [Chorus] If you are happy, then I am glad But don't point your finger at the life I have had The world is a beach house, and drama a feast That you know from the novels you read in the east Stop living in your Castle in the Air You have it all, but you’re barely there Little Princess... Stop living in your Castle in the Air I told you the truth, but you didn't care You don't know the half of the cross I bear [Verse 2] What if you grew up without a big TV? In a welfare house of poverty? With two brothers, one sister, and mom alone Raising the wreckage of two exes on her own What if the oldest memory of your youth Is parents screaming, fighting tooth and tooth What if your father was a child, not a man? And your family failed before it began? [Verse 3] Suppose that the father of your brothers' kin Left nothing but the color of his skin? Promised to visit when the birthday came Left them staring at the window, calling his name Suppose your sister lost her mind Schizophrenic, drugs of every kind Giving birth inside a psychiatric ward To a son she rarely sees, oh Lord [Bridge] Just imagine for a while! No money for travel, no vacation style! Forced into camps every summer day I wasn't in Marbella, soaking rays! If you saw this shit, would you want to live?! At ten years old, with nothing left to give?! At twelve years old, would you start to smoke?! At thirteen, drunk until you choke?! [Verse 4] Be serious now... did you have a choice? When at sixteen your dad snorts away his voice? Right in your face, blowing money away Debts he is paying to this very day [Outro] You find it strange that I live in fear? I have no Plan B, I have no safety gear You get why I drink like a man possessed? I don't have those things with which you are blessed... [Chorus - Reprise] Stop living in your Castle in the Air You have it all, but you miss so much... Little Princess... You miss so much.
