Just Their Puppet

[Verse 1] Sittin’ back in the dark, watchin’ how the game moves, Older heads pullin’ strings, tell me what I got to prove, They said “ride for the set” before I could even think, Had my hand on a trigger ‘fore I learned how to swim, Who’s really runnin’ this — is it me, or is it them? Every move that I make, feel like it ain’t really mine, Grew up lookin’ up to shadows, callin’ shadows my guide, Now I’m starin’ at the strings, wonderin’ whose hand’s on the line. [Hook] Am I a puppet, dancing on a string? Or am I my own man, doing my own thing? Somebody’s pulling, somebody’s calling the shots, Am I a puppet… or is this all I got? [Verse 2] They gave me a name before I could pick one myself, Told me where to stand, told me where not to go, Said “this is family” — but family don’t sell you out, Family don’t hand you a burner and walk away from the doubt, Used to think I chose this, now I ain’t so sure, Was it ever my hand, or just theirs movin’ through mine? I look at the young ones comin’ up behind me now, Wonder if they’ll ask the same question somewhere down the line. [Bridge] Cut the strings — can I stand up on my own? Or was I born already tangled, never really grown? [Final Hook] Am I a puppet, dancing on a string? Or am I my own man, doing my own thing? Somebody’s pulling, somebody’s calling the shots, Am I a puppet… or is this all I got?