[VERSE 1] Don’t stare too hard, you might think you know me, This calm face? Man, that’s just a trophy. I talk real clean, make it sound alright, That don’t mean that’s how I live my life. It’s tension in me, it sit in my chest, Dark stay tucked where my calm look best. It wait on a trigger, it wait on a day, Ready to rise if I slip that way. [VERSE 2] I ain’t that saint you thought I was, I don’t turn cheeks, I do what I must. I pull good outta bad sometimes, But my heart got shaped in a harder climate. I walked through fire, yeah, I got scars, Learned real quick how cold folks are. Sometimes the road to a better place Run straight through hell just to find your way. [VERSE 3] I’m not a nice man, let’s clear that quick, My past still breathe every time I blink. Night-time choices still talk to me, Still see that road when I try to sleep. I bent them rules, I crossed them lines, Tryna kill that noise in a head like mine. All that chaos I keep inside Came from pressure I learned to hide. [PRE-HOOK] So hear me now when I say this clear— I’m still alive ‘cause I stayed right here. [HOOK] I breathe, I live, I feel that sun, ‘Cause I didn’t quit ‘til the war got done. Blood on the soul, scars on skin, Still here standin’ after all that it sent. [VERSE 4] This fight feel endless, rest feel fake, Tryna touch peace with a hand that shake. Somewhere in this, I learned how to love, Hold my people like they sent from above. My love built thick like a locked-down gate, Storm gotta beg just to penetrate. For mine I’d walk where the flames live at, Just to make sure they don’t feel that back. [DOUBLE-TIME BREAK – RAP SECTION] Don’t get it twisted, I live with the weight of it, Slip in the cracks where the pressure stay caving in, Smile on my face but my nerves stay fraying thin, Talking in calm while my heartbeat is blazing in. Back of my mind where the static keep rattling, Facts of my life stay stacked in a battle grid, Mask on the mask, I been mastering camouflage, Half of my war don’t even got a catalog. Run it on instinct, survival and stamina, Pain in my chest got a pulse like a battering ram in it, Thoughts stay circling, boxing my latitude, Good and the bad in me beefing for capital. I don’t do halos, I don’t do saviors, I do what I must when the dark get familiar, Built from the fire where the fear get baptized, Tongue full of truth but I talk in a half-lie. Still I’m here, still I move, still I grind through the fog, Still got scars in the places you hiding the flaws, Still got love in the ways that I never could dodge, Still ten toes when the floor wanna fall. [VERSE 5] So look twice ‘fore you judge this heart, All these ghosts still play they part. I ain’t a demon, I ain’t no saint, Just a tired man still feelin’ faint From all these wars, all these scars, From closed-fist nights to open palm prayers. I’ll do what’s needed, I won’t delay, For the ones I love, that’s how I stay. [OUTRO] If the dark too heavy, you free to leave. If you stay, just know what breathe in me. Good man, bad past, still standin’ here— That’s the truth, that’s what you hear.
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