[HOOK] You were looking for a problem, so you never saw the man I was standing there the whole time with my heart inside my hand Now you're wondering what happened, tryna figure where I am I'm exactly where I said I'd be, just nowhere in your plans And you can't say I never told you, 'cause I told you from the start The only thing I ever hid from you was how easy I could walk [VERSE] Everything I gave you, I'ma give it to me now Every call, every question, every minute, every hour All the patience that I wasted waiting on you to allow Me a seat in your life, I'ma build my own house See, I finally did the math on what I handed you for free The attention, the remembering, the man I let you see And I asked myself one question sitting up at half past three: Why am I this good to strangers and this cheap when it's me? 'Cause I learned to pour it outward 'fore I learned to pour it in Learned to catch whatever's falling, learned to carry, learned to bend Learned that love means what you give, nobody taught me what to keep So I emptied out my pockets for whoever looked at me And you looked at me, that's it, that's all you ever really did Looked at me like something extra, like a maybe on a list While I'm out here treating one look like it's something to protect Man, I turned a little interest to a job I never left I was working for you daily and you never signed a check I was clocking in with feelings, clocking out with less and less And the payday never came, just another "we'll see" Another dodge, another shrug, another wait-and-let-it-be And I waited, that's on me, I can own my part clean I ignored what I was seeing 'cause I liked what I believed But belief don't fill a room when the other side won't speak And I'm done making excuses for the people going weak You went quiet when it counted, then made noise about my tone Couldn't answer one straight question, but got speeches for your phone Had a paragraph for others 'bout the pace and going slow Had a whole two words for me, and I'm the one that's in it though So that's it, I'm pulling everything I planted out your yard Every seed of my attention, every soft word, every guard I done stood outside your fence long enough to know it's barred And a man who keeps on knocking's just a man ignoring God 'Cause the signs was everywhere, I just ain't want to read You forget the ones you're keeping? Nah, you keep the ones you need And you didn't, so I don't, that's as even as it gets You can think about me later with the rest of your regrets Now the mirror gets the effort that I used to mail away Now the gym gets my mornings and the grind gets my day Now the money gets the focus that I put up in your name Now the man I'm finna build gon' make this version look ashamed I'ma pour into my craft 'til the craft pours back I'ma sharpen what I'm good at 'til there's nothing that I lack Every hour that you dodged me is an hour I attack I'ma be so far ahead it'll look like you the past And one day you gon' see me and I'll look brand new Same heart, same honest, just a man that's coming through For himself first, finally, and it's all because of you You taught me where it don't belong, so I took it back. We're through. [HOOK] You were looking for a problem, so you never saw the man I was standing there the whole time with my heart inside my hand Now you're wondering what happened, tryna figure where I am I'm exactly where I said I'd be, just nowhere in your plans And you can't say I never told you, 'cause I told you from the start The only thing I ever hid from you was how easy I could walk
