Voices

Are you serious? Why are you even trying? You'll never make it You know what the odds are? You're not even good Stop now Give up! Ah! The biggest scar is never visual The deepest scar is never physical Always in my mind wanna try to go and hide The light and the signs I'm findin' inside Feelin' divided keepin' me behind the blinds Every time I speak I can see Judgin' eyes start to peak Enemies Look all the same Wanna say they're friends to me But it's all a game that they play Wanna be the end of me I'm sick of the talk And gettin' the calls From people who were never around When I started off They wanna Put me down like a sedative Act so surprised when I did what I said I did You're so simplistic And I'm optimistic And I'll let you speak But then I'll dismiss it You don't wanna speak facts Put me under attack But then I turn it around and all you'll see is stats All I hear are voices, voices All I hear are voices, voices And they're goin' back and forth Tryin' to destroy me All I hear are voices Yeah, yeah yeah All I hear are voices, voices All I hear are voices, voices And they're goin' back and forth Tryin' to destroy me All I hear are voices Yeah, yeah yeah I'm locked inside my mind Welcome to my mental penitentiary now Take a look and tell me what you find Cuz I'm searchin' for a better part of me You wanna think it's all copacetic Like I'm an open letter but it's closed and it's set up On a shelf with all the books that I never read and It's full of words I never learned and I never said But letting it burn was never part of the plan I Stand and watch the flames dance And take the blame answers all the shame I Started feelin' defeated brought to my knees So I feed it the needed to beat it but pleading was eating At all my thoughts and the overall cost was crucial Now I'm lost Please tell me what would you do Let the past be the past But the last thing I had Was a lasting impression of madness All I hear are voices, voices All I hear are voices, voices And they're goin' back and forth Tryin' to destroy me All I hear are voices Yeah, yeah yeah All I hear are voices, voices All I hear are voices, voices And they're goin' back and forth Tryin' to destroy me All I hear are voices Yeah, yeah yeah I been tryin' to figure out where my heads at These headhunters wanna see me come in dead last So I'm huntin' the hunters cuz somethin' they never thought of My grind is a hundred times better than the best When I step up in the building they gon' feel it When they feel it They gon' know that it's real I'm sendin' shivers down their bones and they choke I silence everybody that Ever had the thought of saying no I'm livin' the dream You dreamin' of livin' I'm givin' everything that I got to this every minute You just wanna try to stop it Put my focus on the future You're to caught up in the hope that you can get me You're too slow You need a tutor This is an intervention I guess I forgot to mention The secrets that I locked up in a room you'll never get in Cuz it's too cold and dark An open heart would close up I guess there was no hope from the start All I hear are voices, voices All I hear are voices, voices And they're goin' back and forth Tryin' to destroy me All I hear are voices Yeah, yeah yeah All I hear are voices, voices All I hear are voices, voices And they're goin' back and forth Tryin' to destroy me All I hear are voices Yeah, yeah yeah