Know Yourself (feat. Fergus James)

Know you don't have to play their games Lose yourself just to fit their frames Don't need to throw your hope Down that wishing well If you just know know know yourself When I was just a whippersnapper playing with my action figures By the river dandelion wishing catching crickets They used to say that I was strange and that Max was different My mama said they must be crazy baby that's your ticket With mum and dad all I'd feel was pleasure The memories they left with me became my realist treasure But then my parents split, it wasn't easy or fun But now I gots to man up because it's just me and my mum I was young And even though we lived in housing commission Love decorated every house that we lived in And all that love she'd give me Would only up and lift me But when she passed I wore a mask like no one really gets me So all I had to do was just remember what was real She'd want me to be happy and my heart to seal and heal So now that I'm a daddy I'm a show you what's the deal Make this house a home so that love is all you feel, yo Know you don't have to play their games Lose yourself just to fit their frames Don't need to throw your hope Down that wishing well If you just know know know yourself Growing up I always knew I was different On that yellow bus it's tough to fit in A world ruled by the cool So run little lamb to that school full of wolves I'm dressed in red Just look at my wool mama These bullies are bulls And I am the bullseye I felt so alone And when ya ostracised You want to hide like the ostrich eyes And yeah I cried when I got my first girlfriend And she broke my heart it's like the whole damn world ends But really it doesn't If I could go back I would tell my younger self that everything would be all right Listen these ain't L's be cool J Even Batman didn't know what he become when he was just a young Bruce Wayne So keep paddling Johnny You'll surf that blue wave Know you don't have to play their games Lose yourself just to fit their frames Don't need to throw your hope Down that wishing well If you just know know know yourself No you don't have to run away Lose yourself like your tears in the rain Let your better angels break you out of this hell because your soul's gold Know yourself