To Be A Man (feat. Darius Rucker)

I can't hide myself I don't expect you to understand I just hope I can explain, what it's like to be a man It's a lonely road And they don't care 'bout what you know It's not 'bout how you feel, but what you provide inside that home Real man is what you make it You can't always live up to expectation You try to please everybody while you struggle, so you fake it And end out of balance, comprising situations As a good man huh, do what you should man I'll give everything he has, and do everything he could, men You migt find yourself feeling all alone Inside the house you built that you don't recognise as home And thats what my daddy told me, and I'll tell my son the same Now that I'm older, I relate and I actually feel his pain He never cried, he might have lied but he did not complain And he son, said oneday you'll have to do the same I get emotional when I stop and thinking, I look around Be on the county line of my small town I think about all the men out there who feel like I do now Who are screaming on the inside, but won't never make us proud I can't hide myself I don't expect you to understand I just hope I can explain, what it's like to be a man (what is like to be a man) It's a lonely road (its a lonely road) And they don't care 'bout what you know (care 'bout what you know) It's not 'bout how you feel, but what you provide inside that home Don't give up, keep fighting, as a man our son is our horizon And our father's action play a role and we end up like 'em So they can't let us see them hurt, 'cause we'll embody what they do And start a generational curse No wonder most men are so depressed All the things that they can't express They go to war, get thrown on the shelf Then go back to war with a mental health Then grab that bottle and ask for help Try to pull themselves out of hell, then fall back down and Then realize that they gonna have to do it themselves It's the circle of life, as a man you provide They don't know what you worth Till the day that you die and that's when they start crying (oh) Then move onto a man to confine them That's why we feel we can't hide ourselves (we can't hide ourselves) We don't expect you to understand (oh understand) We just hope we can explain (we can explain) What it's like to be a man (oh, what it's like to be a man) It's a lonely road (It's a lonely road) And you don't care 'bout what we know (care 'bout what we know) It's not 'bout how we feel (how we fell, how we feel) But what's we provide inside that home (inside that home) That home (that home) It's not 'bout how we feel (not about how we feel) But what's we provide inside that home (inside that home)