Running 'round, keeping all this pain to myself

Yeah, I won't tell nobody else

See, I got some things

But I keep 'em on the low-low

People think they know me, but

They ain't really know though

There's a lot of things I ain't ever really spoken

I'm not open with the fact that I'm broken

I'm floatin', lost like ocean

To be frank, I'm hoping

That I'm living in a nightmare

And I'm soon to be woken

So I keep it surface level

People think I'm special

But they ain't ever seen a mental

State of a young black man with two feet in the grave

I'm tryin' to help my people, so I'm forced to behave

Feeling like a puppet, scratch that

Feeling like a slave, no I'm not brave

I ain't got no option, I do what it takes

So I hide when I'm angry

Hide when I'm sad

I'm afraid to show the bad

I just show all the good things

Good things I just show all

The good things

Good things I just show all

The good things

Good things I just show all

The good things

Yeah

I never felt like I could be human

Being with this purpose is so damn consumin'

So damn confusing, I'm on the edge of losing

Everything, watch it all fall

Watch me crumble, I've never felt so small

I've never felt I ever had the space to recall

Every wave of pain, so I left it at the shore

That was before, I met you when you saw through it all

You helped me pause on this waterfall

You saw the good, but you wanted to see beneath it

You found strength in what I thought was weakness

And you showed me that this nightmare

Doesn't have to be sleepless

Your love woke me

Now I can never pass you up like Kobe

Baby girl, you're my one and only

Yeah, I never wanted to share

What I thought was bad

But with you I've never been so glad to share

More than the good things

Spent my whole life trying to get through all of y'all

But you keep steady playing

Donald Trump building walls

Yeah, I always in for something

If I fall, then I crawl

It don't matter how tall, man, that shit makes you feel small

But that's the shit I don't like

Sick of this shit like game five

You could call me Mike

Jordan, I won't let another black youth feel unimportant

Our nation dropped the ball and it's ain't no fuckin' Spaulding

Kids losing lives, seeing suicide

As a better option than to keep their eyes open

Man, we gotta be joking

We gotta be joking