I'll Be Around

You don't need spend your time on it

You don't need a reason why for it

Can't live your life on a lie, honest

But I promise

If you ever come back down

All that matters is you rise from it

You can never get too high on it

Everybody has those doubts, honest

And I promise

If you ever come back down

I'll be around

Called myself half caste

Didn't know that it meant half made

And though I stopped using the word

The feeling remained

Who are you anyway?

I tried to be free from it

I went to sleep on it

Hibernation on a hyphenation

Deep down full of holes

Ribcage for a scaffold

Cracked straight through to the foundation

Awoken by some foreign cry

An echo round my insides

My other half

Cast

Aside for the rest

Hear here it said

Take heed

And don't forget

Life like art is a working progress

Once you step one

You can never step wrong

That divide's in your mind my son

Your life is one

And your life belongs

No need spend your time on it

You don't need a reason why for it

Can't live your life on a lie, honest

But I promise

If you ever come back down

All that matters is you rise from it

You can never get too high on it

Everybody has those doubts, honest

And I promise

If you ever come back down

I'll be around

I dream of a life

But I don't dare speak it

Don't want a crowd

If I don't complete it

And that's the doubt

It knows how to creep in

Break your faith

So you stop believing

Seething

Cos it's way better than weeping

Boys don't cry

Boys don't have feelings

That's gay

And I prayed

But it just didn't go away

And when I felt like God wasn't hearing me

Or changing me in the way I'd plead

The way I thought I'd need

I put myself through my own conversion scheme

I learned to walk like men

And talk like them

Gesture less with my hands

Like them

I uncrossed my legs

And got a girlfriend

And never ate bananas in public again

By myself

Tryna mind my health

When my mind was stacked like a mile high shelf

Cooped in and looping

Every thought that I'd think

Out on the edge, at the brink

It was love grabbed me

Love that reached

Love that said

In a silent speak

Playing that strong boy

Makes you weak

Love

Why don't you start with me?

And I confess

I can't really give it

No stress

Daily I'm feeling

So bless

I'm just gonna lay it out like this

Fear of death won't keep me living

Fear of hate won't keep me from loving

And Fear of them won't keep me from being me

And I'm not sorry

I'm free

You don't need spend your time on it

You don't need a reason why for it

Can't live your life on a lie, honest

But I promise

If you ever come back down

I'll be around

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If you ever come back down

I'll be around