Have you ever been slapped, called out your name
Something grotesque, now it’s ingrained
Rocking a stain on the side of your face
Never a time or a place to show it, too dark
Bruise marks, who taught you how to be sad
Throw fits and a tantrum, tighten the rope while kissing the phantom
My momma said Jesus the answer, he is the answer
Take it up with him but he ain’t answer so I’m moving on and breaking up with him
Waking up with sin the sky is falling feel it in my legs
The aches and pains took that beating good, took that beating good
I misunderstood, I’m misunderstood this afterlife
And how to mastermind my own mood
Cause half the time I wanna mellow in my own blues
And that’s okay just need to turn the page from old news
Hanging from this gold noose
Rope wrapped round my neck
Dark horse gets no respect, sail the Jet Blue
Nobody protect you

Everybody walks with something
Everybody walks with something

Sometimes it is all too much
Said, sometimes, it is all too much
You don’t know who to trust
And want to shout for help at the top of your lungs
Except you’re feeling that the help won’t come
And it’s a vicious place that your brain done took you
Got your patience pulled apart down in that basement
Windowless and brimming with faces
You were formerly faced with -- a lot of which look like you
See I know it too well…
For me, a lightswitch will dictate heaven from hell
And when it’s off, it’s ever so hard flipping it
Letting my heart discard the dissonance
The scars gon’ be what they are,
And that’s a bitch to come to grips with
But facing ‘em head on will fetch you bigger fish
See I’m with it, I’m with you, I’m right there, too
Never fight the tide, just do what you need to do

Don’t know what we’re going through
Black and blue
Just send me a lifeline
And get well soon

And if I manage to find me a bandage
I’ll manage to manage
Therapeutic heart a beating heart pulsating from the canvas
Pumping wet cement hard body for weight
Time to rock bottom hit hard
Be grateful, don't take it for granted
I know this yet I’d be lying if I wasn’t trying to understand it
Be nice to have dollars but I’m trying to make sense of it