Don’t Fold

Yeah…

You ever be surrounded by people…

Still feel like nobody really there?

Yeah…Yeah Yeah

Some say the hood made me cold, made me distant

But I been like this, stuck in my own mental prison

Tryna find peace but my thoughts keep fightin

Smile in the day, but at night I’m hidin

Uh uh uh

Wanna be seen, yeah I want that respect

But I don’t switch up just to get me a check

Stay solid, sometimes I take that risk

Only thing I wish I could change real quick

Yeah yeah

Young but my mind been old from the jump

Got two sides in me and they both turned up

One want calm, one want chaos n noise

So I move too fast, I ain’t livin like them boys

ain’t livin like them boys

Stand up, don’t fold when it get like this

Chest tight, still breathe through the pain n grit

They ain’t ride, they dipped, now it’s just me left

Had to cut ‘em all off, now I talk to myself

No love, no hand when I hit that low

Now it’s f*ck everybody, I don’t need no soul

Heart cold, yeah I built it that way

In the dark too long, now I see my way

Climbed up high where the air get thin

Lowkey scared but I still locked in

Part of me curious, part wanna prove

I can stand in that storm, I got nothin to lose

No no no

Hear my young self callin from way back then

Like “you really made it where you feared back then?”

Now I’m that man, yeah I faced them nights

Still feel lost even after them fights

Wind blow loud but it don’t say much

Top get lonely when you don’t feel touch

Tryna find my place in this big world map

But it feel like everywhere I go, I overlap

Uh uh uh

Stand up, don’t fold when it get like this

Chest tight, still breathe through the pain n grit

They ain’t ride, they dipped, now it’s just me left

Had to cut ‘em all off, now I talk to myself

No love, no hand when I hit that low

Now it’s f*ck everybody, I don’t need no soul

Heart cold, yeah I built it that way

In the dark too long, now I see my way

Pops woke up early, yeah 4 in the morn

Hands all cracked, workin through the storm

Made the house warm, had my shoes look right

I ain’t say thanks, I was blind back then, right?

Now I sit back thinkin damn, that was love

Even if it came rough, it was sent from above

Now I’m grown, feel that weight in my chest

Some love go quiet, but it still the best

Sittin in a crowd but I’m still by myself

Like I got all the bands but can’t buy no help

Like I left my wallet when I rushed out the crib

Got love in my life, just don’t feel what it is

City full of lights but it’s cold inside

Everybody flex but got pain they hide

Saw a lady chillin, yeah she calm, no stress

Like she cool with the silence, I ain’t there yet

Yeah…

Some of us loud but we empty inside

Some of us quiet but we learned how to survive

Still here though…