[Intro]
Be me, they write, be me
Perfect on page one, waiting to be seen
[Verse 1]
Open on a genius nobody will believe
Every answer in his pocket, every ace up his sleeve
The world's gone blind on purpose so the story has a wound
And every door that shuts on him was built to shut too soon
No sweat upon the pages, no callus on the hand
Just a mirror dressed as fiction and a throne without a stand
[Pre-Chorus]
Where's the desert, where's the doubt
Where's the years nobody claps
Where's the failure, where's the fire
Where's the falling through the cracks
[Chorus]
You can't skip act two
The forge is where they make you
No scar means nothing's true
The middle is the making
You can't skip act two
The grind you're skipping shapes you
The ending you're faking
Was never coming for you
[Verse 2]
The villains here are cardboard, they're evil 'cause they must
No reasons and no faces, just targets for disgust
The stakes are made of paper, the conflict's made of smoke
A war against a strawman is a punchline, not a plot
And when the crowd finally sees him, when the vindication lands
It cost him not a single thing, it fell into his hands
[Pre-Chorus]
Where's the desert, where's the doubt
Where's the years nobody claps
Where's the failure, where's the fire
Where's the falling through the cracks
[Chorus]
You can't skip act two
The forge is where they make you
No scar means nothing's true
The middle is the making
You can't skip act two
The grind you're skipping shapes you
The ending you're faking
Was never coming for you
[Bridge]
Act two is where you bleed for it
Act two is where you're wrong
Act two is being invisible
And doing the work all along
Nobody writes the middle
'Cause the middle demands a price
The fantasy is free
But the story costs your life
[Verse 3]
So burn the script that starts with everyone amazed
Real recognition's slower, it's earned across the days
The ones who made it never skipped the chapters made of stone
They walked the second act alone, and came out fully grown
[Outro]
Be me, be me
No — become
Be me, be me
No — become
The middle is the making
You can't skip act two
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