What do you think I'm always drunk? And always so turned up? Expectations of me lay so skin deep As if I can take anything But who's here to protect me? Looking like the sun is going down Think about the day I feel the pressure coming around Better shut my mouth If I say my feelings, then they'll say that I'm too loud Blend in to the crowd Once they'll see my color then they'll think that I'm too proud and now They'll think I'm super tough and made of silver stuff All while I'm falling apart In the nighttime, I lose it for real (for real) Watching as my cup overfills Losing all my sense of what I feel Yes, I guess, I'm broken steel Maybe I'm just that soft 'Cause you're playing too rough I am delicate with strings that I created For a world that's always taking pieces of who I am Without anything worth trading Looking like the sun is going down Think about the day I feel the pressure coming around Better shut my mouth If I say my feelings, then they'll say that I'm too loud Blend in to the crowd Once they'll see my color then they'll think that I'm too proud and now They'll think I'm super tough and made of silver stuff All while I'm falling apart In the nighttime, I lose it for real Watching as my cup overfills Losing all my sense of what I feel Yes, I guess, I'm broken steel I hold the weight of the world on my hips I must be strong, can't simp I fed the culture off the tit Created a wave, can't catch my drift Hide my strenght Talk my shit, they buy my lips Cry my pain, they mosh to it (I hate y'all) You wanna defund, I wanna defend Not the same can't pretend Mind of Orisha, skin of a heathen I don't walk in rooms where I'm not greeted, yeah Try me's treason, yeah, yeah Smiles deceiving, yeah, yeah Built this table where I'm seated If they can manifest destiny, why can't you? Need a minute to catch your breath, huh, I need two Can no longer do the work that they won't do My race is not my cape Ho, give me space I cry too Broken steel Broken steel

Drunk dial on a Monday evening Dust flying up behind the car TV screaming at you, what are you breathing Smoke moving in between the bars Bones breaking, you can see my femur Fever's rising and I'm getting too hot Fire's burning, I can see you lying Mr. Sarcasm, I can read your thoughts Money's rolling, party starts I think I'm dying dancing What's the reason Exoskeleton, take your pills You can drop it, man You can keep this nonsense I'm an exoskeleton, take these pills I think I'm dying dancing What's my reason I try to sleep But I can't be still Halfway heartbroken Over rolled up dollar bills Fountain bursting In the scared straight daylight My heart is racing I'm about to pop Tango turning's got me in her clutches Just another reason to go over the top Money's rolling, party starts I think I'm dying dancing What's the reason Exoskeleton, take your pills You can drop it, man You can keep your nonsense I'm an exoskeleton, take these pills I think I'm dying dancing What's my reason I try to sleep But I can't be still Halfway heartbroken Over rolled up dollar bills I try to sleep But I can't be still Halfway heartbroken Over rolled up dollar bills I try to sleep But I can't be still Halfway heartbroken Over rolled up dollar bills

You called me out Said you were my friend I can't talk right now Unless it's pretend I'm lost and found Again and again Don't lose me now It's nearly the end Wide awake But I'm sleeping through the days Walk away Slowly fading as I say Hey Don't be so cruel You try to be the ruler of the cruelest Kind of cool Don't be a fool Judge my every move Till I'm black and blue I'm raising love So don't be raising hell You play your games Time will tell I built this house Watch me tear it down You know those floors Like I know the ground Wide awake But I'm sleeping through the days Walk away Slowly fading as I say Hey Don't be so cruel You try to be the ruler of the cruelest Kind of cool But don't be a fool Judge my every move Till I'm black and blue Don't be so cruel You try to be the ruler of the cruelest Kind of cool

He walks in, orders up a round How you been, my old friend? The band kicks off, the same ole dance The same ole worn out songs but he sings along He's gonna stay here 'til they make him leave 'Cause he's got all the friends a guy like him could ever need One will hang around and tell him what he wants to hear One will help by drownin' out the how'd you wind up heres One will hold him up, when love has let him down They do the best they can for a broken-hearted fool The Beer, the Band and the Barstool Corner booth, a blonde with lonely eyes A shade of blue, "Hey, how are you?" Just by chance, are you here alone? How about a dance? And she took his hand He hoped she'd stay, but always knew she'd leave But he's got all the friends a guy like him could ever need One will hang around and tell him what he wants to hear One will help by drownin' out the how'd you wind up heres One will hold him up, when love has let him down They do the best they can for a broken-hearted fool The Beer, the Band and the Barstool Now he last call, lights a cigarette and orders up one more Pays his tab, knows he'll be back, 'cause he's been here before One will hang around and tell him what he wants to hear One will help by drownin' out the how'd you wind up heres One will hold him up, when love has let him down They do the best they can for a broken-hearted fool They go hand-in-hand with losin' you The Beer, the Band and the Barstool And the Barstool