Society puts expectations on expectations

Masculinity got my identity torn into pieces

Who am I, Who am I meant to be?

Scared for acceptance, I continue to play Pictionary

Mentally, I don’t know what I’m meant to see

Rationality, or maybe just a pussy

Who can’t win a single game for my community

But that's what they see, so I just take the flow of their sea

Like Kobe, I play through my injury

Now look at me, joints weak and knees heavy

Pushed by society, 'till I'm physically

As old as sixty, No longer healthy

Now it’s over, all of it gets to me

Now hush, little baby, don't you cry

Just hide everything inside

Stiffen that upper lip up, little baby, I told ya

No one’s here to hold ya through the night

I know that I hurt right now, and I don't know why

I fear how I feel inside

Mind seems a little hazy, going crazy

To be honest, I just wanna feel alright (heh)

Wake up, look in the mirror don’t like what I see

So I stay in the gym, working out, fix my physique

Let muscle dysphoria take over me

So I can be the "epitome" of masculinity

Now consider the fans up in the stands

When they try to recreate this image of a man

And can’t stand their wife at a glance

Raise their hand and leave her struck in a trance

And now abuse is up, was that a part of your plan

Accepted aggression, never-ending expectation

Continued correction, within the cyclic condition

Mental repression, undercover oppression

And now I sit in a hospital diagnosed with chronic depression

I try to escape in sonic speed

But I still feel the gravity up in space

I have no place, to be me, within reality

Unless we change our foundation there's no change that my eyes can see

Now hush, little baby, don't you cry

Just hide everything inside

Stiffen that upper lip up, little baby, I told ya

No one’s here to hold ya through the night

I know that I hurt right now, and I don't know why

I fear how I feel inside

Mind seems a little hazy, going crazy

To be honest, I just wanna feel alright