gator teeth

I remember hard times when I bleed
Take the tears from my eyes just to see
Fake smiles through the cries alligator teeth
Catch a look from the side capsize beneath
You just ignore it
When you hear me on a track like woah
I put my feelings in a pack it's getting sold
I took the armor off my back and now I'm cold
I'm tired of running from the fact I been chose

Elevator in my head is hitting overload
Upper buttons when my thoughts getting low
Keep arriving at the same damn floor
And all the people that I'm with
can't seem to emphasize the difference
From a prison and a gimmick think the soul that I put in it
Isn't damaged by the transition?
Saying that you listen but you can't listen
Tryna' empathize but the knives missing
Plan to keep it mute but how you balance with the nagging
need transmute the pain into a precious metal?
I'm left with all this gold but that shit heavy metal
And its weighing plenty on my steady levels

I remember hard times when I bleed
Take the tears from my eyes just to see
Fake smiles through the cries alligator teeth
Catch a look from the side capsize beneath
You just ignore it
When you hear me on a track like woah
I put my feelings in a pack it's getting sold
I took the armor off my back and now I'm cold
I'm tired of running from the fact I been chose

Stack it on my back with all the music helpers
People buying tickets to a sinking vessel
Thinking I'm-a take em' on a solo mission
But if they knew the price they'd mull it over
Read it twice and give a reason make it nice and turn away
Like right before they pay the admission
Birdie in my hand but this ain't badminton
And she ain't coming back if I can't handle it
Tryna' be the man but I put all of these conditions on it
Need permission from myself to take some limits off it
Insecurities consuming all my biggest moments
I guess they really own him
But fuck it

I remember hard times when I bleed
Take the tears from my eyes just to see
Fake smiles through the cries alligator teeth
Catch a look from the side capsize beneath
You just ignore it
When you hear me on a track like woah
I put my feelings in a pack it's getting sold
I took the armor off my back and now I'm cold
I'm tired of running from the fact I been chose
...
I see the ceiling, I'm done dreaming who needs those?
I'm barely sleeping we don't speak and you're ice cold
From night fall to night to fall we talk around it
We had an awful collision and you was a nice Rolls
I watch Seven on flights home when my rhymes wrote, damn
You got prose I read your note, and I feel headless
I let you into my restless soul it was so reckless
You got fangs and you disappear when the lights on
My tops dreaded' like how I thought of alone nights
Lying there in bed when perspective shifts to the wrong side
Shame's a real bitch and it takes your throat like a clothes line
And it don't throw fairly its Iron Mike in a street fight
Dealing with the chains of the "what ifs?" or the "what changed?"
Loading up the pistol to cock some sense to my weak brain
Like let me count the ways I've been misled by the street signs
Followed green lights but they led me here, and it's un-paved
It's untraveled and unmarked and unsafe
I'm not steady I'm less sharp and I'm not brave
Shackled in to a locked past and they strong chains
I heard you break em' with self-love and self-grace
I read a book said we're all the same under fake names, and if you
Meditate you can heal faster with less rage
So burn sage go call your mom you can turn the page
This life's short if you're in the dark you got less days
You're good