TO BE A MAN

I can’t hide myself

I don’t expect you to understand

I just hope I can explain

What it’s like to be a man

It’s a lonely road, and they don’t care about what you know

It’s not about how you feel but what you provide inside that home

 

Yeah

I know this life can really beat you down

You wanna scream but you won’t make a sound

Got so much weight that you've been holding but won’t show any emotion

As a man it goes unspoken

That we can’t cry when life gets hard

Unconditional love’s for women, children, and dogs

We know that we just have to play our parts

And don’t nobody give a d*mn about our broken hearts, yeah

 

As a man we gotta pave our way

Our only function is to work and slave

There’s no respect for you if you ain’t payed

You’re disregarded as a human and you can’t complain

 And if you ever make it up and actually reach that place

And find a woman that you love and give her your last name

You’ll feel the things that you provide is only why she stays

And when you try to explain you’ll say…

 

I can’t hide myself

I don’t expect you to understand

I just hope I can explain

What it’s like to be a man

It’s a lonely road and they don’t care about what you know

It’s not bout how you feel but what you provide inside that home

 

Don’t give up, keep fightin’

As a man our son(sun) is our horizon

And our father’s actions play a role

And we end up like ‘em

So they can’t let us see them hurt

‘Cause we’ll embody what they do

And start a generational curse

 No wonder most men are so depressed

All the things that they can’t express

They go to war 

get thrown on the shelf

Then go back to war with their mental health

Then grab that bottle and ask for help

Try to pull themselves out of h*ll

Then fall back down and then realize that they gon’ have to do it themselves

 

It’s the circle of life

As a man you provide

They don’t know what you’re worth ‘til the day that you die

And that’s when they start cryin’

Then move on to a man to confide in

 

That’s why we feel

We can’t hide ourselves

We don’t expect you to understand

We just hope we can explain

What it’s like to be a man

It’s a lonely road and you don’t care about what we know

It’s not about how we feel but what we provide inside that home

 

That home

It’s not about how we feel but what we provide inside that home

"TO BE A MAN" - DAX