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