Raw Roots

All eyes.

Still don’t see me.

Everybody wants a life

they can show somebody else.

I want one I can feel.

Yeah.

Too many faces, too many masks Too many people perform for the

glass Say that you love me?

Show me, don’t act Real recognize real,

I leave it at that I don’t need crowds I don’t need

praise I don’t need people remembering my name

NOT THAT DEEP

NOT THAT DEEP

Whole world watching — I STILL BREATHE NOT THAT DEEP

LET THAT SHIT LEAVE

Changed my mind Now I changed my speed

REAL ONES STAY

FAKE ONES SPEAK I don’t chase shit WHAT’S MINE FINDS ME HEAD

UP CHEST OUT

HEART STILL BEATS NOTHING LASTS—

SO LIVE THAT SHIT FREE.

Everybody posing

Everybody “real” now

Everybody loves you

when the lights come around

But where were you

when there wasn’t a crowd?

That tells me enough

I don’t need it spelled out

I learned peace when I stopped keeping score

Stopped asking life to give me something more

Good days, bad days — both hit the floor Tomorrow ain’t promised,

what am I stressing for?

I got lungs full of air

Blood running warm People I love And another damn morn’

That’s enough.

That’s wealth. Fuck looking perfect I’d rather feel myself.

If it’s real—

I TAKE IT SERIOUS.

If you’re mine—

I DON’T PLAY WITH

IT. But all that fake love?

All that internet shit?

All that proving yourself

to people you don’t even fuck with?

Nah.

Switch that mindset Switch that lane Same damn world Different damn brain

Rain still falls Pain still came But I stopped giving everything power

over my day I’m alive That’s raw No filter

No applause

No fake deep captions No playing a part I’d rather have three

who know my heart Than three hundred people who know my face

Three hundred eyes that forget me next day

Keep that fame

Keep that race I want real conversation real loyalty real mistakes

One life. No rehearsal.

No audience needed.

No perfect version.

You lose.

You learn.

You fall.

You turn it.

Pain comes—

Don’t worship it.

Life gets heavy—

DON’T BECOME IT.

I used to think every little thing mattered.

Every opinion.

Every mistake.

Every person who walked away.

Then I realized—

The world kept moving.

So did I.

NOT THAT DEEP NOT THAT DEEP FUCK THEIR EYES

I GOT ME

NOT THAT DEEP CUT THAT LEASH I GOT ONE LIFE I’M RUNNING

IT FREE

REAL ONES KNOW

REAL ONES SEE DON’T SAY FOREVER JUST SHOW UP FOR ME

NO MORE FEAR NO MORE PLEASE HEART STILL POUNDING TILL IT DON’T—

SO

BREATHE.

Nothing lasts.

That’s the beauty of it.

So if it’s real—

hold it close.

If it’s fake—

let it go. And if you wake up tomorrow?

Go again.

Harder.