To Be A Man

[00:00.36] I can’t hide myself

[00:03.94] I don’t expect you to understand

[00:07.47] I just hope I can explain

[00:11.03] What it’s like to be a man

[00:14.55] It’s a lonely road and they don’t care about what you know

[00:22.38] It’s not about how you feel but what you provide inside that home

[00:29.26] Yeah

[00:31.16] I know this life can really beat you down

[00:34.96] You wanna scream but you won’t make a sound

[00:38.46] Got so much weight that you been holdin’ but won’t show any emotion

[00:42.48] As a man it goes unspoken

[00:44.25] That we can’t cry when life gets hard

[00:48.27] Unconditional love’s for women, children, and dogs

[00:52.04] We know that we just have to play our parts

[00:54.81] And don’t nobody give a damn about our broken hearts, yeah

[00:59.34] As a man we gotta pave our way

[01:02.62] Our only function is to work and slave

[01:06.41] There’s no respect for you if you ain’t payed

[01:09.42] You’re Disregarded as a human and you can’t complain

[01:13.21] And if you ever make it up and actually reach that place

[01:16.82] And find a woman that you love and give her your last name

[01:20.26] You’ll feel the things that you provide is only why she stays

[01:23.78] And when you try to explain you’ll say…

[01:27.52] I can’t hide myself

[01:31.12] I don’t expect you to understand

[01:34.90] I just hope I can explain

[01:38.41] What it’s like to be a man

[01:41.93] It’s a lonely road and they don’t care about what you know

[01:49.74] It’s not bout how you feel but what you provide inside that home

[01:56.41] Don’t give up, keep fightin’

[01:59.11] As a man our son is our horizon

[02:02.10] And our father’s actions play a role

[02:04.11] And we end up like ‘em

[02:05.61] So they can’t let us see them hurt

[02:07.62] ‘Cause we’ll embody what they do

[02:09.38] And start a generational curse

[02:11.41] No wonder most men are so depressed

[02:13.03] All the things that they can’t express

[02:14.67] They go to war

[02:15.68] get thrown on the shelf

[02:16.68] Then go back to war with their mental health

[02:18.43] Then grab that bottle and ask for help

[02:20.27] Try to pull themselves out of hell

[02:22.18] Then fall back down and then realize that they gon’ have to do it themselves

[02:25.86] It’s the circle of life

[02:27.59] As a man you provide

[02:29.19] They don’t know what you’re worth ‘til the day that you die

[02:32.79] And that’s when they start cryin’

[02:35.47] Then move on to a man to confide in

[02:39.59] That’s why we feel

[02:40.14] We can’t hide ourselves

[02:43.65] We don’t expect you to understand

[02:47.66] We just hope we can explain

[02:50.93] What it’s like to be a man

[02:54.73] It’s a lonely road and you don’t care about what we know

[03:02.29] It’s not about how we feel but what we provide inside that home

[03:13.57] That home

[03:17.33] It’s not about how we feel but what we provide inside that home