A Cry for Help (Interlude) Lyrics

Mhm Exactly

And that kind of goes along the lines of what I was saying earlier

It's like as a man especially a black man

I see so many of us neglecting our emotions

The world tells you

You're supposed to deal with whatever it is quietly

And never show you know never express and never feel those painful emotions

Society never expects a man to cry and when you do it's seen as weak

My father told me something at a very young age that I'll never forget

He said it's not weak for a man to cry real men do

It's not weak to have emotions and to know that you need help

To me it's weak to know that you need help and be too afraid to ask for it because of what the world will think

Now don't get me wrong there's a lot of power in being able to control your emotions

Rather than letting them control you

But the more I live the more I've come to realize you can never fully control your emotions

Without first allowing yourself to fully feel those emotions

You absolutely must experience the pain fully and express it some fashion

I feel like we're just always expected to walk around like we're ok when we're not

Ask for help allow yourself to feel that pain

Don't try to numb it ok don't try to avoid it because experiencing pain in this life is inevitable

It's out of our control

But how you respond is all that you really can control

When you spend your life numbing and avoiding every little ounce of pain you feel you begin to fear pain

The next time a painful situation comes around you get scared

You become afraid because you don't want to get hurt again

Ultimately it hinders you

Feel that pain and express those emotions before ever trying to control them

I'll tell you a story

I remember being at one of the lowest points in my life and in the end God brought me through of course

But this is how I knew it was bad

During this trial while I was experiencing all of this pain

I remember times sitting alone in my car where I wanted to cry

Where I wanted to cry so bad

And I just couldn't because I'd gotten so use to holding everything in

Let it out