What You Know Lyrics

What you know about flipping paychecks to support your habit

All you know is that you're sick and you got to have it

You ain't even ballin, you're falling apart

And you don't really even know how you done let it grab you

What you know is that before you went to kindergarten

You had learned all about the way that life got started

The birds and the bees, cause you was forced to your knees

You would scream, but you couldn't, you were closely guarded

Now the problem is, it didn't stop there

Just give it a few years and there's another in the lair

With a knife to your throat and a deadly stare

Causing a whole lot of damage, you were trying to repair

With a band-aid the size of a corner bag

Because you couldn't afford to let them see just how bad

All of you was laying wide open on the slab

Desperate to try to quiet the parts of you going mad

(What you know about it)

Going through it all alone, living in a house that'll never be a home

(What you know about it)

Trying so hard not to fall apart, while you're only ever carrying a broken heart

(What you know about it)

Looking in the mirror at an empty space, trying not to carry all the pain on your face

(What you know about it)

Standing even though you're crumbling from the weight, and soaked to the bone from the

rainy days

(What you know about it)

Watchin em close the casket, you would never be the same

Ain't no sense in askin

If you were okay, cause there ain't no way

After you saw the brains scattered in the cab to mask it

The last thing that you ever spoke was hatred

And now you carry with you all the things that make it

The very reason you could never even come close to the person you would be

If you ain't decide to waste it

Now take it all away to another extreme, wondering why you had to live to see these things

Having waking nightmares and shattered dreams

While they locked you up and guinea-pigged you out the seams

Psych med after psych ward and all the while

You just wanted them to see you were a broken child

But they never did, so you had to grow up quick

And make sure you only let them see

you take your lick

(What you know about it)

Going through it all alone, living in a house that'll never be a home

(What you know about it)

Trying so hard not to fall apart, while you're only ever carrying a broken heart

(What you know about it)

Looking in the mirror at an empty space, trying not to carry all the pain on your face

(What you know about it)

Standing even though you're crumbling from the weight, and soaked to the bone from the

rainy days

(What you know about it)