Honest Youth Lyrics

Devil's hand upon the reins

You come up sweating, lost and lame

Mud up to your knees again, bit between your teeth

Buried in the bitter taste

The blood rush of that steeple chase

When you barely recognize your face

Begging just to breathe

You shrug a shoulder

Leaning on your so-so posh friends

Don't know how a good day ends

Crying on the carousel

Flat-buzzed you fake it just as well as i did

Gimme deron jones and the dap kids

Caught tripping and i hid so well

The truth is honest youth can tell

The sunlight falls upon your face

Your perfect skin without a trace

Of sorrow every man must face, i feel it in my bones

So I carved my name into the ground

That when your head is hanging down

And you're trembling with every sound

You'll know you're not alone

You shrug a shoulder

Leaning…don't know…crying…flat buzzed…

Gimme shady lane and lover's spit

…honest youth can tell

You don't have to hide from me

I know what it's like to be

Gaslit goosestep paper-chasing

Nihilista mind erasing

Like you're stuck between what you know and what you see

All your horses turn to carousels

The truth is, the truth is

That the school lunch catches in your throat little brother

The flag pin ain't sticking to your coat little brother

The prayer you swear you prayed ain't coming true

I know I've been lonely too

The years pile up upon your back

Tied up with string and painted black

On a wire without an inch of slack in the money colored rain

But you dream of mountains, yellow sun,

White glacier melt, blue river run

The stars come out and every one is burning just for you

You shrug a shoulder

Leaning on your so-so posh friends

Don't know how a good day ends

Crying on the carousel

Flat buzzed, you fake it just as well as i did

Hate the game but i played it

Caught tripping and i hid so well

The truth is honest youth can tell