Child's Play ft. Karl Francis Lyrics

When I was a kid, thought life was child's play

Mind's safe, living in my own world of high stakes

Times change, now I'm scratching thoughts on to this white page

Sheets of emptiness, all on the floor, it's like my mind state

Blank (yeah), I've been cooking bars that are so dark, wait

Burnt to crisp, like toast out the oven, perfect, my taste

Is mind-provokingly a questionable sense of tirades

These hoops and hurdles that I jump through, it's like a mime cage

Can't see the walls, I'm stuck inside a room filled with my expectations

Affirmations? Never heard of that, foreign text, explanation

I been looking in the fucking mirror, seeing disappointment

Written on my face like it's a banner, got no inclination

Wake up in the morning, head is heavy but my body's light

My mind tells me stay on the ground, can't feel my legs, just float and rise

To climb these ladders, step by step, they say that one rung at a time

But I'm too busy crawling along these walls like parkour, spider, wait

Oh, look, I've been on a rant when I talk to myself, the room I command

The proof's in the pudding, deserted and trapped

Unearthing the thoughts that I buried in the sand

Pit, falls that I took, had their feet on my back

Been fighting alone, never heard of a pack

Lone wolf in the sheep herd, with a bagpack

Full of maps to the paths that his mind couldn't track

Had to step to the platform, rise to the task

Grow up at 11, start to wear his own mask

Keep up the façade of being all grown

To keep the inner child away from the dark

But what do you do when the light is a spark

In a room full of horrors, with his eyes on the mark

With the hands of his nightmares pulling him backwards

Never hear cries, no one hears him talk

You think that I'm joking, see me wearing smiles on my face

I been hoping someone takes these burdens off of my plate

You think life is breezy? Wear my shoes and walk a mile, ay

Feel the cement sinking, that's how I feel, call it child's play

Woah, yeah, child's play

I just call it child's play

You think that I'm joking, wear my shoes and walk a mile ay

Yeah, yeah, child's play

I just call it child's play

You think that I'm joking, grab your toys and call it child's play!

Child's play, far away

My memories in a different place

Times change, I remain

The kid who never grew up aged

I weighed, all my scales

To balance out my mental pain

High stakes, now I pray

To wake up to a better day

I've been looking forward, see me question all my paranoia

I've been turning corners, finding answers to all of my trauma

How is it that I'm mature, but a man who is like twice my age

Is throwing out more tantrums than a baby, is that just so normal?

Gotta wear a face if I'm out and about

With a mind full of doubts and heart with no house

A surprise in the guise of a baleful mouth

That I tout like a weapon when shit goes south

No matter what I do, I'm never enough

The kid in me is a demon, unloved

I'm torn between cutting myself slack

And holding on to the bridges that I burned to dust

Did I grow up too fast? Aging twice in a day

Will I ever get a chance, live my childhood, bane

Of a life unfulfilled, living every second

Like it's my last, what prideful shame

It's a curse, it's a blessing, it's a boon worth regretting

Was a fool with the way that I cooped up, baring

My heart to these pages, now I'm in four walls

Surrounded by torment, a beautiful ending

You think that I'm joking, see me wearing smiles on my face

I been hoping someone takes these burdens off of my plate

You think life is breezy? Wear my shoes and walk a mile, ay

Feel the cement sinking, that's how I feel, call it child's play

Woah, yeah, child's play

I just call it child's play

You think that I'm joking, wear my shoes and walk a mile ay

Yeah, yeah, child's play

I just call it child's play

You think that I'm joking, grab your toys and call it child's play!