Broken Steel

What do you think I'm always drunk?

And always so turned up?

Expectations of me lay so skin deep

As if I can take anything

But who's here to protect me?

Looking like the sun is going down

Think about the day I feel the pressure coming around

Better shut my mouth

If I say my feelings, then they'll say that I'm too loud

Blend in to the crowd

Once they'll see my color then they'll think that I'm too proud and now

They'll think I'm super tough and made of silver stuff

All while I'm falling apart

In the nighttime, I lose it for real (for real)

Watching as my cup overfills

Losing all my sense of what I feel

Yes, I guess, I'm broken steel

Maybe I'm just that soft

'Cause you're playing too rough

I am delicate with strings that I created

For a world that's always taking pieces of who I am

Without anything worth trading

Looking like the sun is going down

Think about the day I feel the pressure coming around

Better shut my mouth

If I say my feelings, then they'll say that I'm too loud

Blend in to the crowd

Once they'll see my color then they'll think that I'm too proud and now

They'll think I'm super tough and made of silver stuff

All while I'm falling apart

In the nighttime, I lose it for real

Watching as my cup overfills

Losing all my sense of what I feel

Yes, I guess, I'm broken steel

I hold the weight of the world on my hips

I must be strong, can't simp

I fed the culture off the tit

Created a wave, can't catch my drift

Hide my strenght

Talk my shit, they buy my lips

Cry my pain, they mosh to it (I hate y'all)

You wanna defund, I wanna defend

Not the same can't pretend

Mind of Orisha, skin of a heathen

I don't walk in rooms where I'm not greeted, yeah

Try me's treason, yeah, yeah

Smiles deceiving, yeah, yeah

Built this table where I'm seated

If they can manifest destiny, why can't you?

Need a minute to catch your breath, huh, I need two

Can no longer do the work that they won't do

My race is not my cape

Ho, give me space

I cry too

Broken steel

Broken steel